wildlife

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Wyola man has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to illegally trafficking dead eagles. U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom sentenced 33-year-old Ernie Lemuel Stewart on Wednesday to 12 months and a day in prison and fined him $225...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government workers are set to begin hazing hundreds of wild bison back into Yellowstone National Park after capturing a small group of the animals for use in a birth control study. Montana state veterinarian Marty Zaluski says 10 bull bison were captured Tuesday near West Yellowstone...

Wildlife biologists engaged in the second year of a three-year elk study in the Bitterroot Valley plan to use a different style of electronic ear tag after more than half of them attached to newborn calves fell off prematurely.

Two golden eagles are dead from poisoning in Bear Creek, which is off the Fish Creek drainage west of Alberton. The Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks sent the remains to the Bozeman state lab, where the cause of death was determined to be poison ...

Montana wildlife officials say a caribou that was rescued in northwestern Montana last week has recovered and was released back into the wild in British Columbia, Canada.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has collected samples from fish in the Yellowstone River as part of a process to determine if the fishery was damaged by last year's oil spill and if Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay for restoration work.

Montana wildlife officials say they have captured a young male grizzly bear in a residential area north of Columbia Falls in northwestern Montana.

Ever wonder why our feathered friends get up so darn early? The answer might surprise you.

State and federal wildlife officials are considering ways to haze more than 160 bison back toward Yellowstone National Park.

A 3-year-old female grizzly bear was trapped and euthanized after being caught raiding garbage cans on the Idaho-Wyoming border.