On heels of 2021 legislative mandate, Montana hunters and trappers in 2025-26 harvested lowest numbers in a decade.
Idaho Fish and Game Feb. 21-22 killed three wolves in the state’s far north to support elk recovery. Helicopter-borne staff shot the wolves. The first-ever effort in the department’s Panhandle elk ...
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) said Wednesday that it completed targeted wolf management actions this week, removing three wolves from the Panhandle elk zone. IDFG ...
Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members working together to isolate and exhaust an animal. That reality makes one ...
A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...
In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...
Gray wolves and cougars are not only iconic to the Yellowstone National Park landscape, but they also play important roles in ...