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File photo of gray wolves howling in British Columbia. (Pac9012/iStock/Getty Images)

U.S. lifts federal protections for gray wolf

By GFM Network News October 29, 2020

Reuters — The Trump administration in the U.S. said Thursday said it will lift Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf, arguing the species had been brought back successfully from the brink of extinction. The move gives states in the continuous United States the authority to manage their local wolf populations, including by allowing […] Read more

Wolves in Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert National Park in 2014. (Parks Canada photo, pc.gc.ca)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Sheep/Goats

Saskatchewan to thin out wolf pack along treeline

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 15, 2016

Aiming to prevent “wolf-livestock conflicts” in the region, Saskatchewan’s environment department will again offer a wolf hunting season along the provincial forest fringe starting Saturday. The wolf hunt, running from Oct. 15, 2016 through to March 31, 2017, is to be allowed in wildlife management zones 43 (Melfort, Tisdale), 47 (North Battleford, Turtleford), 48 (Preeceville, […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Washington begins killing wolf pack for preying on livestock

By GFM Network News August 29, 2016

Reuters — Wildlife agents authorized to eradicate a group of 11 wolves for repeated attacks on cattle in Washington state have hunted down and killed six animals from the condemned pack and are searching for the rest, a state game official said on Monday. State biologists fatally shot two members of the so-called Profanity Peak […] Read more

Calves on the Stump farm east of Sicamous, B.C. on feed in early October just prior to being shipped. Range for the cow herd is at the top and behind the mountain in the background. The country can grow grass, but it is also good habitat for wolves.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner

Wolves force rancher to change calving season

By Lee Hart January 28, 2015

For the past few years B.C. rancher Werner Stump has been calving out his commercial cow herd in November — mostly indoors — weaning calves in the spring, then putting them on grass and feed at home for the summer, with plans to market them in October — primarily because of wolves. Stump, whose family […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters, Sheep/Goats

French farmers cry wolf over sheep killings

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 27, 2014

Paris | Reuters — French farmers, who regularly bring livestock into Paris to punctuate their protests, drove some 250 sheep into the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on Thursday to highlight an unusual concern — that a growing wolf population is killing their flocks. Wolves were reintroduced to France in the 1990s under an international […] Read more

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U.S. lifts federal protections for gray wolf

Saskatchewan to thin out wolf pack along treeline

Washington begins killing wolf pack for preying on livestock

Wolves force rancher to change calving season

French farmers cry wolf over sheep killings

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