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  Wolf stars fade

  March 21, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C14 After a somewhat dominating 14-year reign in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone National Park, one of the park’s most-prolific and most-viewed gray wolf packs in the world may have perished. …

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  Hunting hasn’t slowed wolves

  March 21, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C13 At least 1,706 gray wolves in 242 packs and 115 breeding pairs were roaming the Northern Rockies of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming at the end of 2009, according to reports …

• Wolf population rose last year in Northern Rockies

  March 11, 2010 in Idaho The wolf population in the Northern Rockies rose last year, but at the slowest rate in nearly 15 years, according to a report released Thursday by U.S. Fish and Wildlife …

• Yellowstone wolves decline in ’09

  February 21, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C13 PREDATORS – The number of wolves in Yellowstone National Park declined about 23 percent in 2009, a change park biologists say is typical of natural fluctuations for wildlife species. Yellowstone’s …

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  Elusive target

  February 17, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A1 AVERY, Idaho – Milt Turley wants to shoot a wolf. He and his wife, Kay, live in close proximity to the shaggy-haired predators. Wolf tracks have appeared on the couple’s … 7

• Actual wolf weights often skimpier than hunters estimate

  February 17, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A1 Rumors of 150-pound wolves abound in the Idaho Panhandle, but most of the wolves taken by hunters are much smaller. Adult females averaged 86 pounds, according to Idaho Department of …

• Wolves touted as park stewards

  February 8, 2010 in City on Page A6 BILLINGS – With ballooning elk and deer populations eating up greenery and altering ecosystems at national parks across the country, a group of researchers is suggesting an unusual solution: Introduce … 1

• Idaho closes another wolf hunting area

  February 2, 2010 in Idaho State wildlife managers say another Idaho wolf hunting zone has been shut down after hunters filled a state quota. 8

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  Wolf toll on livestock increases

  January 31, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C11 Gray wolves killed livestock in Montana at the rate of an animal per day in 2009, stirring a backlash against the predators in rural areas and depleting a program that …

• Wyoming argues for wolf oversight

  January 30, 2010 in City on Page B3 CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has no legitimate reason for its refusal to turn over management of gray wolves to the state of Wyoming, the state …

• Idaho wolf advocate posts hunters’ names on Web

  January 29, 2010 in Idaho A Boise wolf advocate has used a public records request to get the names of hunters who reported killing a wolf in Idaho and posted all 122 names on a … 4

• Tapeworms infect wolf packs

  January 20, 2010 in Outdoors, City on Page A5 A Washington State University wildlife researcher said he was “absolutely shocked to see such a high prevalence” of tapeworms found in Rocky Mountain gray wolves. “Some of these wolves had … 1

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  Cascade wolf sightings increase

  January 18, 2010 in City on Page A8 GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Wolves that have moved into Oregon from Idaho appear to be extending their range west, with recent sightings in the southern Cascades and the Ochoco Mountains. …

• Wolf plans at different stages

  November 26, 2009 in Outdoors on Page B1 As Wash- ington continues to formulate a wolf management plan and Idaho has extended the first wolf hunting season in decades, Montana wildlife managers are regrouping. Montana’s first fair-chase wolf …

• Wolf season extended by three months

  November 20, 2009 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A7 Idaho’s wolf hunt will be extended through March 31, or until each hunting zone reaches its quota, the state’s Fish and Game Commission decided at a Thursday meeting in Coeur …

• Idaho’s wolf-hunting season extended three months

  November 19, 2009 in Idaho Idaho’s wolf hunt will be extended through March 31, or until each hunting zone reaches its quota, the state’s Fish and Game Commission decided at a Thursday meeting in Coeur …

• Idaho shuts another wolf hunting zone

  November 17, 2009 in Idaho State officials say hunters have reached their limit for killing wolves in a hunting zone in northern Idaho.

• Outside View: Washington state’s plans for wolves reasonable

  November 17, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 We have wolves in Washington. Wolves are not optional. We cannot declare the state a wolf-free zone or build an impenetrable wolf barrier along our border to keep the interloper …

• Idaho may consider extending wolf hunt season

  November 16, 2009 in Idaho, Region Idaho wildlife officials are thinking about extending the wolf hunting season in certain hunting zones across the state.

• Wolf hunting closed in eastern Idaho zone

  November 2, 2009 in Region Hunters reached the five-wolf limit in eastern Idaho’s Upper Snake Wolf Zone, prompting state wildlife managers to close the season there. 4

• Wolf plan meeting Tuesday in Spokane

  October 25, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C13 ENDANGERED SPECIES – Public comments will be heard in Spokane on Tuesday on a recently released draft management plan with guidelines for removing gray wolves from Washington’s state endangered species …

• State may pay wolf-kill damages

  October 19, 2009 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – Hoping to ease Washington ranchers’ concerns about gray wolves, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing what may be the most generous compensation in the West …

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  Wolf plan to get public hearings

  October 18, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 A draft management and conservation plan released recently for gray wolves in Washington presents a blueprint for ushering the predators through their gradual revival to eventual delisting from state endangered … 1

• Montana suspends wolf hunting near Yellowstone

  October 8, 2009 in Outdoors, Region Montana wildlife officials suspended wolf hunting near Yellowstone National Park on Thursday, after nine kills in just three weeks pushed the area’s wolf harvest close to its season-long limit. 1

• 29 wolves shot in Idaho so far this hunting season

  October 7, 2009 in Outdoors, Idaho Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials said a female wolf with the Phantom Hill pack was killed by a hunter, marking the 29th wolf kill since Idaho’s hunting season …

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  Fish and Wildlife unveils wolf plan

  October 7, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5 International borders and state lines are no deterrent to gray wolves, which are drifting into Washington from neighboring packs in British Columbia, Idaho and Montana. At least two wolf packs …

• First North Idaho wolf kill reported

  October 2, 2009 in City, Idaho A wolf was shot in the Marble Creek area of the St. Joe River drainage Thursday during the opening day of wolf season in the Idaho Panhandle. 6

• Idaho man illegally shot at wolf pack from sky

  October 1, 2009 in Idaho, Region BOISE — A shotgun-wielding motorized parachutist fired on a pack of wolves earlier this year from the eastern Idaho sky, something forbidden even under a state permit that allows aerial … 3

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  Out & About

  September 27, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 World-record bass caught in Japan OUTCAST – The world-record largemouth bass that trophy anglers have been stalking for decades from Florida to California apparently has been caught – by a …

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  Idaho’s new hunt

  September 17, 2009 in Sports on Page K4 More than 15,000 hunters have purchased tags for the first authorized wolf hunts in some 80 years in Idaho and Montana. Experts say few of these hunters are likely to …

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