BILLINGS, Mont. — Wolf hunting restrictions in portions of Montana bordering Yellowstone National Park are protecting the park’s animals from a repeat of a previous hunt when almost half the members of a well-known pack were killed, federal and state officials said Wednesday.

As of the latest updates, 260 wolves are dead, but that’s not enough blood as one state debates extending their season and the other has… well… no intention of stopping any time soon.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission is meeting today and tomorrow  to consider extending the wolf hunt to the end of January.

In what is the first documented wolf incident in far southeastern Montana since reintroduction, a male black wolf was shot by a Hammond-area rancher on Sunday after it attacked his sheep.

HAMILTON, Mont. — A southwestern Montana sportsmen’s group is hoping to encourage wolf hunting in the Bitterroot Valley by holding a drawing for a rifle from among the names of those who successfully bag a wolf in December.

There are just poignant, and somber moments that most be observed as this year’s bloody massacre continues just hundreds of miles north of Colorado. Passing 200 dead wolves AND the return of trapping are certainly two of those moments… and they both happened November 15.

(AP) PASADENA, Calif. — Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its authority in stripping federal protections from the canines.

It’s been a little while since I last updated the site. Sure, there have been plenty of stories I saw that I could post, but it all paled in comparison to the massacre happening just north of Colorado.

Montana raises their quota, as planned, to over 200, but wolves are proving quite elusive. Idaho hunters are killing wolves at a pace of more than one a day.

About 30 protesters gathered in drizzling rain on the Capitol lawn Friday, calling on Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer to end wolf hunting in Montana and advocating for an economic boycott of tourism here and in Idaho and Wyoming.