Here you will find news about wolves and wolf issues.

May 2nd, 2009.

Wolf Ranch Foundation is giving serious consideration to suing the Fish and Wildlife Service and Ken Salazar over delisting of wolves. No other agency or entity has used the arguments we believe strongly support keeping wolves delisted. Those arguments can be read on the Wolf Ranch Foundation blog if you are interested in reading them. But to summarize, the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan and other recovery plans fail to address the very reasons stated by the Fish and Wildlife Service for the decline of wolves in the first place - reasons which can only be addressed by scientifically created and monitored educational efforts. The simple fact is that wolves are in as much jeopardy now as they were before recovery began because people still misunderstand and are otherwise ignorant of wolves, their habitat and ecology, and their necessity in their former ranges.

Wolf Ranch Foundation needs your help. If you agree with these arguments, and that wolves should not be delisted because of the arguments we present in our blog, we ask for your help. We need an attorney to represent us though we plan to proceed "Pro Se" (without legal counsel - representing ourselves.) We also need money to fund the effort, both for filing fees, but also for travel funds. Our director is disabled and without income of any kind and donations have not been coming in because we haven't even been able to complete our application for non-profit tax-exempt status because of the situation with our director.

Please email us using our blog email form here if you would like to help.

Thank you on behalf of the wolves.

February 13th, 2006.

Wolf Ranch Foundation has officially commented on Idaho Fish and Game's proposal to remove 75% of wolves in a section of Northern Idaho. The comments can be found here.

March 3rd, 2006.

Idaho Fish and Game has decided to delay the proposal to kill wolves in Northern Idaho. Good news indeed, given the lack of credibility in the proposal.

March 22nd, 2006.

US Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to delist wolves for the Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment. Wolf Ranch Foundation has commented on this proposal. We feel that the proposal contains a fatal flaw: that the Fish and Wildlife Service has not done enough to ensure the future of wolves, as required by the ESA, because habitat loss has not been addressed. We feel that down the road, we will be facing the same problem, because habitat will become developed.

Please feel free to add your own comments on FWS's proposal to delist in the Great Lakes DPS.

Thank you!