The question of how many wolves a region can sustain without tipping the balance against prey herds, livestock operations, and the wolves themselves has no clean answer. Since the federal government ...

Oregon’s wolf population increased last year after four years of nearly flat growth, with the animals continuing to expand their habitat westward, according to a new state report. The population grew ...

"Many, many of the populations that have been reintroduced to different areas would be considered way too small by genetic models, and their possibility of success deemed very low, but many of those ...

Burtenshaw said he pushed for the law because his constituents told him there are too many wolves eating too much livestock. “The big thing was the amount of farmers and ranchers that were dealing ...

Washington’s wolf numbers shrank slightly last year for the first time in 16 years. The Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2024 Wolf Conservation and Management Report put the year-end minimum count ...

This story was updated on January 8, 2026. 2025 was an eventful year for Mexican wolves. The imperiled predators — a subspecies of gray wolf reintroduced to the Southwest in 1998 — appeared to be ...