The quota for harvesting wolves near Yellowstone National Park was met and exceeded, ending the season.

Montana recently rejected a plan to keep elk that are within a designated brucellosis surveillance area into contact with other groups from outside the area.

Montana wildlife regulators rejected a proposal to double the allowance of wolves that can be hunted or trapped near Yellowstone.

Authorities are looking for a grizzly in Montana's Flathead National Forest after it killed a mountain biker earlier this week.

Complaints by outfitters and hunters over predators impact on elk have prompted Montana officials to triple gray wolf harvest.

Animal right group WildEarth Guardians said they will seek a court order halting a United States government program that allows tens of thousands of pelts from bobcats and a small number of gray wolves to be exported annually for sale on the international fur market.

Yellowstone National Park proposes to kill roughly 1,000 wild bison this winter, mostly calves and females, as officials seek to reduce the animals' annual migration into Montana.

At the end of September, Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks had issued 1,747 roadkill salvage permits over the last two years to people all over the state who found an edible deer, moose, elk or antelope.