Top 7 Most Unexpected Animals Seen on the Slopes Like any outdoor activity humans participle in, from time to time we tend to come in contact with the original inhabitants of the area we choose to make our playground. Many ski resorts are on national forests, and in those dense, often remote areas one can run into some pretty striking wildlife. In fact, Colorado’s White River National Forest is […] Brains Joseph Kaufmann | July 9, 2025 0 Comments
Colorado Parks & Wildlife Officials Kill Wolf After Numerous Livestock Attacks in Pitkin County, CO Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials killed a gray wolf in Pitkin County on Thursday evening, May 29, after confirming a series of livestock attacks that met the state’s threshold for “chronic depredation.” The wolf, known as 2405, belonged to the Copper Creek Pack and was killed and removed on May 29 following four separate attacks between May 17 and […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 30, 2025 2 Comments
Wolf Chased on Ski Slope at Italian Ski Resort, Culprit Wanted by Police Allegations of animal abuse have surfaced in Italy, following a disturbing incident where a skier chased a wolf on the slopes in the Val di Fiemme ski area and subsequently shared the video on social media. An official complaint was filed by the National Animal Protection Authority (‘ENPA’), alleging that the unidentified individual(s) was endangering the protected animal. The complaint […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | February 20, 2024 0 Comments
New Pack of Gray Wolves Emerges in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California 100 years ago, gray wolves roamed most of North America. However, back in the 1920s, despite being native to the area gray wolves were hunted and trapped to extinction. Now the wolves have slowly been making a comeback to several western states. In California specifically, it has only been in the past decade or so that a few gray wolves […] Industry News Brent Glogau | August 15, 2023 1 Comment
Does Colorado Have its First Wild Wolf Pups Since the 1940s? Earlier this year, two wolves were spotted in Northern Colorado. They were thought to be confirmed bachelors wandering south from Wyoming and were given the numbers M2101 and M1084. Related: Gray Wolves to be Reintroduced to Colorado After Proposition 114 Gains Narrow Victory Now Colorado Parks and Wildlife has determined that one of the wolves is a female and that […] SnowBrains | May 27, 2021 1 Comment
VIDEO: First Ever Camera Collar Footage From a Wild Wolf [arve url="https://youtu.be/8JxN33fl6bs"] SnowBrains | April 19, 2021 Likes Tweets 2 Comments
Wolf Seen Near Yosemite, CA for the First Time in Nearly 100 Years A young wolf, traveling south from Oregon, has been spotted in California’s Mono County, just to the east of Yosemite, KQED reported last week. Scientists monitored the wolf, nicknamed OR-93, via a tracking collar and watched as he journeyed south into California in what they believe was a search for new territory or a potential mate. This is the furthest […] Anson Brown | March 11, 2021 2 Comments
US Wildlife Officials Aiming to Remove Wolf Protections in 2020 The Trump administration plans to eliminate endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the country by the end of 2020, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. “We’re working hard to have this done by the end of the year and I’d say it’s very imminent,” Aurelia Skipwith told The Associated Press in a […] SnowBrains | September 1, 2020 1 Comment
Grey Wolf Pup Spotted in Northwestern Colorado – Are Wolves in CO Making a Comeback? Believe it or not, wolves have been a bit of a hot topic in Colorado politics. This upcoming November, Coloradoans will vote on whether or not wolves should be intentionally reintroduced into Colorado after humans eradicated them from the state in the 1940s. Related: Wolves Beat Voters to the Punch, Reintroduce Themselves in Colorado Whether the vote passes or not, […] Spencer Cox | August 30, 2020 1 Comment
New Laws to Allow Hunting/Trapping of Bear Cubs and Wolf Pups in Alaskan Nature Preserves New rules established by the National Park Service (NPS) will allow for previously banned hunting and trapping techniques that will now be permitted in ten national preserves in Alaska. Although such methods were previously permitted on state lands, these new rules will permit hunters and trappers in Alaskan National Parks and nature preserves to now trap bears with human food […] Brains Galen Carrico | August 17, 2020 3 Comments
