FWP said it believed the fifth wolf was “unknowingly wounded” when the four other wolves – two females and two males – were killed on the morning of Oct. 25.
Prior to 2020, one biologist advocated for delisting grizzlies, but all the anti-predator bills passed by Montana’s Republican governor and legislators changed his mind.
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a rule passed under the Trump administration to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the Lower 48 states.
The next group of gray wolves that Colorado’s wildlife agency will release in the state as part of a voter-approved reintroduction program will come from across the Canadian border.
Wildlife advocates said Monday that they were “devastated” by the death of a reintroduced wolf that was captured late last month following a series of livestock depredations in the Middle Park area.
Missoula federal district judge Donald Molloy announced that he would not consider a summary judgment ruling on whether the state of Montana was harming grizzly bears by allowing wolf trapping in areas where bears could be moving.