“Alpha male wolf plays with and regurgitates food for 4 pups in a high density brown bear (grizzly) feeding area of the Katmai coast, Alaska. filmed by naturalist guide Brad Josephs”
Looks like dad has his hands full with four hungry pups. Watch how he regurgitates food for them as they lick his mouth. They just can’t get enough. He’s one dedicated alpha male and there are brown bears around too.
Wolves are the parents, the mothers, the fathers, the brothers and sisters that we always hoped we could be….Ed Bangs, Former Wolf Recovery Coordinator, USFWS
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Video: YouTube Courtesy Brad Josephs
Photo: Screen Grab Courtesy Brad Josephs
Posted in: Coastal gray wolves, Brown Bears, Biodiversity
Tags: wolf pups, wolf dad feeds pups, Katmai Coast Alaska, Coastal wolves, Coastal brown bears, biodiversity, Brad Josephs
Time for an uplifting video of a wolf pack caring for their week old pups. They have their hands full! Momma wolf is fighting a losing battle trying to keep them in the den…lol
Enjoy! ❤
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Video: Courtesy YouTube greenbunting
Posted in: gray wolf pups, biodiversity
Tags: wolf pups, wolf pack, caring for tiny pups, beautiful wolves
This was first posted in 2010. Wildlife Services continued to kill wolves even though 500 wolves died in the Northern Rockies in 2009, due to the first wolf hunts held in Montana and Idaho after the Obama admin. stripped them of their ESA protections. Along with poaching and Wildlife Services, wolves continued to die in 2010 after the hunts were over. This is just a fraction of the damage Montana and Idaho have inflicted on wolves over the last five years. Read it and weep, then get active. There’s a time to write about tragedy and a time to do something about it. How many more years will I have to report about dead wolves? It’s burning a hole in my soul.
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May 5, 2010
Wolf killing season continues even though the “legal hunts” are over.
Wildlife Services and Montana FWP are gunning for four wolf packs. The Trapper Peak Pack, Miner Lakes Pack, Bender Pack and any remaining wolves from the Battlefield Pack.
Do any of these packs have pups? It’s pup season and babies are just weeks old, totally dependent on their mothers to survive. Is this how Montana FWP intends to further reduce the wolf population by wiping out wolf pups when they kill their parents? The situation is disgusting to say the least. What happens to these pups when their parents are killed. They are BABIES! Do they leave them for dead, kill them along with the other members of the pack? When is this going to end?
The Montana Wildlife Services wolf extermination squad continue to go after wolves for livestock depredation even though wolf predation is a tiny figure in overall cattle deaths. Let’s ask ranchers how many cows they lose to disease, weather, theft and reproductive issues? They don’t want to talk about that because they don’t get reimbursed for cows killed by lighting.
People are outraged by the continued wolf killing. And the ranchers just sit back and let the feds take care of “the problem” for them. Why do Montanans owe the ranchers anything? It’s their cattle. Hire range riders, use electrified fladry, herders, guard dogs, what ever you have to do but why are federal tax dollars being used to kill wolves for agribusiness? It’s a subsidy for ranching pure and simple.
Yes, Montana Wildlife Services has been very busy and it’s only four months into the 2010. Read it and weep.
Stats From Montana FWP Weekly Wolf Reports:
Horse Prairie Pack….12/31 and 1/5 two wolves killed, 3/31 WS authorized to remove entire pack, 4/1, WS authorized to remove remaining two wolves, 4/21 collared female killed. (breeding pair at end of 2009)
Miner Lakes Pack 1/8 two wolves killed, 2/15 authorized to remove entire pack.
Bender Pack 1/14 one wolf killed, 1/20 one wolf killed, 3/11 WS gunning for last wolf in this pack
Fishtrap Pack 2/8 authorized to remove 1/2 the pack (up to four wolves), 4/22 WS killed wolf NW221F who was the last collared wolf remaining (was breeding pair end of 2009)
Camas Prairie Pack 2/4 two wolves killed, 2/17 one wolf killed, 4/21 one wolf killed, 4/22 killed remaining collared wolf
Candy Mountain Pack 4/1 Authorized to kill two wolves (breeding pair end of 2009)
Dry Forks Pack 4/6 Removing wolves and collaring wolves, 4/7 one wolf killed, possibly two. (breeding pair end of 2009)
Ninemile Pack 3/23 one wolf shot from helicopter (breeding pair end of 2009)
Silcox Pack 3/ 5 one pup killed(breeding pair end of 2009)
Superior Pack 4/20 two wolves killed, 4/21 alpha male killed which removed the entire pack ( six wolves killed in total) (was breeding pair end of 2009)
Cedar Creek Pack 4/22 WS services given permission to kill five wolves from this pack, WS has killed three of those wolves
Trapper Peak Pack: alpha male and another wolf killed 2009, 4/13 (aprox date) yearling wolf shot by rancher, 4/23 WS authorized to kill entire pack
28 wolves killed in control since the beginning of the year
The Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report has been released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. So far the report says there have been 28 wolves killed for 14 livestock animals taken. This doesn’t make sense when you consider that last month’s depredation numbers were the same as this month’s yet they report that 8 calves were taken and 10 wolves killed this month. Something didn’t get updated properly.