Archaeological Evidence and DNA Show the Ancient Roots of Arctic Sled Dogs A new genetic study published in ScienceMag shows that ancestors of modern sled dogs have worked and lived with humans for over 9,500 years. Researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen applied a genomic approach to investigate modern and ancient arctic dogs associating through archaeological evidence of sled technology and a 33,000-year-old Siberian Wolf. […] Brains Sebastian Opazo | July 8, 2020 0 Comments
Lassen, CA Wolf Pack Produces Five New Pups The alpha-female of the solitary Californian wolf pack, Lassen Pack, has emerged with 5 new pups on the east side of Lassen National Park. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife was able to trap her and give her a new tracking collar, for the one she was wearing, had run out of battery back in November. It was unknown […] Elliot Levey | July 7, 2020 6 Comments
Wife of Banff Wolf Attack Victim Posts Emotional Facebook Post: ‘It Was Like Something Out Of a Horror Movie’ More terrifying details of the wolf attack in Banff National Park last Friday have emerged, with the wife of the man attacked describing what she saw from within the tent on that night. The wolf, which was later found and euthanized, tried to drag Matt Rispoli of New Jersey out of his tent that he occupied with his wife and two […] SnowBrains | August 14, 2019 0 Comments
Camper Bitten by Wolf in Rare Attack in Banff National Park, Canada | Wolf Euthanized A wolf that attacked a tent and injured a camper has been killed and the campground has been closed after a rare incident took place in Banff National Park, officials say. Related: VIDEO: 3 Pups Belonging to California’s Only Known Wolf Pack Caught on Camera Around 1 am on Friday, Parks Canada received a report of an attack at Rampart Creek Campground off the Icefields Parkway, […] SnowBrains | August 13, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: 3 Pups Belonging to California’s Only Known Wolf Pack Caught on Camera [arve url="https://youtu.be/XhBOTp1IyI0"] SnowBrains | August 7, 2019 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
Washington Officials Authorize Euthanizing Wolf Pack Members Killing Cattle The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on July 10 authorized killing some members of a wolf pack that are preying on cattle in the northeastern corner of the state. Agency director Kelly Susewind said the state will kill part of the OPT pack, for the second year in a row, in an effort to change the behavior of the pack. […] SnowBrains | July 19, 2019 0 Comments
First Wolf Sighting in Colorado Since 2015 Confirmed as Dispersing Male from Wyoming Pack The gray wolf sighted this week in northern Colorado originally came from Wyoming and is a dispersing male from the state’s Snake River pack, Wyoming Game and Fish officials have confirmed. The wolf was seen in Jackson County and also Grand County. The creature was wearing a radio collar and was last recorded Feb. 12 around South Pass in west-central […] SnowBrains | July 11, 2019 0 Comments
Workers Who Rescued a Dog From an Icy River Got a Shock When They Found Out it Was a Wolf A group of Estonian workers who rushed to rescue a dog trapped in a freezing river got a shock once they got the animal to the medical center. Turns out they had, in fact, been transporting a wild wolf in their car. Related: VIDEO: Enormous Wolf Attacks Man’s Dog in Saskatchewan, Canada The men were working on the Sindi dam on the […] SnowBrains | March 1, 2019 0 Comments
Beloved Yellowstone Wolf Shot Dead by Trophy Hunter One of Yellowstone National Park’s most popular wolves has been shot dead by a trophy hunter. Spitfire, a 7-year-old female wolf, known to scientists as Lamar Canyon Wolf Pack member 926F, was killed legally a few miles outside a park entrance in Montana, according to a Facebook post from animal rights group Wolves of the Rockies. You might also like: Oregon […] SnowBrains | December 4, 2018 2 Comments
VIDEO: Enormous Wolf Attacks Man’s Dog in Saskatchewan, Canada [arve url="https://youtu.be/Qjxcjq0t3iU"] SnowBrains | October 17, 2018 54 Likes 2 Tweets 0 Comments
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