Recent News About Wolf Hunting

When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area's wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. Read Article

Midway through the state's first-ever wolf season, hunters have taken more than a third of the state's 220 harvest limit. Read Article

A hunter from Roberts reported Montana's first fair-chase wolf hunting harvest Wednesday morning with the kill coming from the high country of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Read Article

Montana wolves, protected predators for more than three decades, will become prey today as the state's first-ever wolf hunting season gets under way, beginning with four backcountry areas. Read Article

A Montana judge has ruled against environmentalists in the hunt for gray wolf population-overloads, saying that a 30% reduction in the pack could be sustained by the species without endangering it. Read Article

LEWISTON, Idaho — The first hunter to report a wolf kill in Idaho says he's been flooded with nasty messages. Read Article

Two Idaho hunters shot wolves in opposite sides of the state opening the state's first wolf season. Read Article

MISSOULA, Mont. — Gray wolf hunting will begin in the Northern Rockies as a federal judge considers an injunction request by environmental and animal welfare groups to stop the predators from being killed. Read Article

HELENA - While the debate about how many wolves are enough to ensure a healthy population will again come to a head in a federal courtroom Monday, a Dillon-area ranch is picking up the pieces from the largest known wolf depredation in recent history. Read Article

Idaho potato boycott threatened over proposed wolf reduction hunt; state legislator proposes sending opposition wolves instead Read Article

Idaho hunters will have their work cut out for them to reach the 220-wolf limit set by Fish and Game commissioners earlier this month, experts say. Read Article

Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Tuesday he'd be disappointed if a federal judge stopped Montana's first-ever wolf hunting season - and hinted the state may sue to keep the hunt on. Read Article

So you want to take a wolf in Idaho this year? You can't trap, you can't bait, you can't use dogs and you can't hunt around Idaho Department of Fish and Game big game feeding sites Read Article

Montana's first-ever, fair-chase wolf hunting season, set to open Sept. 15 in some areas of the state, is the culmination of one of the fastest endangered species recoveries on record, wildlife officials said today. Read Article

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has intervened in a federal lawsuit aimed at turning back a recent decision to remove gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains from the federal list of endangered species. Read Article

The request came in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to restore federal Endangered Species Act protections to wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains until wolf numbers are stronger, the states develop an adequate legal safety net, ... Read Article

Officials in Idaho, all the way up to Gov. Butch Otter, will be likened to the anti-Christ for supporting a wolf hunt, scheduled to begin Sept. 1 in some areas, and later in the fall in other areas of the state. Read Article

The fight over wolf reintroduction has polarized people and roiled passions in Idaho. The fight has only just begun. Read Article

Some hunters say the harvest limit set by Idaho Fish and Game commissioners Monday isn't high enough. Read Article

Idaho is on the verge of having its first wolf hunting season, and I'm nervously hoping it goes well.. Read Article

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. Read Article

The notebook full of successful hunt photos is three fingers thick in the lobby of Sportsman's Warehouse. But among the pictures of deer, elk, bear and cougar, there are no hunters holding wolves... Read Article

Idaho Fish and Game commissioners will meet Monday in Idaho Falls to establish numbers for each of the 12 zones, as well as a statewide maximum... Read Article

According to Jerome Hansen, Fish and Game's Magic Valley regional manager, the decision was reached after Gooding rancher John Faulkner requested that the wolves be given a reprieve. Fish and Game was prepared to kill members of the pack linked to the dea Read Article

Idaho isn't getting into the wolf export business any time soon. Earlier this year, Idaho Department of Fish and Game Director Cal Groen sent letters offering up Idaho wolves to any state that wanted to manage them. Read Article

An Idaho game commissioner says hunters are so upset about growing wolf populations, they'll take matters into their own hands and hunt the animals this fall -- and break the law if they have to. Read Article

Science-based field research, funded in part by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, is yielding solid data on why gray wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming should be managed by state wildlife agencies. Read Article