Wolves return to the West After being driven to near-extinction, these animals, and the politics around them, are back. by Jonathan Thompson June 1, 2025 June 3, 2025 ...

The changes we’re proposing this year are targeted at trying to increase harvest in west and northwest Montana," said Quentin Kujala, FWP’s Chief of Conservation Policy.

Sloping down to the Madison River, Lang's 18,000-acre Sun Ranch in southwest Montana is an Old West tableau of rippling prairie, plunging streams, ghostly bands of elk, browsing cattle—and, at ...

Wolves in Montana: FWP discusses how the state manages its wolf population. Posted: September 16, 2024 | Last updated: December 8, 2024. ... I’m 72-years-old, ...

Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her new memoir reveals that entanglements with humans in Montana were often tougher than dealing with … ...

Meanwhile in Montana, 14 Canadian wolves were already on their way to a new home. Following an Environmental Impact Statement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — for which over 160,000 ...

On Jan. 31, the 30th anniversary of wolves getting reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, congressional representatives Lauren Boebert, R.Colo., and Tom Tiffany, R.Wis., introduced their ...

Wolves in the West should be relisted under ESA, groups argue. ... Federal protections for gray wolves were removed in Montana and Idaho in 2011, and in Wyoming the following year.

Comparing killing wolves at night utilizing thermal imaging technology to getting rid of mice, rats or noxious weeds, Rep. Paul Fielder, R-Thompson Falls, argued for passage of House Bill 259. The ...

Montana landowners have not been required to have a license to kill wolves attacking livestock, pets or threatening humans since a 2013 bill was passed. Montana bill expands wolf bounty to landowners ...

Today Montana and Idaho have over five times more wolves than Washington. Yellowstone biologists documented only two cases of cougars killing wolves in the past 28 years (the last in 2003).

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is proposing increasing the statewide quota for the upcoming wolf hunting and trapping season to 500 as the state tries to reduce the number of wolves in Montana ...