"Markers of the success." Officials make 'exciting' discovery after releasing iconic creatures into wild: 'We are elated' ...

The wolf reintroduction program costs have far exceeded the initial estimate presented to voters, leaving questions and ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of Howl, a five-part written series and podcast season produced in partnership between the Idaho Capital Sun, States Newsroom and Boise State Public Radio ...

This means that wolves that wandered outside Yellowstone Park were largely prohibited from being killed, particularly early in the reintroduction. Colorado would likely not have similar restrictions.

Yellowstone’s dramatic transformation through the reintroduction of wolves has become a global parable for how to correct out-of-balance ecosystems. In recent years, however, new research has ...

Thirty years after wolves were brought back from near extinction in the U.S. Rocky Mountains, the state of Idaho is back in ...

"95% of ranchers in Colorado will never have a problem," said Ed Bangs, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who led the reintroduction of wolves in the mid-1990s to Yellowstone ...

But in 1994, former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt authorized the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho. “It was a long slog,” Smith said.

That’s because the wolves’ main food source, the Northern Yellowstone elk herd, has fallen from about 19,000 before the reintroduction to about 5,000 to 6,000.

The controversy has only deepened since Colorado voters narrowly approved Proposition 114 in 2020, which mandated the reintroduction of gray wolves by 2023. ... in Yellowstone National Park, ...

Tensions over Colorado's wolf reintroduction remain high a year after first release as Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to release up to 15 more wolves soon. Ranchers have called for a pause.

GARDINER, Mont. (AP) | Twenty years after their ancestors were released here in one of the most controversial wildlife projects of the century, wolf howls punctuated the cold winter air ...