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 ...

Montana plans to allow more than 550 wolves to be killed this season. That’s over half the state’s population. According to Fish Wildlife and Park’s own forecasting report, this level of slaughter ...

Anja Heister writes, Every year, wildlife management becomes more cruel and more aggressive, e.g., longer trapping seasons, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA — The House Fish, Wildlife and Parks committee spent nearly five hours on Tuesday evening ...

Efforts to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list across most of the lower 48 states hit a hurdle yesterday. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service panel said the scientific research is ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana wildlife commissioners approved a plan Thursday that aims to reduce the gray wolf population for the first time since the once-endangered animal was reintroduced to the region ...

BILLINGS - Federal wildlife managers killed nine wolves in just over a month for attacking or killing livestock in southwest Montana, including one that a state wolf official says was shot by mistake.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Snow crunched underfoot as Mark Hebblewhite scanned the ridgelines of Canada’s Banff National Park. It was 1995, and the young biologist, fresh out of undergrad, was ...

MISSOULA — Five wolves from two separate packs were killed Monday and Tuesday in southwestern Montana for preying on cattle. That brought to nine the number of wolves removed by federal agents in ...

SUMMARY: Lawsuits on wolf management should wait until management transfers from the federal government to the states. Once on the brink of extinction in the lower 48 states, gray wolves were subject ...

Public opinion on gray wolves remains sharply split as Montana and Idaho wildlife officials prepare to resume hunts for the predators after Congress removed their endangered species protections.