Wolf Management

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunts that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in recent months. Wednesday’s ruling from the 9th U...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill three or four wolves that have brazenly approached homes in Jackson in northwest Wyoming. Wolf manager Mike Jimenez (hih-MEN’-ez) says there have been numerous sightings of wolves, beginning in late December, that show the animals have made residential areas part of their territory...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill to change Wyoming’s wolf management law to accommodate an agreement to end federal protection for the animals in the state has cleared its first committee hearing. The Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee unanimously approved the bill Thursday. ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are set to consider changing the state’s wolf management law to accommodate an agreement that Gov. Matt Mead and U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar reached last year on ending federal protections for the animals in the state...

Gov. Matt Mead is calling on Wyoming lawmakers to endorse a wolf management plan that would designate the animals as predators that could be shot on sight in most of the state. Mead and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last year agreed on a plan to end federal protections for wolves in Wyoming. The federal government already has turned over wolf management to state governments in Idaho and Montana.

A National Park Service official says he would consider allowing wolf hunting in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway but doesn’t think it’s ideal. The prospect of wolf hunting comes up now that state and federal officials have agreed to remove wolves from endangered species protection in Wyoming...

One of the five scientists retained by a federal government contractor to review Wyoming’s proposed wolf management states in a recently released report that he sees shortcomings with it.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Scientists say in a new study that the return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park by curbing foraging elk herds that prevented new aspen, willow and cottonwood trees from taking root...