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Billings, Mont. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates the number of gray wolves in the northern Rockies has increased since last year, to 912 animals, largely because of continued growth in Idaho.
The number in Montana is up from the 2004 year-end estimate but below 2003’s level; it is down in Wyoming, where illness and competition for food and territory in Yellowstone National Park seem to have hit the population hard, according to the agency’s mid-year estimate.
Overall, the population is doing well and is up from December, when an estimated 835 wolves roamed the region.
