Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gray wolves ( Photo by Steve Jurvetson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services | Creative Commons). A prediction, several years in ...

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 ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has closed the wolf hunting and trapping season in southwestern Montana’s Region 3 after 55 wolves were killed. The quota was 52. So far this year, 224 wolves ...

A Helena judge has allowed the wolf hunting and trapping regulations the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted earlier this year to stand, despite flagging “serious concerns” about the state’s ...

In the rugged backcountry of Montana, where ranchers battle to protect their livestock and hunters chase the thrill of the chase, a heated decision just shook things up. The state's Fish and Wildlife ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana stands at a defining crossroads — one that will determine the future of its wildlife and ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montanans are increasingly tolerant of wolves, according to newly released research from the University of Montana’s Human Dimensions Lab and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The ...

A 2-year-old wolf that was beloved by wildlife aficionados and tracked by researchers in Yellowstone National Park has been killed by a Montana hunter. Wolf 1479F, part of the Junction Butte Pack, was ...

HELENA, Mont.HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge in Montana has significantly shortened the state’s wolf trapping season to protect grizzly bears that have not yet begun hibernating from being injured by ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - Responsibility for managing gray wolves in Montana could be transferred from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the state early next year, even before the predator loses its ...

“What we learned was that the adults did not stay together and pups were abandoned and left to die,” says federal official in charge of wolf translocations in Montana in the 1990s Colorado Parks and ...