Tag: gray wolf

Tracking wolf populations presents challenges in the best of times. The carnivores are highly mobile and not exactly easy for wildlife biologists to handle. But researchers in Germany face an...

Deer may take advantage of burned forests in the summer, but they avoid burned areas with deep snow in the winter to reduce risk from the cougars that prey on...

An animal killed in a New York coyote hunt last year was not a coyote but a wolf, a recent DNA analysis found. The finding contradicts an initial conclusion that...

Oregon wildlife officials have identified a new group of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the state—the third known group in the northern Cascades. “Two wolves were first found in December...

The mountains and oceans surrounding Katmai National Park and Preserve keep it isolated from much of the rest of Alaska. The geography makes for a scenic view, but it also...

Bears and wolves coexist in both Yellowstone National Park and 5,000 miles across the globe in parts of Scandinavia. But researchers recently found that in both places, bears are changing...

Courtney Irvine had just spent 30 minutes digging up clumps of bison hair at a wolf kill site in Prince Alberta National Park in Saskatchewan when she heard the howls....

After decades of absence in Montana, wolves began dispersing southward from Canada and ultimately recolonized the state in the 1980s. Translocations into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in the mid-1990s...

Predators could play in important role in limiting the spread of chronic wasting disease among ungulates, but under what circumstances? Chronic wasting disease was first detected in the Greater Yellowstone...

Gray wolves are once again listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after a court decision. In the Feb. 10 decision, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White reversed the U.S....