wolves

Idaho's hunters aren't exactly howling for wolf tags this season. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game sold 4,717 resident tags and 175 nonresident tags through Tuesday. Before the state's 2009-10 hunt, 4,000 tags sold on the first day and more than 30,000 were sold in total...

This is a big week for wolf hunters in Idaho. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will consider hunting and trapping seasons during its meeting in Salmon. Government biologists declared the gray wolf recovered from near-extermination in the Northern Rockies a decade ago...

Environmental groups have asked a federal judge to put gray wolves back on the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies. Two lawsuits were filed in federal court in Montana yesterday as control over more than 1,300 wolves was turned over to state authorities in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Utah...

The Obama administration says it is lifting endangered species act protections for 5,500 wolves in eight states in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes including here in Idaho.  The move will turn control over the predators to state wildlife agencies...

An attachment to a federal budget bill needed to avert a government shutdown would take gray wolves off the endangered species list across most of the Northern Rockies. Wildlife advocates conceded Tuesday the wolf provision was all but certain to remain in the spending bill after efforts to remove it failed...