wolves

Some significant cash rewards are being offered for information about the illegal killing of wolves across Oregon and Washington last year.

The Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to lessen protections, then reversed course. The state’s wolf population is up, but advocates say the animals need more time to recover.

Many ranchers say it’s time to find creative ways to deal with wolf attacks on livestock. That’s what a new bill in the Washington state Senate hopes to do – to the frustration of some wildlife rights groups.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking for the public’s help to find who poisoned six wolves in northeastern Washington.

Wildlife advocates say there's been a distressing uptick in wolf poaching cases in the Northwest in the past year and a half. Four dead wolves were discovered in the northeastern corner of Washington state in February. That followed the poisoning of eight wolves in eastern Oregon in 2021, along with the poaching of a total of eight wolves in Idaho last year.

Wolves mostly make the news when they are in conflict with livestock and that’s part of the reason they were once removed from the Western landscape....

A bill in a committee of the Washington House of Representatives would exempt some personal information relating to the state’s wolf management efforts...

After a tense year for wolf management in Washington state, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is making some crucial changes. Members of the Wolf...

For the last two months, wildlife managers in Washington state have been shooting wolves in the Profanity Peak pack from a helicopter. The director of...

In the past month, wildlife officials have shot six wolves from a helicopter in the Colville National Forest in northeast Washington state. That’s...