A new logo featuring livestock and wolves, which already graces the letterhead of a state board, eventually will become a new specialty license plate.

Wanted: Social arbiter and diplomat in one of the most emotionally charged arenas of wildlife management. Must be a detective and data cruncher with an uncanny ability to trap live gray wolves.

According to the report written by Matthew Brown, from the Associated Press, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer said that Wyoming and Idaho had caused the talks to hit an impasse.

According to an article on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle Web site, a top official from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks warned Montana State University president that the agency might end all cooperation with the university after a scientist released a study challenging the state’s proposed wolf hunt.

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming’s governors and governor-elects all met up with Secretary of the Interior, and rancher, Ken Salazar to discuss the wolf management “issue.”

Federal authorities are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the identification and prosecution of the person or people responsible for killing two gray wolves in the Flathead National Forest.

he state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission will ask the federal government for a permit that would allow a limited wolf hunt in southwestern Montana because of the threat to the elk population there.

A tall story of terror and elk-stealing has been spun around a situation which led to a wolf being shot by a pair of Montana hunters.

Federal officials on Thursday denied Montana’s request to hunt gray wolves in response to increasing attacks on livestock and elk, leaving a settlement with environmentalists as the most immediate hope for the state to regain control over the endangered predators.

In an attempt to get around the relisting of wolves in the states of Montana and Idaho, both are attempting to get approval for a so-called “conservation hunt” from the federal government.