Wisconsin plans to ask wolf hunters and trappers to let a federal wildlife specialist watch them skin their kills this fall to determine whether hunters' dogs are attacking the animals in the woods.
Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say they are investigating a Missoula man's anti-wolf claim that he purposefully ran down a pair of wolves near the Idaho-Montana border.
Wildlife officials are reporting that a new wolf pack has been discovered in northeast Washington's Ferry County near Profanity Peak.
Montana law prohibits harassment of hunters, punishable by a fine of up to $500 and 30 days in prison.
The guesses in Leipsic, a village of about 2,000 people south of Toledo, are that the animal is a wolf, a large coyote or a wolf mix.
Officials with Michigan's Natural Resources Commission have confirmed there won't be a gray wolf hunt this year.
Lawmakers didn't have it take effect immediately. That means the effective date will be 90 days after the legislative session ends this fall, which rules out a wolf hunt until next year at the earliest.