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.
The livestock were attacked by a male wolf tagged as OR25. The wolf left the Imnaha Pack in March and eventually settled northeast of Chiloquin.
State and federal managers have reduced the combined limit for the federal subsistence and state general hunts to nine wolves in SE Alaska.
Lance Verhulst isn't saying where he shot the video because he doesn't want people in his elk-hunting spot. officials are confident the animal is a wolf.
The latest population surveys show no significant change in Minnesota's wolf population during the past three winters. Although the new estimate of 2,221 wolves is lower than the previous winter's 2,423.
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.