This winter saw the most wolves from Yellowstone National Park killed in about a century. That's because states neighboring the park changed hunting rules in an effort to reduce the animals' numbers.

From 2021-2024, that number nearly tripled when an average of 12.75 wolves died annually, according to Yellowstone Wolf Project data. It was clear to Doug Smith, retired lead of the Yellowstone Wolf ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Seventeen Yellowstone National Park wolves were killed in 2024, and among them was the fabled one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On four separate occasions, Wolf 907F seized power as the alpha female leader of the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National ...