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Wyoming Game & Fish Trapping Wolves And Grizzly Bears

Associated Press — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:04:27 +0000

PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has begun trapping wolves and grizzly bears in western Wyoming.

The idea behind the trapping is to help monitor the wolves and bears

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Game & Fish Trapping Wolves, Grizzly Bears

Associated Press — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:37:03 +0000

PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has begun trapping wolves and grizzly bears in western Wyoming.

The idea behind the trapping is to help monitor the wolves and bears.

The agency is trapping wolves this summer in the northern Wind River Mountains and Gros Ventre (groh-VAWNT') Mountains north of Pinedale and east of Bondurant

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Jackson Hunting Guides Cut Back In Wolf Permits

Associated Press — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:42:29 +0000

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The Jackson Hole Outfitters and Guides Association has endorsed Wyoming's proposal to cut the number of wolf hunting permits in half this fall.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has proposed reducing the wolf hunting permits from 52 to 26

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Wyoming Wolf Hunting Quota May Be Halved

Associated Press — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:48:28 +0000

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is proposing to reduce wolf hunting quotas by half this fall because of the state's successful first hunt last year.

Officials say the state's wolf population could not withstand another 52-wolf quota without coming dangerously close to the required minimum set in Wyoming's delisting plan

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Research Shows Wolves Have Taste For Moose

Associated Press — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:34:35 +0000

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Research shows wolves in the northern part of Grand Teton National Park have an appetite for moose during the wintertime.

Park and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service researchers documented some 55 moose killed by wolves over the past three winters

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Hunters Kill 43 Wolves In Wyoming's Hunting Season

Associated Press — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:38:50 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Hunters didn't take all the wolves they were allowed to during Wyoming's wolf hunting season.

They killed 43 wolves before the season ended Monday, nine short of the state's quota for the animals

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Wyoming's Wolf Hunting Season Ends

Associated Press — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:41:27 +0000

Wyoming's wolf hunting season ends Monday.

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Wyoming's Wolf Hunting Season Ends Today

Associated Press — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:58:38 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's wolf hunting season ends Monday.

Hunters are allowed to kill a total of 52 wolves. Hunters had taken 43 by Friday afternoon, the latest update available from the state

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2-Radio-Collared Wolves Killed In Grand Teton NP

Associated Press — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:06:45 +0000

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Hunters have killed two radio-collared wolves that roamed Grand Teton National Park, localizing a debate about the legal killing of "park" wolves used for research.

The Associated Press reports that wildlife officials say it's unavoidable that park wolves will range outside park boundaries

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Hunters More Than Halfway To 1st Wyoming Wolf Quota

Associated Press — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:14:05 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Hunters are more than halfway toward meeting the quota for Wyoming's first wolf hunt since the animals were reintroduced to the Yellowstone region in the 1990s.

The hunt began Oct

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Wyoming Wolf Season Starts With 2 Killed

Brian Scott — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:24:59 +0000

Wyoming's wolf season kicked off Monday

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Wyoming Game And Fish One Step Closer To Management Of Wolves [AUDIO]

Brian Scott — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:14:13 +0000

After years of court battles, federal negotiations and legislative challenges, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is now preparing to take over management of the wolf population in the state.

The Wyoming Legisl

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Jackson-Area Wolves Attack And Injure Dog

Associated Press — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:33:57 +0000

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wolves that have been wandering around the Jackson area have attacked and injured a dog.

The Jackson Hole Daily reported Thursday that the dog survived but federal officials won't provide other details, including exactly where the attack happened.

Wolves were first spotted in W

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USFWS To Kill Wolves Seen In Jackson

Associated Press — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:59:21 +0000

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill three or four wolves that have brazenly approached homes in Jackson in northwest Wyoming.

Wolf manager Mike Jimenez (hih-MEN'-ez) says there have been numerous sightings of wolves, beginning in late December, that show the animals have made residential areas part of their territory

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Wolves In New York's Central Park?

Associated Press — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:31:36 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Some Wyoming lawmakers are pushing a tongue-in-cheek bill calling on Congress to acquire New York City's Central Park to reintroduce wolves and other endangered species there

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Wolf Management Debate In Cheyenne

Associated Press — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:39:27 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are set to consider changing the state's wolf management law to accommodate an agreement that Gov. Matt Mead and U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar reached last year on ending federal protections for the animals in the state

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Governor Mead Pushing For Wolf Management Plan

Associated Press — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:24:34 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead is calling on Wyoming lawmakers to endorse a wolf management plan that would designate the animals as predators that could be shot on sight in most of the state

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1 Of 5 Scientists Takes Issue With Wyoming Wolf Plan

Associated Press — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:14:00 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — One of the five scientists retained by a federal government contractor to review Wyoming's proposed wolf management states in a recently released report that he sees shortcomings with it

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Study: Yellowstone Wolves Help Trees Rebound

Associated Press — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Scientists say in a new study that the return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park by curbing foraging elk herds that prevented new aspen, willow and cottonwood trees from taking root

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Wolf-Watching, New Tourist Niche for Wyoming

Karen Snyder — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:59:14 +0000

People in the Rockies and from around the country are willing to pay just for the chance to see a wolf in its natural habitat. That’s what a guide has discovered, and the tours he and his wife offer in Yellowstone National Park are always booked

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