It also notes that “Additional capture efforts are planned through April.” This is noteworthy since wolves den in April. Does this mean that they have been capturing pregnant females just before denning? Usually ground trapping doesn’t occur when there is a chance of freezing temperatures due to the possibility of injury to the wolves’ feet so presumably capturing refers to aerial darting of wolves.
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This was not the purpose of the reintroduction.
Nobody envisioned wolves would be continually killed by the state for agribusiness. Why would you reintroduce wolves in the West only to send them down the road to extinction, once again? This is slaughter pure and simple and it’s WRONG.
And again, what about the newly born pups? They are doomed along with their parents!
Wildlife officials target 3 wolf packs for attacks on stock in Big Hole Valley
By the Associated Press | Posted: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:47 pm
Lastly, please stop eating beef!! It’s a cruel industry and will help save wolves. Watch Earthlings and Food, Inc. to see how much ranchers care about their cows and sheep. It will make you sick!
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Helicopter Photo: Courtesy AGRO, James Balog
Posted in: Wolf Wars, Wildlife Services War on Wildlife, Howling For Justice
Tags: wolf pups, wolf slaughter, wolf persecution, killing wolves for agribusiness
How wonderful! There hasn’t been a breeding pair of wolves in the Oregon Cascades since the 1940’s. Congrats OR7, your indomitable spirit and determination to find a mate and start a family has come true. AND you made history once again by being the first wolves to breed in the Oregon Cascades in over seventy years!
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Famous Oregon wolf that trekked to California has puppies
By Shelby Sebens
PORTLAND Ore.Wed Jun 4, 2014 10:02pm EDT
(Reuters) – An Oregon gray wolf famous for roaming in and out of California in search of a mate sired at least two pups, playing his part in the first known wolf breeding in the Cascade Mountain Range within Oregon since the 1940s, officials said on Wednesday.
OR-7, a wolf so named as he was the seventh of his species ever collared in Oregon with a tracking device, made headlines in December 2011 when he turned up in northern California, becoming the first wild specimen confirmed in the Golden state in 87 years.
Since March 2013, OR-7 has spent most of his time in the Cascade Range of southwestern Oregon, but was believed to have returned to California twice earlier this year.
Last month, Oregon wildlife officials said they believed the gray wolf may have found a mate, and on Wednesday they said biologists confirmed the pair produced offspring in the Cascade Range, with two pups spotted on camera in a den.
John Stephenson, wolf biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said that since April, OR-7 has been traveling to find food and returning to the den.
“Each day he comes back to the spot, so he’s been coming back to the den area on a daily basis for a month and half,” Stephenson said. “He’s definitely taking care of the pups.”
Wolves in Oregon and elsewhere across the continental United States were hunted to extinction decades ago. But they were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies in the 1990s, and some later migrated to the state from Idaho.
Oregon’s wolf population is now estimated to number more than 60 animals.
Officials say OR-7 likely has more pups than the two that were spotted, as gray wolves typically breed four to six puppies in a litter.
“This is very exciting news,” Paul Henson, state supervisor of the Oregon office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a statement. “It continues to illustrate that gray wolves are being recovered.”
OR-7 was born into northeastern Oregon’s Imnaha wolf pack in April 2009.
Wolves throughout Oregon are protected by the state Endangered Species Act.
In eastern Oregon, they lost their federally protected status in 2011 when Congress lifted Endangered Species Act safeguards for various wolf populations in several states, but protections have remained in place for any animals in the western two-thirds of Oregon.
By coincidence on Wednesday, the California Fish and Game Commission formally voted to list the gray wolf as an endangered species under that state’s wildlife protection laws.
