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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A wolf hunt area northwest of Cody is closed now that hunters have killed the local limit of four wolves. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department closed Hunt Area One on Wednesday. Wyoming's first wolf hunting season since the federal government reintroduced wolves to the Yellowstone ecosystem in the 1990s is almost over...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Hunters killed 24 elk in the first week of this year's Grand Teton National Park elk hunt. Grand Teton issued 725 licenses this year with the goal of hunters taking 300 elk. In the 2011 hunt, 750 permits were issued and 278 elk were taken...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunts that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in recent months. Wednesday's ruling from the 9th U...