SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The first statewide competition in decades to hunt wolves and coyotes in Idaho has sparked outrage among wildlife conservationists, who condemned it as "an organized killing ...

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission voted 4-3 Monday to let hunters shoot 220 wolves during a hunting season due to start in September. Environmental groups who have ...

Typically, wolves will yield to incoming bears. Since hunting is dangerous and often unsuccessful, it’s better for wolves to wait their turn at a carcass that has been usurped by a bear than it is for ...

The pro-hunt forces arrived at 7:30 a.m. outside the Russell Smith Courthouse for a street-corner rally in favor of keeping wolves off the federal endangered species list. Many of the 30 participants ...

The eventual aim is to get the population down to 450 wolves in the state, the lowest sustainable level as determined by a ...

Conservationists who are pushing for additional protections for wolves say a recent Montana court ruling represents a major victory for wolves. (File photo courtesy of MacNeil Lyons/U.S. Fish and ...

Idaho officials have said only that they plan to maintain at least 150 wolves, out of a current population of at least 700 animals. So far this year, wolves in Montana and Idaho have killed 152 cattle ...

BOISE, Idaho — Organizers of a disputed weekend predator derby in central Idaho's mountains say 21 coyotes but no wolves were shot by more than 230 hunters who participated. The derby near Salmon ...

For the past few years in Idaho, hunters, trappers and government officials have killed wolves in a variety of ways. One hunter hit a wolf with a snowmobile before shooting and killing it. Dozens of ...