The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will no longer release a national recovery plan for gray wolves. That’s because the agency says it’s “no longer appropriate” for the species to be federally ...

On May 6, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a gray wolf extermination bill into law that allows hunters, trappers — and even paid private contractors — to slaughter up to 90% of the wolves in Idaho. The ...

Federal officials announced this week that they will not produce a nationwide recovery plan for gray wolves, a reversal that ...

This July 2004 photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. As the federal government seeks to take the gray wolf off the endangered species list, conflicts between the ...

The gray wolf was officially removed from the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list Friday after three decades -- a decision that has stoked controversy among environmentalists and ranchers. It ...

A gray wolf. Idaho regulators say there are 1,235 wolves in the state, 7% less than a year ago. (Courtesy John and Karen Hollingsworth/USFWS) Idaho Department of Fish and Game biologists estimate the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. It was a frigid January day a decade ago when the first gray wolves bolted out of crates and into the wilds of Idaho. The event was cheered by environmentalists, who had once wondered ...

A coalition of outdoor sporting groups intend to appeal the decision of a federal judge in Montana made last week that directed the federal government to reconsider whether gray wolves in the Rocky ...

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 ...

With the third winter “release season” in Colorado’s gray wolf reintroduction plan just weeks away, state wildlife officials ...