Colorado wolf depredation claims double state budget with more to come

Colorado Parks and Wildlife recommends over $700,000 in wolf depredation claims for 2025, doubling the state's budget.
Fort Collins Coloradoan

While state continues to hunt pack member, wolves kill two more cattle in Pitkin County

Colorado Parks and Wildlife continues efforts to lethally remove a second wolf from the pack. Tensions are rising between ranchers and wildlife officials over the repeated depredations. Some ranchers ...

Bills to ignore the Endangered Species Act so ranchers can kill endangered wolves advance

Republican bills that would allow the endangered Mexican gray wolf to be killed and no longer be considered an endangered ...
Capital Press

Oregon wolf cattle kills rise in 2025, but state lacks funding for proper payments

PENDLETON, Ore. — Wolves have killed far more cattle this year in Oregon, but the state hasn’t allocated funding to properly compensate ranchers, an expert said. The Oregon Legislature could erase the ...
Albuquerque Journal

US Fish and Wildlife kills Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico, plans to kill another after cattle loss

3: The number of Mexican gray wolves killed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this year. 286: The number of Mexican wolves in the wild at the end of 2024. 11%: The wolf population increase from 2023 ...
Merced Sun-Star

Wolf attacks on California cattle more than double despite state ‘strike team’

Wolf attacks on California cattle rose from 54 to 122 between June and Sept. State strike teams using nonlethal tools failed to curb escalating livestock losses. Ranchers face economic strain, ...