Idaho officials are not fooled when a local woman tries a plan to influence the quota count through subterfuge.

The sixth wolf hunting zone has closed in Idaho after the quota was met, but dozens more wolves are earmarked for extermination.

Defenders of Wildlife has started a new campaign targeting those who supported the Idaho predator derbies, in which each wolf killed earned the hunting team three points towards winning prizes.

An Idaho man who shot a wolf illegally in June 2008 must pay restitution, but will not face charges.

After a year which was marked by a number of steps backwards for America’s wolves, wolf advocates are preparing for another year of fights – and do so by asking for last minute donations.

According to the Idaho Fish and Game website, the Palouse-Hells Canyon zone closed Friday, December.

A recently published study by researchers from Washington State University has shown that wolves in Idaho and Montana are now carriers of a wild strain of tapeworms – but there is no evidence the parasite can be transmitted to domestic livestock.

With 3 months left in the Idaho wolf hunts, stretching in to wolf mating season, a brief examination of the numbers reveal gaping holes in Idaho’s math and highlight a true desire by the state to drive wolf numbers down significantly.

James William Gibson, professor of socialogy and author of A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature, wrote an editorial piece for the LA Times.

  Ralph Maughan, on his well respected blog, reports the aerial shooting of a pack of Idaho wolves.