IN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE, NEW HUNTING AND TRAPPING REGULATIONS WOULD ALLOW EVERY WOLF COMING INTO STATE FROM AMERICA’S FIRST NATIONAL PARK TO BE KILLED AS A TROPHY

https://mountainjournal.org/montana-hunting-laws-put-yellowstone-wolves-in-the-crosshairs

byTodd WilkinsonSUPPORT USGET NEWSLETTERPhoto by Jacob W. Frank/NPS; graphic element added by Gus O’Keefe
By Todd Wilkinson
For the first autumn in 27 years, the most famous population of wild wolves in the world has essentially no protection when members of its packs wander across the invisible boundary of Yellowstone National Park into Montana.
Montana’s controversial new wolf management laws, designed to reduce wolf numbers in the state to the lowest level they can be without triggering a return to federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, come into sharpest focus perhaps on the northern edge of America’s first national park.
Any wolf that lives most of its life in Yellowstone and crosses the boundary…