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Wolverines face numerous threats and only 300 exist in the Lower 48. Their supporters are finally notching a win.

A ballot initiative seeking to allow landowners to hunt elk, deer and black bears on their property hit a setback Wednesday when the Environmental Quality Counc

Conservation groups in Montana and the West largely applauded the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday to list the North American wolverine as a threatened species, but some said they remain concerned that the animals could still be incidentally trapped under the interim rule.

Leaders with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks say it’s been 25 years since there have been major updates to the administrative rules that govern the state’s block management program.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service noted threats posed by climate change and habitat loss in its announcement.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that it’s moving forward with federal protections for wolverines, a reclusive and wide-ranging carnivore.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ordered a preliminary injunction requiring Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks to limit all wolf trapping and snaring in the state west of Billings.

Department agrees to public records training, more comment time for group.

For the fourth time this year, an outdoorsman in Montana shot and killed a charging grizzly bear, claiming it was in self-defense.

Newly bound by a settlement between a wolf advocacy group and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the seven-member Fish and Wildlife Commission charged with “wise