August 2009, Lookout Pack Howling in the Methow Valley
Just a few short years ago wildlife advocates were celebrating the return of canis lupus to Washington state, after a seventy year absence. The Lookout Pack was formed, they made the Methow Valley their home. The wolf had come back to Washington!!
But something went terribly wrong. In 2008 a woman attempted to FedEx a dripping, bloody box containing a wolf pelt. Last year the alpha female of the Lookout Pack disappeared.
Now some members of a Washington state family have been indicted, by a federal grand jury, for poaching endangered wolves!!
Members of a Methow Valley ranching family have been charged in federal court in the killing of several endangered gray wolves and the attempt to illegally mail at least one of the pelts to Canada in a bloody box.
Originally published June 8, 2011 at 8:54 PM | Page modified June 9, 2011 at 6:24 AM
Members of a Methow Valley ranching family have been charged in the killing of several endangered gray wolves and the attempt to illegally mail at least one of the pelts to Canada in a bloody box.
A federal grand jury Tuesday handed up a 12-count indictment that accuses Bill White and his son Tom White, of the Twisp area in Okanogan County, of poaching at least two wolves and then conspiring with Tom’s wife, Erin White, to smuggle one of the pelts to an acquaintance in Alberta. The men may have killed another three of the endangered species, according to the indictment.
Activists pushing to see wolf populations restored in Washington applauded the charges.
“People who kill wolves are flat out poachers — people with disrespect for the law and for wildlife,” said Mitch Friedman, of Conservation Northwest. “It’s critical that we come down on them hard, and I’m glad to see that we are.”
The indictment is the first to come after a rash of suspicious wolf deaths, many involving a group of animals known as the Lookout Pack, which took up residence in the Methow Valley in 2008.
One skinned gray-wolf carcass was found dumped by the roadside in Skagit County with a bullet hole in it. Meanwhile, the Lookout Pack’s lone breeding female disappeared last year. She was wearing a radio collar that should have changed signals if she’d simply died. Instead it went silent, leaving state biologists to suspect it had been destroyed by a gunshot. She disappeared more than a year after federal agents began investigating the Whites.
Canis lupus was extirpated from the American West more than 70 years ago, but the animals were reintroduced in Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1995. Since then, wolves from there and from British Columbia have begun recolonizing Washington, thrilling conservationists and frustrating some livestock owners who fear wolves may decimate their herds of cows and sheep.
The White case surfaced in late 2008, when a woman walked into a FedEx office in Omak and attempted to mail what she said was a rug. The shipping agent refused to mail the package after he saw it was leaking blood. Omak police were called, discovered the pelt and sent it to wildlife agents who confirmed it was from a wolf, according to a search-warrant affidavit.
Investigators used security cameras to trace the woman and her car to the Whites’ house. During a search of two homes occupied by the Whites near Lookout Mountain, agents seized a computer that included photos of Tom White posing with a large wolf with a damaged paw, the search-warrant affidavit said.
The indictment describes the case against the White family like this:
In late 2007, after reports of wolves began to surface in Eastern Washington, Bill White emailed a relative in Alaska asking for help in finding someone who knew how to snare wolves in a trap. Six weeks later he emailed someone that he and others were hunting three wolves near his home.
Tom White allegedly killed one wolf in mid-May 2008 and another in December, one of which he skinned, the indictment says. His father allegedly contacted a friend in Alberta and offered him “a really big coyote” for tanning.
Just before Christmas, according to the indictment, Erin White drove the pelt to the shipping agent in Omak and used a false name to attempt to send it to Canada.
Later, in January 2009, Bill White again sent an email to someone claiming he and others had shot two wolves in a group of nine and one wolf in a group of three. It’s not clear whether he was claiming they had shot three more wolves, or three total. That same month, the indictment alleges, Bill White also illegally applied pesticides in a manner intended to kill wolves.
Bill White faces nine felony counts, including conspiracy and obstruction charges. If convicted, the combined charges could result in decades in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
If Tom White is convicted, he faces up to eight years in prison, while a conviction for his wife could lead to a sentence of more than 10 years.
Wolf killing season continues even though the “legal hunts” are over.
Wildlife Services and Montana FWP are gunning for four wolf packs. The Trapper Peak Pack, Miner Lakes Pack, Bender Pack and any remaining wolves from the Battlefield Pack.
Do any of these packs have pups? It’s pup season and babies are just weeks old, totally dependent on their mothers to survive. Is this how Montana FWP intends to further reduce the wolf population by wiping out wolf pups when they kill their parents? The situation is disgusting to say the least. What happens to these pups when their parents are killed. They are BABIES! Do they leave them for dead, kill them along with the other members of the pack? When is this going to end?
