Wolf Season Closes Outside Glacier National Park

Wolf hunting outside Glacier National Park has been shut down after a wolf was killed this week, filling an area quota on the predators, according to a Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Friday. The animal was taken by an archery hunter west of Glacier, one of two areas in the state where there's a specified harvest limit this hunting season. The other is north of Yellowstone National Park, where hunters have so far taken two of the three wolves that will be allowed this season. There are no quotas on wolves for the rest of Montana as officials seek to drive down the predator's population with aggressive hunting and trapping seasons. Driving Montana's wolf population below 500 animals could help reduce the predators' attacks on livestock and help elk herds rebound in areas where they have been in decline due to wolves, said Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim...more