The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has closed the wolf hunting and trapping season in southwestern Montana’s Region 3 after 55 wolves were killed. The quota was 52. So far this year, 224 wolves ...

Billings, Mont. - Montana wildlife commissioners shut down gray wolf hunting last week in backcountry adjacent to Yellowstone National Park after nine of the predators were killed there in recent ...

Montana is making it easier to hunt wolves. The wolf population has been growing even though wolf hunting is already legal. So wildlife officials are doing away with the statewide kill limit. They are ...

When Montana and Idaho held their first regulated wolf hunts in 2009, one of their stated goals was to reduce pressure on ranchers. Rebounding wolf populations were killing livestock. Fewer wolves, ...

A 2-year-old wolf that was beloved by wildlife aficionados and tracked by researchers in Yellowstone National Park has been killed by a Montana hunter. Wolf 1479F, part of the Junction Butte Pack, was ...

Idaho's season starts Tuesday in some parts of the state, while Montana will open wolf hunting in three wilderness areas on Sept. 15. Wolves remain federally protected in Wyoming. Attorney Doug ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission are facing a lawsuit from two wildlife advocacy groups over discrepancies in the wolf regulations. On Thursday the groups, ...

Two controversial bills that sought to push Montana’s wolf population down into the hundreds saw mixed success late this week on the House floor due in part to relatively heavy opposition from ...

HELENA, Mont. - Montana wildlife commissioners on Wednesday consider more liberal hunting and trapping rules for gray wolves as part of an effort to drive down their population.A bag limit of five ...

Hunters in Montana had shot more than 160 gray wolves as the season came to a close across most of the state Wednesday - a sharp increase from the last hunt in 2009 but still short of the state's ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A pair of Montana lawmakers and the Outdoor Heritage Coalition last week filed a lawsuit alleging ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Some 166 wolves were killed in Montana in that state's first hunting season since federal protection of the species was lifted last year, but its population still managed to ...