Montana plans to allow more than 550 wolves to be killed this season. That’s over half the state’s population. According to Fish Wildlife and Park’s own forecasting report, this level of slaughter ...

BILLINGS - Public opinion on gray wolves remains sharply split as Montana and Idaho wildlife officials prepare to resume hunts for the predators after Congress removed their endangered species ...

BILLINGS - Federal wildlife managers killed nine wolves in just over a month for attacking or killing livestock in southwest Montana, including one that a state wolf official says was shot by mistake.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says his agency will start removing federal protections from gray wolves in Montana and Idaho by January, regardless of whether ...

In an Oct. 15 conversation with Montana Free Press, Fielder argued that state wildlife managers should be shooting for a statewide population of 400 wolves in accordance with the U.S. Fish and ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Snow crunched underfoot as Mark Hebblewhite scanned the ridgelines of Canada’s Banff National Park. It was 1995, and the young biologist, fresh out of undergrad, was ...

A hunter illegally killed a 'rising star' wolf and threw away its GPS collar.

In southwest Montana, just outside of Yellowstone National Park, range rider and rancher Hilary Zaranek faces predators more formidable than wolves. “Between 2005 and 2015, grizzlies really came onto ...

Efforts to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list across most of the lower 48 states hit a hurdle yesterday. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service panel said the scientific research is ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Attorneys for Montana and a coalition of conservation groups sparred in court Friday over whether ...

Hunters in Montana had shot more than 160 gray wolves as the season came to a close across most of the state Wednesday - a sharp increase from the last hunt in 2009 but still short of the state's ...