Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s recent statement about wolves was likely a response to constituent concerns: for this he cannot be faulted. However, his call for wolves to be killed in the Bitterroot Valley ...

Gray wolves in and around Yellowstone National Park haven't had a severe impact on elk populations or the agriculture industry, according to the lead coordinator for wolf recovery in the region.

Bison are playing a larger role in the sustenance of park wolves compared to past years as Yellowstone National Park’s bison herd has swelled and elk numbers have declined, according to the ...

Previous research on the effect of wolves on the food web has been criticized, raising questions about the predator’s role in ...

Scientific research has long assumed gray wolves are non-migratory during springtime, staying anchored to tend to litters of nearly helpless pups. For the first weeks of life, after all, pups are ...

Gray wolf pups are born nearly helpless: blind, deaf and lacking the acute sense of smell of their elders. They usually remain in the safe confines of their den until they are at least three weeks old ...

It didn't come as a surprise to researchers that the re-introduction of wolves in certain parts of the northern U.S. would reduce deer and elk herds, and thus reduce automobile accidents with those ...

JACKSON - The doldrums of winter may be a boring time for some, but for wildlife and wildlife-watchers in the Gros Ventre River drainage it is one of the more exciting, and to some,troubling times of ...

In the overheated debate over wolves in Idaho, the most common argument by those who want the predators destroyed is that wolves are decimating the state’s elk population. Not so much, it turns out.

There's only one time a giant domino chain isn't fun: when you're a domino. Humans are great knockers-down of ecosystem domino chains, and sometimes we don't even know which species we've felled until ...

SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. — In far Northern California, beneath a towering mountain ridge still covered in April snow, one of the state’s last cowboys stood in the tall green grass of a pasture he tends ...