One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock to wolves every... New study raises questions about effectiveness of wolf ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. GARDINER — Wolf hunting in southwestern Montana's Wolf Management Unit 313 was closed Oct. 26 ...

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, ...