The federal government removed the gray wolf from the endangered list in the Northern Rocky Mountains in 2011, essentially leaving wolves’ fates in the hands of state fish-and-game departments, hunters and ranchers.

This holiday, a killing contest takes aim at two of the most persecuted predators in North America: wolves and coyotes.

Conservation groups asked a federal judge on Monday to block an Idaho hunting competition targeting wolves and coyotes that is supported by many ranchers and sportsmen but that wildlife advocates have opposed as a “killing contest.”

Results from an ongoing investigation into a Wyoming wildlife trapper accused of mistreating animals will not be made public upon the investigation’s completion, a spokeswoman for the investigating agency says.

Idaho guide and outfitter Shane McAfee appears to have a pretty good business deal that private land competitors do not enjoy.

A predator-killing contest scheduled for next week near Salmon is offering $1,000 prizes for the biggest wolf killed and for the most coyotes killed.

They say U.S. critter assassins work in secret, quietly laying traps, lacing food with poison, sniping at targets from helicopters.

The representation of nonhuman animals (animals) in media based on bad science or no science is bad for the animals — and it contributes to an unrelenting war on wildlife.

The first statewide competition in decades to hunt wolves and coyotes in Idaho has sparked outrage among wildlife conservationists, who condemned it as “an organized killing contest.”

Newton police are advising residents to keep an eye out for some recently spotted four-legged neighbors: a family of three coyotes glimpsed sleeping under an Auburndale Avenue porch early Tuesday morning.

Albuquerque lost a pioneering advocate for wildlife in November when Susan Weiss succumbed to a three-year battle with lung cancer.

My husband and I live on the Bar C R ranch in Petaluma, CA where we run 300 mother cows using predator friendly ranching methods.

If the October headlines were any indication, the quickest way for a wolf to make the news is to get shot.

By the time this blog goes live this photo will probably have been pulled from Facebook.

History has demonstrated clearly that societal values and perceived needs ultimately determine the treatment and often survival of species such as the wolf.

Wolves play an integral role in maintaining the health of wildlife and ecosystems, and indirectly, livestock and public health.

There was a time when wolves lived in every part of North America.

Big Otis never stopped barking.

Most people have never heard of the cruel practice of penning, although it is legal in 19 states.

In the picturesque community of Marin County California- just North of San Francisco- public controversy over the use of poisons, snares, “denning” (the killing coyote and fox pups in their dens), and other lethal methods led to a majority decision by the Marin County Board of Supervisors to stop contracting with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services predator control program in 2000.