Gray wolves protected stay on the Endangered Species Act of 1973 may be coming to a permanent end. A forced Minnesota hunting ...

Minnesota’s gray wolves will be removed from the federal government’s threatened species list and returned to state ...

By the 1960s wolves persisted in the Lower 48 only in northern Minnesota. But with protections, including the 1973 federal Endangered Species Act, the Minnesota wolves increased in number ...

Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News says wolf-related livestock depredation complaints are at a 10-year high in northern Minnesota ...

Last week, federal officials removed the gray wolf from four decades of safeguards under the Endangered Species Act. Almost immediately afterward, Minnesota state lawmakers discussed plans to hunt ...

If the gray wolf is removed from the endangered species list, states take over hunting regulations. In Illinois, the gray ...

“The recovery and delisting of the gray wolf is an outstanding victory under the Endangered Species Act and should be celebrated accordingly,” said NCBA vice president and Minnesota rancher ...

The federal government placed wolves on the endangered species list in 1973. In 1950, wolf populations in Minnesota dipped to between 450 and 700, according to International Wolf Center statistics.

Wolves killed higher numbers of livestock in 2024, but no cattle on Johnson’s ranch were lost for the first time in nearly 20 years. (Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

In Minnesota, Peterson says a number of other programs you may not think of — like a program that hires wolf trappers, or efforts to monitor the progression of bird flu — are on hold.