Congressional negotiators, at the insistence of the White House, killed a budget rider that would have prohibited lawsuits against a pending agreement to remove Wyoming wolves from the endangered species list, U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said Friday.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Some Environmental groups say they intend to press the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand protections for wolves in Wyoming when the federal agency takes public comment next week on a wolf management plan.

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.

Learning how to howl like a wolf and how to identify wolf tracks are examples of educational events for this week’s National Wolf Awareness Week. In Wyoming, the state is on the cusp of taking over management of grey wolves.

 CHEYENNE, WYO. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday released a plan for removing wolves from endangered species status in Wyoming that would codify a compromise between protections in the Yellowstone region and allowing wolves to be shot on sight elsewhere in the state.

ï» The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission on Wednesday approved changes to the state’s wolf management plan — the first step toward removing the animals from the federal endangered species list.

ï»  Wyoming’s wolf “management” plan includes shoot-on-sight provisions for much of the state, however, some of that is national forest, which belongs to all Americans – and that includes the wolves those forests contain.

ï» The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would likely accept changes to a deal with Wyoming that would prohibit indiscriminate killing of wolves throughout Teton County, a county commissioner said last week.

ï» Cheyenne, Wyo. (Little Chicago Review) – The Wyoming Wildlife Federation Board of Directors voted this past weekend to support Governor Mead’s Wolf Plan that he has negotiated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

ï» CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Billings Gazette)  — Last week’s announcement of an agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state of Wyoming to remove the state’s roughly 340 wolves from the endangered species list was a landmark step in resolving a yearslong fight.