Jan 15, 2025 · Yellowstone biologists work with outside researchers to study how wolves, bears, and cougars interact in the Northern Range, using GPS collars to track their movements. For example, we’ve studied how bears affect wolf hunting …

Jul 18, 2024 · The Montana Parks and Wildlife Commission will consider splitting wolf hunt unit 313 into two units at Yellowstone National Park’s request. Some 11 Yellowstone wolves were killed after crossing into Montana during the 2023-’24 hunting and trapping seasons. (Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks)

Jan 7, 2025 · Wolves consume a wide variety of prey, large and small. They efficiently hunt large prey that other predators cannot usually kill. In Yellowstone, 90% of their winter prey is elk; 10–15% of their summer prey is deer. They also kill bison. Many …

The future of wolves in the GYE will largely depend on the management of livestock depredation, wolf hunting outside the park, and the social acceptance of coexistence with wolves.

Aug 19, 2024 · Following pressure from Yellowstone National Park and locals living north of the park boundary, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday unanimously adopted an amendment to the wolf and furbearer regulations for the upcoming hunting season that will split Wolf Management Unit 313 – just north of the park boundary – back into two ...

Jul 23, 2024 · In a letter to the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission, Yellowstone National park superintendent called for tighter wolf hunting regs near the park. He said roughly 10 percent of Yellowstone's wolves were killed during the last hunting season, and he asked commissioners to change how they set wolf quotas near the park.

Aug 30, 2024 · Following pressure from Yellowstone National Park and locals living north of the park boundary, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday unanimously adopted an amendment to the wolf and furbearer regulations for the upcoming hunting season that will split Wolf Management Unit 313 – just north of the park boundary – back into two ...

Aug 16, 2024 · The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has set this hunting season's wolf harvest quota numbers and adjusted how the state manages wolves bordering Yellowstone National Park.

Aug 19, 2024 · These changes will reduce the risk that entire Yellowstone packs can be killed just across the park boundary and ban the use of motion tracking devices (e.g., telemetry) as hunting practices that could provide an unfair advantage to wolf hunters.

Jul 22, 2024 · Yellowstone superintendent seeks hunting relief for wolves after another deadly winter From Cap City News: The 2023-24 winter proved the third deadliest for Yellowstone wolves in the decades since Canis lupus was reintroduced to the landscape in 1995.