Biologist Seeks Wolves' Return to Rockies
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist says returning wolves to the Rocky Mountains is "a chance to undo a great wrong" done when wolves were exterminated from about 98 percent of their range by the mid-1900s.
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Malnutrition and starvation have drastically reduced moose numbers in northwest Wyoming, according to the author of a new study that debunks the belief among some that wolves are a leading cause of the decline.
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The gray wolves of the West are about to step out onto the high wire of life in the real world, when their status as endangered animals formally comes to an end early this year.
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By James Gilbert, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 15--Wildlife officials now have a plan for restoring the historically low population of bighorn sheep to the area.
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As the gray wolf hovered on the brink of extinction a decade ago, U.S. officials embarked on a controversial plan to open the vast refuge of Yellowstone National Park to the pack-based predators in the hopes of rebuilding the species.
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More than a million acres in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming have been affected by a pine bark beetle infestation, devastating forests and hunting alike.
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The reintroduction of wild wolves into the Scottish Highlands is likely to benefit the area's ecosystem, a study concludes.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jan. 30--SALIDA -- The growing business of ecotourism or "wildlife watching," which annually generates more than $1 billion in the state's revenue, will be the focus of a Colorado Division of Wildlife meeting Wednesday.
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Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 13--A few months ago a friend who lives in Montana dangled a tempting carrot in front of me.   He invited me to join him in September on a backcountry bow hunt for elk in Western Montana.
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Alaska's wolf-killing program to boost moose and caribou numbers is facing a new legal challenge.
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For campers at Isle Royale National Park, sighting a gray wolf is a rare and thrilling experience. At least, it has been. But some wolves have gotten a bit too familiar this summer, wandering into camping areas and showing little of their customary fear of people.
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The director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may keep a rare jumping mouse in the Rocky Mountains on the endangered species list after all.
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Wyoming and the federal government have reached an agreement on how the state would manage the wolf population after its protection under the Threatened and Endangered Species Act is lifted.
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In their pursuit of a World Series title, the Rockies will go to Ubaldo Jimenez in tonight's Game 2.
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A century after they were wiped out by   hunters and a burgeoning population, wolves have returned to   parts of eastern Germany as factories close down, businesses   fail and people move out.
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By BEN NEARY  CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.