wildlife

Kids and Wildlife Day is this Saturday sponsored by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners have approved new wolf hunting rules that will allow trappers to each kill up to three of the predators. The new rules approved Thursday more closely resemble Idaho's, following a season where hunters failed to reach the quota of 220 wolves...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials say they have received a whopping 6,500 comments on their proposal for this year's wolf hunt. Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim says the number of comments far outnumbers the 1,500 received in 2011...

BONNERS FERRY, Idaho (AP) — Scientists are hoping a mixture of fish guts and cow blood sprinkled liberally along the mountainous Idaho-Montana border will help them count grizzly bears. It's an effort pushed by local government officials who suspect there may be more of these big predators in the region than their status as a threatened species may suggest...

A monster crocodile who goes by the name Lolong has just earned a Guinness World Record for being the largest saltwater croc held in captivity. We wonder if that makes his handlers, who must have the most dangerous job in the world, feel any better.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials have euthanized a young grizzly bear that killed cattle in the Red Lodge twice in the past year. The 2½-year-old grizzly bear was captured Friday morning, a day after a dead calf was found near a county road northeast of Red Lodge...

It’s a sad, sad day for animal lovers. Lonesome George, the longtime turtle mascot of the Galapagos Islands and the last of his kind, died on Sunday, officially making the Pinta Island giant tortoise extinct.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — State and federal wildlife officials in Montana say they're trying to locate a female grizzly bear responsible for killing 70 sheep at three ranches in the last two weeks. Officials tell the Great Falls Tribune they hope to locate the grizzly using a transmitter attached to her 32-pound cub's ear...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer's natural resource policy adviser has been named the new deputy director at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Mike Volesky replaces former Butte legislator Art Noonan, who recently left for a job at Northwestern Energy...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners are being asked to approve a program to reintroduce trumpeter swans to the Madison River Valley. Wildlife officials plan to release five 70-day-old swans this summer in the restored O'Dell Creek headwaters south of Ennis...