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Officials set up remote trail cameras after receiving reports earlier this year of a large, dark-colored canid, an animal from the family that includes wolves, foxes, coyotes, jackals and dogs.

The season when wolves come into conflict with livestock in Eastern Washington has arrived, but the state Department of Fish and Wildlife is ready.

Two wolf attacks in eastern Oregon have left three sheep, one dog and one calf dead.

The wolf had left the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, where fewer than 100 of the wolves live as an experimental effort to preserve the rare species in the wild. The law allows landowners to kill wolves persistently living on their property.

A 2-year-old male gray wolf is one of two to make its way into the county from a disbursed Imnaha Pack in northeastern Oregon.

Hunting season for wolves ended on March 15. The penalty for killing a wolf out of season is a citation and $1,000 in restitution.

A Wyoming hunter sets his sights on calling in a Yellowstone gray wolf. Many miles and hours on horseback later, he’s staring down the barrel at an alpha dog in hot pursuit of his location.

A high population of wolves and the whims of the courts and public opinion have created an environment where nobody wins — especially the wolves.

When Idaho launched its first wolf season in 2009, Stan Burt was determined to become a wolf hunter. His hard work paid off when he was charged by a pack of wolves this past fall! Here’s his story.

In Wisconsin hunters can use hounds to hunt wolves. Here’s a look at this unique method of wolf hunting.

Idaho officials say 19 wolves have been killed in northern Idaho in an effort to reduce wolf numbers and increase the elk population.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is inviting public feedback on an updated plan for managing the state's gray wolves.

Trappers in Montana have killed 77 gray wolves and hunters have shot 127 so far this winter, a total of 204 animals, as the season for the animals nears its end.

North Carolina wildlife officials are asking the federal government to declare red wolves extinct in the wild and end three decades of efforts to reintroduce the endangered species in the state.

Utah wildlife officials say a coyote hunter accidentally shot and killed a federally-protected gray wolf.

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.

Vote makes moot two statewide votes forced by animal rights organizations that oppose hunting the the resurgent gray wolf in the Upper Peninsula.

Michigan lawmakers are expected to pass a law to keep intact the state's power to allow wolf hunts.

Minnesota will issue 500 more wolf licenses this year and allow hunters and trappers to kill 30 more wolves than last year's target.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to review the red wolf program, raising the possibility that the 27-year experiment to restore the rare predators in eastern North Carolina may come to an end.

Federal officials say a wolf killed a border collie herding sheep in the Boise foothills.

The superintendent of Isle Royale National Park says officials have decided not to bring more wolves to the Lake Superior island chain for now to prevent their dwindling population from dying out.

A federal judge is considering whether to block hunters from targeting coyotes in five North Carolina counties where endangered red wolves are being shot and killed by mistake.