Advocacy groups are asking the federal government to issue emergency protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, the only gray wolf population not on the Endangered Species List.
The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 3-2 to increase wolf harvest by allowing neck snaring and trap baiting statewide, night hunting on private land and other changes to the season. The new rules permit “aggressive” hunting measures not seen in Montana for decades.
The chair of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee penned a letter Wednesday saying its Bitterroot subcommittee improperly closed its meeting to the public earlier this year
A federal judge in Missoula has ruled the Flathead National Forest violated the Endangered Species Act by removing a rule that limits road-building in grizzly bear habitat.