2025 Annual Report Dear Friends, Do wolves play? Yes they do — all the time! As we began our work with the Sawtooth Pack in the 1990s, we had the opportunity to spend time with...
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WOLVES AT A CROSSROADS USFWS Backs Away from National Wolf Recovery Plan Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced plans to develop the first-ever nationwide wolf recovery plan by December 2025. After...
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Thanks to everyone who spoke up against H.R. 4754, the U.S. House Interior and Environment Appropriations bill that includes Section 128, a rider that would strip Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves nationwide. House...
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Wolves face pivotal challenges nationwide as plans for a national recovery stall and reintroduction progress in Colorado is threatened. Your Giving Tuesday gift will be tripled to maximize support. Join us in honoring award-winning storytelling and help ensure wolves are protected, understood, and celebrated for generations to come.
On August 5, 2025, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by wrongly denying protections for Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves. The ruling calls for a...
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Colossal Biosciences Inc. drew widespread media attention by claiming to have “resurrected” the dire wolf, an Ice Age predator that went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago. However, despite the headlines, the reality is these animals...
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Wolves face pivotal challenges nationwide as plans for a national recovery stall and reintroduction progress in Colorado is threatened. Your Giving Tuesday gift will be tripled to maximize support. Join us in honoring award-winning storytelling and help ensure wolves are protected, understood, and celebrated for generations to come.
Wolves face pivotal challenges nationwide as plans for a national recovery stall and reintroduction progress in Colorado is threatened. Your Giving Tuesday gift will be tripled to maximize support. Join us in honoring award-winning storytelling and help ensure wolves are protected, understood, and celebrated for generations to come.
2024 Annual Report Dear Friends, Wolves are elusive, wary, and difficult to observe, making them one of the world’s least understood animals, and sadly, one of North America’s most persecuted. More than 30 years ago,...
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Wolves face pivotal challenges nationwide as plans for a national recovery stall and reintroduction progress in Colorado is threatened. Your Giving Tuesday gift will be tripled to maximize support. Join us in honoring award-winning storytelling and help ensure wolves are protected, understood, and celebrated for generations to come.
2023 Annual Report Dear Friends, The chatter of squirrels, interspersed by ravens squawking. The percussive thrum of woodpeckers, underlying the distinctive song of busy chickadees. And then the long, clear note of a wolf howl...
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Wolves face pivotal challenges nationwide as plans for a national recovery stall and reintroduction progress in Colorado is threatened. Your Giving Tuesday gift will be tripled to maximize support. Join us in honoring award-winning storytelling and help ensure wolves are protected, understood, and celebrated for generations to come.
Contact: Dutcher, Garrick For Immediate Release, Feb. 3, 2023 (208) 721-8020 gdutcher@livingwithwolves.org livingwithwolves.org What Happens to the Pack When a Wolf Dies? When People Kill Wolves, Packs Become Less Stable and Can Cease to Exist....
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After Montana and Idaho passed a slew of laws to encourage more wolf killing, Yellowstone’s wolves suffered the deadliest year since they were reintroduced nearly three decades ago. In the 2021-2022 hunting and trapping season,...
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2021 Annual Report Dear Friends, Twenty-five years ago, our time at wolf camp in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains came to an end. We never could have foreseen all that would unfold in the years that followed....
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Humankind is inclined to kill wolves, whenever they are perceived as a nuisance, with little regard for the consequences. There are ethical and ecological consequences in the way America’s recovering wolf population is being culled,...
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A wolf pack is an exceedingly complex social unit—an extended family of parents, offspring, siblings, aunts, uncles, and sometimes dispersers from other packs. There are old wolves that need to be cared for, pups that...
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