The return of gray wolves to California, once celebrated as a conservation triumph, has taken a troubling turn. After more than a century of absence, these magnificent predators are facing lethal ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has begun evaluating the state’s Wolf-Livestock Compensation Program to determine whether changes are needed as gray wolves continue to ...

Wild gray wolves have killed dozens of livestock in the Sierra Nevada mountains in recent months, prompting California wildlife officials to take the extreme action of euthanizing several of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A veterinarian and biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife monitor LAS23F, a gray wolf from the Beyem Seyo ...

March 10, 2026 - The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has started a process to evaluate California’s Wolf-Livestock Compensation Program (WLCP).

A 3-year-old gray wolf known as BEY03F seen in Tulare County. (Image credit:California Department of Fish and Wildlife) A 3-year-old gray wolf may be roaming in Los Angeles County in search of a mate ...

Wildlife crews are no longer actively searching for two juvenile gray wolves who were part of a pack that killed dozens of cows and calves last summer in Northern California’s Sierra Valley, an ...

Wildlife managers are now tracking five more gray wolves in Northern California with satellite tracking collars. The operation to fit the animals with the collars happened in mid-January, according to ...

The Trump administration said this week that it would not develop a new recovery plan for gray wolves, a move environmentalists say could be a first step toward removing endangered species protections ...

The removal of the Beyem Seyo wolf pack from the wild is a tragedy - and one that was completely avoidable. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's decision to kill four wolves in mid-October ...