One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock ...

Although conservationists are celebrating a legal victory this week in their fight to restore protections for wolves in the West, wolves remain under state control in Idaho, where hunting and trapping ...

SALMON, Idaho, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The first statewide competition in decades to hunt wolves and coyotes in Idaho has sparked outrage among wildlife conservationists, who condemned it as "an organized ...

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission voted 4-3 Monday to let hunters shoot 220 wolves during a hunting season due to start in September. Environmental groups who have ...

Wolves are very elusive animals, and in the state of Idaho, their populations have been declining for over six years.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game Environmental groups today went to court to stop wolf hunts in Idaho, where big-game rifle hunting is just underway, and Montana, where the season begins next week.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to allow wolf hunts throughout the state this year. The decision is the agency's first step in taking on management of wolves, eradicated from Idaho ...

For the past few years in Idaho, hunters, trappers and government officials have killed wolves in a variety of ways. One hunter hit a wolf with a snowmobile before shooting and killing it. Dozens of ...

MISSOULA -- The day after Idaho’s 2011-12 wolf hunting season ended, some parts of the state started hunting for 2012-13. Private lands in Idaho’s northern panhandle region are allowed to keep the ...