Gray Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Mountain-Prairie Region
News, Information and Recovery Status Reports
Gray wolf

Background Information:

Annual Reports:

Wyoming Status Reports:

Weekly Reports:

From March 28th through early September 2008, we discontinued the interagency weekly reports, because the NRM wolf population had been delisted and the States had management authority for those wolves.

Other Federal Wolf Recovery Programs:

Solicitor's Opinions

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Authority under Section 4(c)(l) of the Endangered Species Act to Revise Lists of Endangered and Threatened Species to " Reflect Recent Determinations "

The Meaning of "In Danger of Extinction Throughout Allor a Significant Portion of its Range"


April 2009 -- Final Rule to Identify the Northern Rocky Mountain (NRM) Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment (DPS) and to Revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

FWS Announces Final Rule to Identify the Northern Rocky Mountain (NRM) Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment (DPS) and to Revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

October 2008 - Reopening of Comment Period on Proposed Rule Establishing and Delisting the NRM Gray Wolf DPS

U.S. District Court for the District of Montana Court Orders

February 2008 - Final Rule Establishing and Delisting the NRM Gray Wolf DPS

January 2008 - Final Rule for Revision of Special Regulation for the Central Idaho and Yellowstone Area Nonessential Experimental Populations of Gray Wolves

July 2007 - Reopening of Comment Period on Proposed Rule Establishing and Delisting the NRM Gray Wolf DPS

Federal Register Notice


February 2007 - Proposed rule Establishing and Delisting the NRM Gray Wolf DPS

August 1, 2006 - FWS Announces 12-Month Finding on a Petition to Establish and Delist the NRM Gray Wolf Population:

January 2005 - New Regulation (10(j) Special Rule) Allows Greater Management Flexibility of Gray Wolves for the States of Montana and Idaho:

2005 - Final Rule to Change Status of Gray Wolf Throughout Most of the Lower 48 States Overturned:

2003 - Final Rule to Designate 3 District Population Segments and Change the ESA Status of the Gray Wolf throughout Most of the Lower 48 States:

1994 - Establishment of Nonessential Experimental Populations of Gray Wolves:

1978 - Reclassification of the Gray Wolf in the United States and Mexico, with Determination of Critical Habitat in Michigan and Minnesota:

1974 - Gray Wolf Listed as Endangered in the Lower 48 States and Mexico:

Wolf Management Memorandums of Agreement

Proposed State Wolf Management in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming:

Other State and Tribal Wolf Management:


Last updated: August 24, 2009