When Montana and Idaho held their first regulated wolf hunts in 2009, one of their stated goals was to reduce pressure on ranchers. Rebounding wolf populations were killing livestock. Fewer wolves, ...
BOISE, Idaho — Greg Wooten says shooting a Rocky Mountain wolf won’t be easy, even if a federal judge doesn’t blow apart the hunting season before it starts. Wooten, the Idaho Department of Fish and ...
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Wolf hunting will begin in the Northern Rockies as a federal judge weighs a request by environmental and animal welfare groups to stop the predators from being killed.Hunters in ...
A debate on hunting and trapping wolves, held Saturday as part of this weekend's International Wolf Symposium in Duluth, took an almost philosophical turn at times. "Science doesn't give us permission ...