It’s Wolf Awareness Week! 🐾 Each October, Wolf Awareness Week shines a light on one of the West’s most misunderstood and essential species. Wolves play a vital role in keeping our ecosystems balanced, shaping landscapes, supporting biodiversity, and reminding us of the wildness that still endures in our shared lands. Yet across much of the West, including right here in Wyoming, wolves continue to face outdated policies, persecution, and fear-driven management. This week exists because awareness

Today marks the start of Wyoming’s wolf hunting season. The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has recently increased the state’s trophy wolf quota from 38 to 44 animals in the Wolf Trophy Game Management Area, even though the most recent count tallied just 163 wolves, barely above the minimum population target. Within this management zone, wolves are treated as trophy game; outside of it, they are classified as “predatory animals,” meaning they can be killed year-round without a license, without

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