A pair of state lawmakers is suing Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission, claiming they aren’t doing enough to reduce the state’s wolf population.

Filed by two state lawmakers and other plaintiffs, the lawsuit alleges wolf quotas are too low to conform to laws passed by the Legislature in 2021.

For those keeping track, the number of wolves harvested by Montana hunters in two management units immediately north of ...

An alpha female of the Canyon wolf pack makes its way through the snow in the Lower Geyser Basin. Jim Peaco; February 2015. (Image courtesy Yellowstone National Park, NPS) Following pressure from ...

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 ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has closed the wolf hunting and trapping season in southwestern Montana’s Region 3 after 55 wolves were killed. The quota was 52. So far this year, 224 wolves ...

Wolf hunting in southwestern Montana's Wolf Management Unit 313 was closed on Oct. 26 after the harvest quota of three wolves was met, according to Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Four wolves, two males and ...

The House Fish, Wildlife and Parks committee spent nearly five hours on Tuesday evening considering a trio of bills related to Montana’s population of roughly 1,100 resident wolves — far too many, ...

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, ...