Entries Tagged wolves

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

The plan to enable the USFWS and move forward with its proposal to delist gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act by 2017 clears the U.S. House.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mishandling of the program to return endangered Mexican wolves dealt with cattle ranchers and compensation.

Anti-hunting groups’ attempt to pass two bills to permanently ban wolf in Minnesota comes up short when both bills expired.

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.

A Predator Xtreme reader bagged a big wolf in Montana but then faced the challenge of getting it out of the woods and back to his truck.

The groups said threats to wolves in Idaho and Montana have increased significantly as both states revised policies to aggressively reduce wolf numbers through sport hunting and killing wolves in hard-to-reach areas.

Idaho Fish and Game and USDA Wildlife Services recently completed wolf conservation in the Lolo zone of the state.

America isn't the only country with a wolf-hunting debate. In Sweden, there have been only three wolf hunts in 50 years while battling activists in court.

Wolves were hunted to extinction in Washington at the turn of the last century. But they started migrating into Washington from neighboring areas in the early 2000s and there are an estimated 16 wolf packs in the state.

Twenty- six biologists sent a letter to the secretary of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the Great Lakes gray wolves from the endangered species act list. They site scientific studies proving the wolf populations are recovered.

Environmental groups filed lawsuits Tuesday in Idaho and Washington, D.C., seeking to force federal officials to reveal reasons behind allowing a wolf- and coyote-shooting contest in parts of Idaho.