Authorities are releasing few details about four wolf pups discovered dead late last week on public land south of Jackson.

A Wyoming law prohibits wildlife managers from identifying anyone who legally kills a wolf — or releasing information that could lead to such an ID.

“At this point we can’t confirm, one way or another, whether they were legally taken or how they died,” Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokesman Mark Gocke said. “The state statute says that if they’re legally taken, we have to release information in aggregate.”

The four wolf pups were born this year, so they would have been about 4 or 5 months old. They were taken to the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory in Laramie for necropsies.

Gocke could get no more specific than saying that they were reported dead on public land south of Jackson on Thursday within Game and Fish’s “trophy game” wolf…