Wolves

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks meets with County Commissioners about managing predator populations.

Despite the state's best efforts, Montana has more wolves

Wolf season ended yesterday for Montana and along with the last day of hunting came the news that Montana failed to meet its wolf hunt quota.

Montana officials are watching Idaho closely as  trapping season for wolves started yesterday.  Snares and leg-holds are being set in the first trapping season since wolves were re-introduced. Defenders of  Wildlife spokesman Daniel Gaillard says they are concerned that the traps will catch species other than wolves...

The Colville Indian Tribes are worried that the state's proposed wolf management plan may hurt subsistence hunting by its members. The tribes told members of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Thursday that a plan to restore at least five breeding pairs of wolves in Eastern Washington has the potential to reduce herds of elk, deer and moose on its reservation...

A federal appeals court has denied a request by environmental groups to halt wolf hunts that are scheduled to begin next week in Idaho and Montana. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied the request by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other groups...

A Hamilton-area rancher has shot three wolves on his property over the past five weeks. Julie Schram says her husband, Dave, shot and killed two wolves Monday morning within 300 yards of their house and just a few feet from where a group of goats and sheep were standing...

Environmentalists are appealing a judge's decision that upheld the move to take wolves off the endangered species list. Monday's legal filing came on the first day wolf hunting licenses went on sale in Montana.

After Wednesday decision by U. S. District Judge Donald Malloy in which he reluctantly sided with the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of appeals that removed wolves in several western states from federal protection, I spoke with Public Education Specialist Vivaca Crowser from Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks about how they would proceed with the fall’s proposed wolf hunting season. That interview is attach

A federal judge has reluctantly ruled to uphold a congressional budget provision that removed federal protections for the Northern Rockies gray wolf outside of Wyoming. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy says that binding precedent by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals requires him to rule against a constitutional challenge of the rider passed by Congress earlier this year.