wolves

Wildlife officials confirm that a gray wolf was spotted passing through a suburban subdivision outside Jackson Monday.

Hunters have killed half the allowable number of wolves in a trophy hunting area bordering Yellowstone National Park.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says the quota in another wolf area has been met and will be closed for the remainder of the season. Spokesman Alan Dubberley says wolf hunt area 5 has reached its quota of three wolves...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A southeastern Idaho ranch lost 176 sheep as the animals ran in fear from two wolves that chased through a herd of about 2,400 animals south of Victor. Sheepherders for the Siddoway Sheep Co. heard the wolves at about 1 a...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A new study says wolves don't startle female elk that winter east of Yellowstone National Park sufficiently to make them lose weight or harm their birthing rates. Previous researchers theorized that Yellowstone-area wolves frighten female elk into running frequently enough to reduce their ability to stay healthy and reproduce...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...