This winter saw the most wolves from Yellowstone National Park killed in about a century. That's because states neighboring the park changed hunting rules in an effort to reduce the animals' numbers.

From 2021-2024, that number nearly tripled when an average of 12.75 wolves died annually, according to Yellowstone Wolf Project data. It was clear to Doug Smith, retired lead of the Yellowstone Wolf ...

Seventeen Yellowstone National Park wolves were killed in 2024, and among them was the fabled one-eyed female, 907F – the fifth -oldest wolf recorded in the park at 11.7 years old. She was killed by ...

Wolves in Yellowstone National Park have experienced a 27% decline in population in 2025.

Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...