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The latest wildlife mystery in Nevada has been solved. DNA testing confirmed the results with 99.9% certainty, the Nevada Department of Wildlife announced this week. The sighting in northeast ...
The sighting in northeast Nevada near Merritt Mountain about 90 miles (144 kilometers) north of Elko initially spurred a great deal of excitement as it would have marked only the second time in a century that wolves were spotted in the state. The Nevada Department of Wildlife went to great lengths to set the record straight with extensive DNA ...
Additional wolves have been tracked entering the state, as the Cascade Range extends south from Oregon into northern California. Wolves are dispersing into the Sierra Nevada and other portions of their historic habitat. [57] Wolves from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have dispersed into Colorado several times in the 21st century. In 2021 ...
[128] [149] In 2014, there were around 83 Mexican wolves in the wild. [150] In 2021, there were an estimated 196 wolves in the wild, distributed across western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. [151] In March 2023, the Mexican wolf population numbered at least 241 individuals across New Mexico and Arizona. [152] As of March 2024, there were at ...
Nevada State Route 140 traverses the refuge from east to west and is the only paved road within the refuge. The nearest community of any size is Denio, Nevada, 14 miles from the refuge's eastern boundary. The nearest divided highway is Interstate 80 in Winnemucca, Nevada, approximately 100 miles to the south.
A newly identified pack of endangered gray wolves is roaming in California’s Sierra Nevada, at least 200 miles away from the nearest known pack, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to end federal protection for gray wolves, approving a bill that would remove them from the endangered species list across the lower 48 states. ... There were an ...
The southern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus youngi) is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf which was once distributed over southeastern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Nevada, Utah, western and central Colorado, northwestern Arizona (but north of the Grand Canyon), and northwestern New Mexico.