I remember the moment the crate opened. The wolf bolted into the Idaho forest — disappearing into a landscape where wolves had been absent for nearly a century. I helped release some of those wolves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gray wolves ( Photo by Steve Jurvetson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services | Creative Commons). A prediction, several years in ...

Ranchers Jay and Chyenne Smith raise Black Angus cattle near the tiny town of Carmen, Idaho. The ranch is located just over the ridge from one of the original sites of wolf reintroduction, and the ...

MISSOULA, MONTANA — A federal judge in Missoula on Tuesday vacated the federal government’s determination that gray wolves in the Western United States do not need increased federal protections under ...

LEWISTON – Idaho is on track to meet its wolf population goals within the next four or five years, according to the state’s fish and game department. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game announced ...

Although conservationists are celebrating a legal victory this week in their fight to restore protections for wolves in the West, wolves remain under state control in Idaho, where hunting and trapping ...

Boise, ID – A summary judgment ruling in Idaho District Court yesterday will prevent the state of Idaho from authorizing wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat during non-denning periods.

The new method estimated 1,150 wolves, while the trail cam method estimated 840 wolves, Roberts said. Even though it has been a year since Idaho Fish and Game officials announced their new estimation ...

continues his trek westward, one of his brothers was found shot by a hunter in Idaho. In states like California and Oregon, gray wolves are rare — in fact, OR-7 is the first to set a paw in the Golden ...