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EDITORIAL: Let experts make wildlife decisions, not out-of-staters

By Wolves
...wolf hunt is feasible in Michigan's Upper Peninsula? A year ago, Michigan's lawmakers handed the responsibility of setting hunting seasons to the state's Department of Natural Resources and the Natural Resources Commission. These groups are made up of scientists who, to the best of their ability, attempt to manage Michigan's wildlife by opening up hunting seasons when animals are plentiful and curbing the number of permits handed out when numbers of various species are down....
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Plan Announced for 2014 Mexican Wolf Releases in Arizona

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PHOENIX -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) have initiated actions for the release of two Mexican wolves in Arizona to replace wolves illegally shot, as directed by the Arizona Game and Fish Commission in 2012 and to increase the genetic diversity of the wild population. The Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team (IFT) tasked with the day-to-day management of the wild population captured two wild males during the January winter population count. M1249 was taken to the Service's Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico and is paired with a captive female wolf. M1290 was paired with a captive female wolf and is being held in a release pen in the…
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More than 1,800 Copies of “The Real Wolf” Sold in First Week

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More than 1,800 Copies of "The Real Wolf" Sold in First Week BOZEMAN, MONTANA - After many years of research, hundreds of face-to-face and telephone interviews and thousands upon thousands of miles of travel, Texas attorney and Montana landowner Ted Lyon came to the conclusion that "something had to be done about the wolves in North America. They had to be managed by people who truly understood what was going on in the field, and those people needed to be respected and supported." That "something" was Lyon's first book, "The Real Wolf - The Science, Politics and Economics of Co-Existing with Wolves in Modern Times", which just sold more than 1,800 copies in its first week of distribution in the…
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BRIEF: Mexican wolf population grows

By Issues, Wolves
...endangered Mexican gray wolf population in New Mexico and Arizona grew for the fourth year running in 2013, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The latest end-of-year count showed a minimum of 83 wolves in the wild, up more than 10 percent from a count of 75 wolves in 2012. It's the greatest number of wolves counted since a program to reintroduce the species began in 1998, according to Benjamin Tuggle, southwest regional director of the FWS. "One hundred wolves is...
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