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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.