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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.

A proposal to lift federal protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. suffered a significant setback.

The number of wolves killed because they were preying on livestock or pets fell from 295 in 2012 to 127 last year.

Minnesota's wolf season has closed more than a month early.

Michigan authorities say at least 20 wolves have been killed in the Upper Peninsula during the state's first wolf hunt in decades.

Michigan is the sixth state to authorize wolf hunting following the removal of federal protections in recent years, a testament to the strong comeback of a species that was close to eradication in the lower 48 states.

Minnesota hunters killed around 45 wolves since the opening of its second wolf-hunting season.

Hunters have snapped up most of the licenses for Michigan's first wolf hunt in November.

From the northern Rockies to the Great Lakes region, wolves have flourished at the expense of shrinking big-game herds, which are largely supported and funded by hunters.