This article originally published at Permits to kill endangered wolves are increasingly being handed over to ranchers.

It’s continued for decades as one of the best-known western conservation efforts: bringing Mexican Wolf populations back from ...

The Spokesman-Review reports that the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved the money Tuesday for the Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board. The 15-5 vote maintains the operating budget at ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has authorized a highly unusual permit allowing a Republican Catron County Commissioner to ...

VALLEY FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Trump administration is moving to permanently delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act, a decision spotlighting the struggles of a Southern Oregon ranch ...

The killing of a Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico by federal wildlife agencies has sparked concerns among wolf advocacy groups who say the actions, even if authorized, are harmful to the recovery ...

U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, who represents eastern Oregon, warned that the growing population of gray wolves is an increasing threat to livestock and the meat industry and called for their removal from ...

Governments often take on the job of killing problem wolves that attack livestock in order to increase public tolerance for the predators and, in theory, to reduce poaching by frustrated citizens.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park wildlife officials say a wolf that has chased people on bicycles and motorcycles on several occasions will have to be killed. Wildlife managers have ...