A century ago, resident wolves were eliminated from the park. In 1995, biologists brought them back, marking a historic ...

This year’s elk season is a historic one in Colorado. It’s the first time in more than 80 years that big-game hunters have shared the landscape with an established population of gray wolves. This is ...

Bobcats and wolves protect forests in different ways. Bobcats control small animal populations, preventing overgrazing of ...

THE CALIFORNIA Department of Fish and Wildlife is gearing up to capture various wild animals in Northern California and outfit them with GPS collars to better track them, the agency said. Deer, elk ...

Thirty years after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, researchers say aspen trees are showing stronger ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — State wildlife officials said they’ve never seen anything like it: A pack of wolves killed 19 elk at a western Wyoming feeding ground and didn’t even bother to eat. They pointed ...

What’s the greatest threat to Colorado’s elk population? Habitat loss, climate change, chronic wasting disease or wolves? According to many Colorado hunters, the answer is “wolves.” I recently heard ...

If not for a series of tones broadcasting her location, no one would’ve known she had died. Like dozens of other Yellowstone National Park wolves involved in a three-decade-long study, researchers ...

Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mountain Journal. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Around Crystal Creek, where the road bridges the Lamar River at the fringe of Yellowstone National Park’s ...

For the past 15 years, Luke Painter has been traveling to the northern range of Yellowstone National Park, where mountains rise and tributaries carve valleys of sage, willows and trees. This includes ...

In the American West, the vast majority of public lands are leased to ranchers to graze their livestock. The ranchers can’t seem to get along with any of the wild inhabitants. Coyotes, ravens, eagles, ...

Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s recent statement about wolves was likely a response to constituent concerns: for this he cannot be faulted. However, his call for wolves to be killed in the Bitterroot Valley ...