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Plants & Animals Mar 22, 2024

Feds want grizzly bears back in Washington's North Cascades

The National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published a final series of proposals Thursday calling for reintroducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades.

Plants & Animals Mar 18, 2024

Global wildlife study during COVID-19 shows rural animals are more sensitive to human activity

One of the largest studies on wildlife activity—involving more than 220 researchers, 163 mammal species and 5,000 camera traps worldwide—reveals that wild animals react differently to humans depending on where the animals ...

Ecology Mar 11, 2024

Step aside, wolves: The next Colorado wildlife reintroduction could be the elusive wolverine

Colorado could return another native carnivore to its mountains if state lawmakers pass a bill allowing for the reintroduction of wolverines.

Ecology Feb 29, 2024

Colorado's wolves roamed from northwesternmost county to across Continental Divide last month

Wolves from Colorado's new pack expanded their roaming range over the past 35 days to the state's northwesternmost county and across the Continental Divide, according to a map state officials released Feb. 28.

Ecology Feb 22, 2024

Can a lone wolf affect the environment? Red wolf researchers have surprising data

As Ron Sutherland guides his Subaru along the roads of Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, he keeps his eyes peeled.

Ecology Feb 14, 2024

Video of wolf killing northern Minnesota deer becomes political fodder

A lone gray wolf bolted past a logger last week, on the edge of a clear cut forest in northern St. Louis County. The wolf ran past a giant industrial saw and leaped over felled trees in pursuit of what was either a young ...

Ecology Feb 12, 2024

Wolves are back in Colorado's wilderness: Here's why that's great for Earth

For the first time in U.S. history, a federally listed endangered species has been reintroduced to the wild by the efforts of a lone state. Wolves in Colorado were not a mandate from Washington, D.C.; Coloradans voted for ...

Plants & Animals Feb 6, 2024

Apex predators not a quick fix for restoring ecosystems, 20-year study finds

A Colorado State University experiment spanning more than two decades has found that removal of apex predators from an ecosystem can create lasting changes that are not reversed after they return—at least, not for a very ...

Plants & Animals Feb 5, 2024

Wildlife officials aim to keep Colorado's wolves from meeting the endangered Mexican wolf

A Mexican gray wolf called Asha wandered hundreds of miles across Arizona and New Mexico searching for a mate—no easy task for one of the most endangered mammals in the United States.

Plants & Animals Feb 5, 2024

Idaho wolves will not return to endangered species list, Fish and Wildlife Service rules

Gray wolves in Idaho will not be relisted under the Endangered Species Act despite conservationist concerns, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in a ruling Friday.

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