2015 Wolf Year in Review

Rogue Pack pups, John Stephenson photo credit

Once again, I’ve compiled wolf news highlights for the past year. This is a challenging task and I’m sure there are many news worthy events that I’ve missed. Feel free to add events in the comment section. I appreciate your help! Thanks to Defenders of Wildlife, Oregon Wild and Wally Sykes for their posts on wolf news. This has made my work much easier. For an update specific to Great Lakes wolves read Rachel Tilseth’s post on her blog, Wolves of Douglas County.  Rick Lamplugh has also written a state by state review of wolves in the lower 48. With all of these offerings, readers have a  thorough update on what has been going on, and what is in the future, for Canis lupus.

January 2015: This month marked the twentieth anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho’s Frank Church River of No Return…