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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) officials have released a draft hunting plan for Yellowstone grizzly bears.

A new study funded by the National Park Service has posited a link between wolf hunts and wolf sightings in Yellowstone National Park.

Bison operations have ended today and the final numbers are incoming.

A coalition of environmental groups have sued the National Park Service over hunting on inholdings in Grand Teton National Park.

After vocal opposition from hunters, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has decided not to move ahead with their original elk plan for HD 313.

Three bison wounded at the Yellowstone-Montana boundary have wandered back into the Park.

New details have emerged regarding the hunting, slaughter, and/or removal of bison under the Interagency Bison Management Plan this year.

Yellowstone officials expressed displeasure at a Montana state plan to increase grey-wolf hunting that also rejects the idea of a no-hunting buffer near the Park.

A tally by wildlife biologists reveals a decline in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem elk population from 1995 to 2010, as increased predation, ongoing drought, and hunting all took their toll on the numbers -- and in the process caused a ripple effect that also took down the wolf and bear populations as well.

Exiled Yellowstone National Park bison stuck in quarantine for the past several years would get a little breathing room, as Montana officials propose temporarily moving YNP bison enclosed at Corwin Springs to three wildlife areas controlled by the state. But there's one big condition: they'd be hunted sometime down the line.