On heels of 2021 legislative mandate, Montana hunters and trappers in 2025-26 harvested lowest numbers in a decade.

This winter saw the most wolves from Yellowstone National Park killed in about a century. That's because states neighboring the park changed hunting rules in an effort to reduce the animals' numbers.

From 2021-2024, that number nearly tripled when an average of 12.75 wolves died annually, according to Yellowstone Wolf Project data. It was clear to Doug Smith, retired lead of the Yellowstone Wolf ...

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Scientists are raising alarms after a sharp and unexpected decline in wolf populations in Yellowstone National Park, a place long considered one of the greatest conservation success stories in the ...

Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Seventeen Yellowstone National Park wolves were killed in 2024, and among them was the fabled one ...