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Standing at the edge of a bluff overlooking the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park, TJ Ammond stared through binoculars at hundreds of buffalo dotting the verdant valley below. Grizzly bears ...
Montana wildlife commissioners on Friday moved to shut down gray wolf hunting in a portion of the state around Yellowstone National Park, amid mounting criticism over a record number of the ...
Gov. Greg Gianforte defied a state-mandated regulation that requires hunters to take a wolf trapping certification course before killing a wolf.
In Hustai National Park, legally protected since 1994, activities such as hunting, logging and letting livestock graze in the park were banned. A study published in 2009 by van Duyne et al., estimated the wolf population of this park at 20 - 50. [101] Wolves are given no legal protection, and no livestock damage compensation is paid. [8] [100]
These animals are most likely from the natural dispersion of those reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. [20] Wildlife officials made a number of additional sightings in 2019. [21] By 2021, some 3,000 wolves were inhabiting portions of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Northern California. [11]
Wolves from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have dispersed into Colorado several times in the 21st century. In 2021, scientists documented the first litter of pups born to wolves in the state since the wolves' original extirpation. This resident wolf pack is monitored by Colorado Parks & Wildlife. In 2020, voters narrowly approved wolf ...
Keith Merrill of National Park News reported in mid-June that the queen of Yellowstone gave birth to three healthy pups, "This 10th litter has just started to come out of the den,” said Kira ...
Map showing wolf packs in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as of 2002. Grey wolf packs were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and Idaho starting in 1995. These wolves were considered as “experimental, nonessential” populations per article 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Such classification gave government officials ...