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USDA Wildlife Services conducted 9.5% fewer investigations of livestock depredations and confirmed nearly 46% fewer as wolf-caused compared to a year earlier.

Originally published June 29 in the Spokesman-Review.The city of Sandpoint had 170 geese killed last month because they were pooping on a public beach.

Originally published June 29 in the Spokesman-Review.

The city of Sandpoint in North Idaho had 170 geese killed last week because they were pooping on a public beach.

The city of Sandpoint in North Idaho had 170 geese killed last week because they were pooping on a public beach.

USDA Wildlife Services has put radio collars on 10 wolves this year in Idaho, fewer than planned because of the unusually heavy snow. The collars help wildlife managers track the

The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board at its Nov. 22 meeting voted to pay USDA Wildlife Services to conduct collaring operations this winter. Collaring aims to optimize wolf control and

"The wolves scared the hell out of them and pushed them into that little canyon and piled them in there. They didn't consume anything"

“[The wolves] didn’t consume anything,” Rancher Frank Shirts said in a press release from the IRRC. “The sheep just suffocated in the pileup and died. We work to make things good for those sheep every day, so it’s a shame to lose them.”

BOISE, Idaho — Two adult wolves trying to attack a band of sheep grazing on the backside of Shaw Mountain caused a sheep pile-up in a steep gully, killing 143 ewes and lambs, state and…