wolf hunt

About 2,500 hunting licenses were issued.

A dozen wolves were legally harvested in the first 40 hours Sunday, over a quarter of the total wolves that can be killed in the state's managed hunt area.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has set a quota of 44 wolves to be taken.

The agency is again proposing gray wolf hunting seasons within the Trophy Game Management Area.

Governor Matt Mead said he is disappointed in Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling Tuesday which remanded wolf managment back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Game and Fish Department says it is very important for all surveys to be completed, even if the hunter was unsuccessful or did not go hunting.

Other wolf hunt areas already closed for the season include areas two, three, four, five, seven and 10.

Game and Fish officials say as with other trophy game species, wolves in these areas are managed under a mortality quota system.

Officials with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department say it's impossible to determine if the two male and three female wolves killed recently in a hunt area northeast of Cody were all members of the Lamar Canyon Pack.

People will be able to dispose of military munitions during an amnesty day at the camp Guernsey joint training center later this month. Hunters have killed half the allowable number of wolves in a trophy hunting area bordering Yellowstone National Park...