Wolf attacks appear to follow seasonal patterns reflecting the feeding needs of wolf packs, livestock calving and grazing cycles.
Rocky Mountain Wolves
Mexican gray wolf population declines for third successive year
The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves confirmed in the wild declined for the third successive year as a result of trapping and shooting by the U.S. government.
Wolves drive trophic cascade in Banff National Park
A research team studied the recolonization of the canine predator in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park.
Idaho’s Whitehawk wolf pack killed
The action was a consequence of one sheep and two calves being killed in the East Fork of the Salmon River, upstream of WWP’s Greenfire Preserve.
Judge rules wolf-reintroduction unlawful
The U.S. District Court for Wyoming on December 12, 1997 held that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s final rules establishing a nonessential experimental population of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho and southwestern Montana are unlawful and ordered the Service to remove all of the reintroduced wolves and their offspring from the Yellowstone and central Idaho areas.
