Montana is making it easier to hunt wolves. The wolf population has been growing even though wolf hunting is already legal. So wildlife officials are doing away with the statewide kill limit. They are ...

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 ...

Attorneys for Montana and a coalition of environmental groups sparred in court Friday over whether a judge should halt the state’s ongoing wolf hunting and trapping season.

Lawyers for multiple conservation organizations argued during a hearing in Helena on Friday new Montana regulations around wolves could harm the species long term.

HELENA, Mont. - State wildlife commissioners are preparing for the day, perhaps as early as next year, when people in Montana will be allowed to hunt gray wolves that are part of a population brought ...

The wolf hunting season in Region 3 will close a half hour after sunset on Monday, Feb. 19, after the pre-established harvest quota of 52 wolves was filled, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks announced.

Law enforcement officers say they were pressured to lie when Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana killed a black wolf in 2021. He says the story is an election-year smear. By Jonathan Weisman Jonathan ...

Two controversial bills that sought to push Montana’s wolf population down into the hundreds saw mixed success late this week on the House floor due in part to relatively heavy opposition from ...

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, ...

A 2-year-old wolf that was beloved by wildlife aficionados and tracked by researchers in Yellowstone National Park has been killed by a Montana hunter. Wolf 1479F, part of the Junction Butte Pack, was ...