After the 2021 Legislature passed a slew of bills that legalized more methods to trap wolves - including snares and baiting - FWP set a floating start date for the trapping season in an effort to avoid conflict with grizzlies. For most of the state west of Bozeman, Helena and Great Falls,...
47,51, and wide-ranging species are vulnerable to human-caused mortality in all but the largest protected areas5. For example, mortality risk for wolves (Canis lupus) in our study area increased 6.7 times when they travelled outside parks52. Wolverine have low...
Monitoring populations of elusive large carnivores like wolves (Canis lupus), which are often distributed at low density in widespread forested areas, is difficult or exceedingly expensive. Aiming to assess the power of two indirect monitoring methods, non-invasive genetic sampling and camera trapping,...