As wildlife advocates make a second try to limit Montana’s wolf season, a judge’s decision may come down to the unreliability of the state’s wolf population estimates.

Nearly a dozen conservation groups filed suit against the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management, seeking to restore protections for gray wolves in Montana and Idaho. (Steve ...

Lawyers for multiple conservation organizations argued during a hearing in Helena on Friday new Montana regulations around ...

State wildlife officials are looking to loosen regulations and increase quotas on wolf hunting and trapping for the 2025-26 season. Among the potential changes is a 50% increase to both the statewide ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced the Montana wolf population remains healthy despite, increased harvests. There were 283 wolves harvested in the 2023-2024 season, up from 258 ...

A federal judge has cut wolf trapping season in half in most of Montana. The decision comes after multiple animal advocacy groups filed a lawsuit claiming that federally-protected grizzly bears are ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is proposing increasing the statewide quota for the upcoming ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will host a special online meeting Tuesday at 3 p.m. to discuss wolf harvest and quota in FWP Region 3. The quota for 2023 in the region is ...

HELENA, Mont. - State wildlife commissioners are preparing for the day, perhaps as early as next year, when people in Montana will be allowed to hunt gray wolves that are part of a population brought ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- 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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana's first-ever, fair-chase wolf hunting season, set to open Sept. 15 in some areas of the ...

Gray wolves ( Photo by Steve Jurvetson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services | Creative Commons). A prediction, several years in the making, came true on Monday when an alliance of nearly a dozen ...