Wolves

No matter who you talk to, a conversation about wolves tends to be a conversation charged with emotion, and oftentimes controversy. But a new podcast dives headfirst into what the hosts are calling the radical center.

Following a Helena judge’s ruling last month, Montana’s wolf hunting and trapping seasons are underway with looser regulations. But two conservation groups say their lawsuit against Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks is far from over.

When 41 wolves were relocated from Canada into Yellowstone National Park, wildlife biologist Ed Bangs and his team were responsible for delivering the wolves. Yellowstone’s senior wolf biologist Doug Smith was on the receiving end.YPR's Orlinda Worthington spoke with them about wolves, politics and retirement.

Conservationists are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the lack of a nationwide recovery plan for endangered wolves.

A Helena judge on Tuesday dissolved a temporary restraining order that lowered some wolf hunting and trapping limits.

The order also temporarily prohibits the use of snares and lowers the bag limit to bring 2022-2023 regulations closer to the regulations in play before the Montana Legislature passed a suite of laws increasing the number of wolves hunters and trappers can kill.

Conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that Montana’s wolf hunting and trapping policies violate state and federal laws.

After initially setting the quota in a hunting management unit north of the park at 10 wolves, commissioners reduced it to 6.

States neighboring Yellowstone National Park have eased rules on hunting wolves, resulting in the most being killed in nearly a century

The season closed Tuesday with 272 wolves killed out of the state’s total threshold of 450.