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  Hungry wolf pack rearranges balance in Yellowstone Park

  January 15, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C12 Typically content to stay in Yellowstone National Park’s remote Pelican Valley where they specialize in killing bison, Mollie’s wolf pack has migrated more than 20 miles to the Lamar Valley … 1

• Gray wolves rebound but face uncertain future

  December 21, 2011 After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual … 3

• Field reports: State Parks staff to be cut 30 percent

  December 11, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 PUBLIC LANDS – Nearly a third of Washington’s year-round state parks staffers are being notified this week they likely will be laid off as a result of lagging sales of …

• Panel approves proposed wolf plan

  December 4, 2011 in Outdoors, City on Page B3 OLYMPIA – The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Saturday approved a proposed plan for managing gray wolves, a decision sure to spark criticism from hunting and livestock groups that … 1

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  Commission will consider wolf proposal next weekend

  November 27, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 After four years of development, extensive public review – and lingering controversy – the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider adopting a plan for managing wolves as they re-establish … 6

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  Idaho wolf trapping season opens Tuesday

  November 13, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 The first wolf trapping season since the predators were reintroduced to the Rocky Mountains will open in selected areas in the north half of Idaho on Tuesday. Demand is high …

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  Wolf hunts get court hearing

  November 9, 2011 in Outdoors, City on Page A13 PASADENA, Calif. – Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped …

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  Panel considers wolf plan

  November 4, 2011 in Outdoors, City on Page A5 Washington is already home to five packs of gray wolves, and state wildlife managers are planning for more. On Thursday, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission deliberated on a wolf … 6

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  State’s wolf plan meeting today

  November 3, 2011 in Outdoors, City on Page A8 As Washington Fish and Wildlife officials are slashing budgets for existing programs, they’re meeting in Spokane today to deal with yet another new challenge – wolves. The state Fish and … 3

• Field reports: Columbia refuge mulls camping, hunting changes

  October 2, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 OUTPLAN – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing a new management plan for the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, which could mean changes for campers, hunters and anglers. The …

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  Idaho targets wolves

  September 15, 2011 in Outdoors on Page K10 An archery hunter near Bozeman killed the first wolf to be harvested in the gray wolf hunting seasons that opened in Montana earlier this month. And at least 10 gray … 1

• Landers: Idaho wolf tag sales lagging, so far

  September 1, 2011 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 Idaho wolf tag purchases are barely better than home sales. Maybe it’s the economy or the recent lawsuits that threatened to stall the hunting season again, but wolf permits are … 1

• Charges filed in wolf poaching case

  June 8, 2011 in News A federal grand jury has indicted a Twisp, Wash., man for illegally killing two wolves near his property and trying to ship one of the pelts to Canada. 13

• Budget rider gives states wolf control

  April 15, 2011 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A1 Gray wolves in most of the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list under a policy rider attached to Congress’ budget bill. The rider returns wolf management … 22

• Litigants endorse settlement allowing wolf hunts to go on

  March 19, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 BILLINGS – Facing mounting pressure from Congress, wildlife advocates and the U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday reached an agreement to lift gray wolf protections in Idaho and Montana … 2

• Field reports: Roosevelt cabins could be removed

  February 27, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 PUBLIC LANDS – The National Park Service may require the removal of 25 private cabins that have been built and upgraded within the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. That’s one …

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  Mange study trims wolves

  February 20, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 Paul Cross found out it takes about five people to hold down an adult gray wolf for a shave. The disease ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman was …

• Field reports: Wolverines, wolves, trout

  February 20, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 WILDLIFE – Researchers studying wolverines in the North Cascades have new hopes pinned on their latest catch – Mattie. The young female may be pregnant, and if she is, she …

• Cattlemen sue feds over region’s wolves

  February 16, 2011 in News, Outdoors, Idaho, Region Washington Cattlemen’s Association has filed a lawsuit in Eastern Washington that challenges the wolf’s endangered status throughout the Northern Rockies.

• Run-in with wolves puts nature in new perspective

  November 29, 2010 in Outdoors, City, Idaho on Page A6 A North Idaho woman said she was confronted by at least four wolves between Tensed and Plummer as she walked alone up her rural driveway at dusk on Saturday. The … 71

• Montana elk hunters shoot wolf

  November 5, 2010 in Outdoors Two Montana hunters abandoned the meat from their elk and fled with their horses as a pack of wolves harassed them. After shooting in the air did not scare the … 4

• Pend Oreille wolf pack likely won’t stay as large

  October 29, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 A wolf pack with a dozen members has been spotted in northern Pend Oreille County, a state wildlife biologist confirmed. The pack, one of three confirmed in Washington state, consists …

• Wolf hunts on hold

  September 16, 2010 in Outdoors on Page K15 Wolf-hunting seasons scheduled for fall in Idaho and Montana were stopped this summer by a federal lawsuit that put wolves back under federal protection, at least for now. Gray wolves …

• Wolves among predators exacting a toll on elk in Idaho

  September 16, 2010 in Outdoors on Page K11 Since the return of wolves to Idaho 15 years ago, Idaho’s overall elk population has dropped by 20 percent from 125,000 to about 100,000. Idaho Fish and Game research in …

• Wolf killings likely to expand as agencies seek broad authority

  September 7, 2010 in Outdoors, City on Page A5 BILLINGS – Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions …

• Idaho officials to cull up to 80 wolves

  August 14, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – The Idaho Fish and Game Department released a plan late Friday to kill 70 to 80 of the 100 or so wolves in the Lolo elk management zone, … 2

• Idaho F&G unveils Clearwater wolf-kill plan

  August 13, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho The Idaho Fish and Game Department released a plan late this afternoon to kill 70 to 80 of the 100 or so wolves in the Lolo elk management zone, and … 4

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  Wolf ruling ends plans for talks on lawsuit settlement

  August 7, 2010 in Outdoors, City on Page B2 HELENA – A judge’s ruling to restore federal protections for the Rocky Mountain gray wolf has scuttled settlement talks between the parties involved in a lawsuit that had been scheduled …

• Idaho liberalizes wolf hunting rules; Montana expands quotas

  July 8, 2010 in Idaho Trapping wolves will be allowed in Idaho, and hunters can use electronic calls to attract the elusive predators, Idaho wildlife officials decided Thursday. By liberalizing hunting methods, members of Idaho’s …

• Lethal week for Montana wolves

  June 6, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C9 Fifteen gray wolves from five different packs were killed in Montana for preying on livestock between May 17 and May 21, making it one of the deadliest five-day stretches in … 1

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