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, ...

For the past few years in Idaho, hunters, trappers and government officials have killed wolves in a variety of ways. One hunter hit a wolf with a snowmobile before shooting and killing it. Dozens of ...

SALMON, Idaho, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The first statewide competition in decades to hunt wolves and coyotes in Idaho has sparked outrage among wildlife conservationists, who condemned it as "an organized ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission voted 4-3 Monday to let hunters shoot 220 wolves during a hunting season due to start in September. Environmental groups who have ...

MISSOULA -- The day after Idaho’s 2011-12 wolf hunting season ended, some parts of the state started hunting for 2012-13. Private lands in Idaho’s northern panhandle region are allowed to keep the ...