Shannon Maness

Wildlife managers this week decided to increase this year's wolf hunting and trapping quota by more than 100 animals and change how wolf hunting regions are divided.

State wildlife officials will take up a proposal Thursday to overhaul hunting regulations in order to reduce wolf numbers statewide. But locals near Yellowstone National Park say the proposal would impact the region’s vulnerable wolf population and the economy built around it.

Legislators have voted forward bills on property tax relief, Medicaid expansion, judicial oversight and more.

Roughly half the wolves in Montana could be killed under proposals state lawmakers are considering.