Gary Kramer / AP Washington’s wolf population is down for the first time since resident packs were confirmed to be returning to the state about 16 years ago, new figures show. The state and tribes ...

Washington’s wolf population declined in 2024, even as attacks on livestock reached an all-time high, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish and Wildlife and the Colville tribe ...

The gray wolf population in Washington bounced back last year after recording its first decline in 16 years. Washington had at least 270 wolves across 49 packs at the end of 2025, according to the ...

An endangered American red wolf born and raised in a Washington state sanctuary and released into the wild earlier this year in North Carolina has fathered a litter of eight pups, doubling the size of ...

This Nov. 7, 2017, photo released by the National Park Service shows a wolf in the road near Artist Paintpots in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Wolves have repopulated the mountains and forests of ...

Washington’s wolf numbers shrank slightly last year for the first time in 16 years. The Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2024 Wolf Conservation and Management Report put the year-end minimum count ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.— Washington’s wolf population increased by 17.4% last year and the number of successful breeding pairs increased by 27%, according to figures released today by the Washington Department ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) are looking for the killer of a federally listed endangered gray wolf. The male wolf was killed in ...

The gray wolf population in Washington has experienced positive growth since breeding pairs returned to the state in 2008. That positive growth was unexpectedly stunted in 2024 when the population ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gray wolf. (Photo by Gary Kramer/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Washington’s wolf population is down for the first time since ...