gray wolf

A necropsy on an endangered Mexican gray wolf that died in December shows the animal was shot to death.

A young gray wolf's search for a mate apparently won't take him to the northern Nevada desert where the annual Burning Man festival is staged.

Eighty-eight years after the last gray wolf in California was killed, a young male has crossed into the state from Oregon, igniting much teeth-gnashing among ranchers, optimism among conservationists and new headaches for state officials.

A lone gray wolf has wandered across the Oregon border into California in what wildlife officials hailed Thursday as the historic return of a species not seen in the state in more than 80 years.

In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, John Stephenson, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist, searches for OR-7, a gray wolf that has wandered from the far corner of Northeast Oregon to the South Cascades, in Klamath County, Ore.

After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual states - and the wolves themselves - to determine the future of the legendary predator.

A 2 1/2 year-old male gray wolf wandering the wilds of Oregon may be the first of his kind to enter the state in nearly a century.

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf.

Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its authority in stripping federal protections from the canines.Federal biologists say the wolf population is healthy enough to support the hunts in Idaho and Montana.

Washington state wildlife officials say they've confirmed the state's fifth gray wolf pack, this one in Stevens County in the northeast corner of the state.