The Montana Wildlife Services wolf extermination squad continue to go after wolves for livestock depredation even though wolf predation is a tiny figure in overall cattle deaths. Let’s ask ranchers how many cows they lose to disease, weather, theft and reproductive issues? They don’t want to talk about that because they don’t get reimbursed for cows killed by lighting.
People are outraged by the continued wolf killing. And the ranchers just sit back and let the feds take care of “the problem” for them. Why do Montanans owe the ranchers anything? It’s their cattle. Hire range riders, use electrified flagery, herders, guard dogs, what ever you have to do but why are federal tax dollars being used to kill wolves for agribusiness? It’s a subsidy for ranching pure and simple.
Yes, Montana Wildlife Services has been very busy and it’s only four months into the 2010. Read it and weep.
Stats From Montana FWP Weekly Wolf Reports:
Horse Prairie Pack….12/31 and 1/5 two wolves killed, 3/31 WS authorized to remove entire pack, 4/1, WS authorized to remove remaining two wolves, 4/21 collared female killed. (breeding pair at end of 2009)
Miner Lakes Pack 1/8 two wolves killed, 2/15 authorized to remove entire pack.
Bender Pack 1/14 one wolf killed, 1/20 one wolf killed, 3/11 WS gunning for last wolf in this pack
Fishtrap Pack 2/8 authorized to remove 1/2 the pack (up to four wolves), 4/22 WS killed wolf NW221F who was the last collared wolf remaining (was breeding pair end of 2009)
Camas Prairie Pack 2/4 two wolves killed, 2/17 one wolf killed, 4/21 one wolf killed, 4/22 killed remaining collared wolf
Candy Mountain Pack 4/1 Authorized to kill two wolves (breeding pair end of 2009)
Dry Forks Pack 4/6 Removing wolves and collaring wolves, 4/7 one wolf killed, possibly two. (breeding pair end of 2009)
Ninemile Pack 3/23 one wolf shot from helicopter (breeding pair end of 2009)
Silcox Pack 3/ 5 one pup killed(breeding pair end of 2009)
Superior Pack 4/20 two wolves killed, 4/21 alpha male killed which removed the entire pack ( six wolves killed in total) (was breeding pair end of 2009)
Cedar Creek Pack 4/22 WS services given permission to kill five wolves from this pack, WS has killed three of those wolves
Trapper Peak Pack: alpha male and another wolf killed 2009, 4/13 (aprox date) yearling wolf shot by rancher, 4/23 WS authorized to kill entire pack
28 wolves killed in control since the beginning of the year
The Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report has been released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. So far the report says there have been 28 wolves killed for 14 livestock animals taken. This doesn’t make sense when you consider that last month’s depredation numbers were the same as this month’s yet they report that 8 calves were taken and 10 wolves killed this month. Something didn’t get updated properly.
It also notes that “Additional capture efforts are planned through April.” This is noteworthy since wolves den in April. Does this mean that they have been capturing pregnant females just before denning? Usually ground trapping doesn’t occur when there is a chance of freezing temperatures due to the possibility of injury to the wolves’ feet so presumably capturing refers to aerial darting of wolves.
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This was not the purpose of the reintroduction.
Nobody envisioned wolves would be continually killed by the state for agribusiness. Why would you reintroduce wolves in the West only to to send them down the road to extinction, once again? This is slaughter pure and simple and it’s WRONG.
And again, what about the newly born pups? They are doomed along with their parents!
This is the heartbreak wolf advocates are faced with right before MOTHERS DAY!! Wolves are continuing to be slaughtered!
Wildlife officials target 3 wolf packs for attacks on stock in Big Hole Valley
By the Associated Press | Posted: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:47 pm
Lastly, please stop eating beef!! It’s a cruel industry and will help save wolves. Watch Earthlings and Food, Inc. to see how much ranchers care about their cows and sheep. It will make you sick!
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Helicopter Photo: Courtesy AGRO, James Balog
Posted in: Wolf Wars, Wildlife Services War on Wildlife, Howling For Justice
Tags: wolf pups, wolf slaughter, wolf persecution, killing wolves for agribusiness
This blog is dedicated to the memory of Wolf 253, the beloved Yellowstone Druid wolf named Limpy, who was shot and killed in March 08, on the very day ESA protections were lifted for the gray wolf, by the then Bush Administration.
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