The question of how many wolves a region can sustain without tipping the balance against prey herds, livestock operations, and the wolves themselves has no clean answer. Since the federal government ...

A member of Wapiti Lake Pack is photographed near the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park in July 2020. The Wapiti is one of nine packs living in Yellowstone as of December 2024. Jim Peaco ...

This winter saw the most wolves from Yellowstone National Park killed in about a century. That's because states neighboring the park changed hunting rules in an effort to reduce the animals' numbers.

Burtenshaw said he pushed for the law because his constituents told him there are too many wolves eating too much livestock. “The big thing was the amount of farmers and ranchers that were dealing ...

Oregon’s wolf population increased last year after four years of nearly flat growth, with the animals continuing to expand their habitat westward, according to a new state report. The population grew ...

"Many, many of the populations that have been reintroduced to different areas would be considered way too small by genetic models, and their possibility of success deemed very low, but many of those ...

This story was updated on January 8, 2026. 2025 was an eventful year for Mexican wolves. The imperiled predators — a subspecies of gray wolf reintroduced to the Southwest in 1998 — appeared to be ...