U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Following a court-mandated deadline this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed wolverines as a “threatened” species. Conservation groups have been calling for that protection since the early 2000s.

A federal court shortened Montana’s wolf trapping by over two months. The ruling aims to protect grizzlies.

Federal wildlife officials are abandoning a conservation plan for Arctic grayling at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Montana.

Choteau residents are being warned to watch out for a grizzly bear recently wounded near Freezeout Lake. A new cancer treatment center has opened in Lewistown. Montana will get more than one million dollars in federal aid for sagebrush conservation efforts.

The commission that oversees management of Montana’s fish and wildlife is meeting in Helena on Aug. 17. Commissioners will vote on hunting, fishing and trapping regulations in the meeting.

Two wildlife advocacy groups have formally notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of their intent to sue over recent changes made to Montana’s wolf trapping laws.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park officials killed a food-conditioned grizzly bear in Big Sky.

A federal judge in Missoula temporarily halted work Wednesday on a conservation plan for Arctic grayling in the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness Area in southwestern Montana. Meanwhile, Whitefish Lake water levels are dropping.

Glacier National Park officials killed a collared female grizzly bear July 20 after determining it became conditioned to eat human food.

A federal judge halted a logging project in northwest Montana on Monday. The court says federal officials didn’t properly evaluate whether the project would harm threatened grizzly bears and Canada lynx.