Gary Kramer / AP Washington’s wolf population is down for the first time since resident packs were confirmed to be returning to the state about 16 years ago, new figures show. The state and tribes ...

Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members have been told by agency staff that wolves have made an impressive recovery — to the point that their “endangered” status is no longer required. But ...

Washington’s wolf population declined in 2024, even as attacks on livestock reached an all-time high, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish and Wildlife and the Colville tribe ...

Riders bunch herds up at night when wolves are most active, and they make sure calves stay close to their moms.

Some ranchers are saying it is time to find creative ways to deal with wolf attacks on livestock. That’s what a new bill in the Washington state Senate hopes to do — to the frustration of some ...

The gray wolf population in Washington may no longer be considered to be endangered. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is preparing to take a vote that may result in the removal of ...

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 ...

Wildlife experts captured wolves in Oregon and released them in Grand County in December 2023. (PHOTO: Screengrab via Colorado Parks and Wildlife from video footage shot by Jerry Neal). Washington’s ...

An endangered American red wolf born and raised in a Washington state sanctuary and released into the wild earlier this year in North Carolina has fathered a litter of eight pups, doubling the size of ...

This Nov. 7, 2017, photo released by the National Park Service shows a wolf in the road near Artist Paintpots in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Wolves have repopulated the mountains and forests of ...