Blair Miller

Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission took steps toward implementing a statewide wolf quota for the upcoming season but agreed to keep a ceiling in place for the only region of the state where the population is in decline.

There will be a statewide quota of 452 wolves that can be hunted or trapped in Montana for the 2025-26 season and no regional quotas except for in Region 3 in southwest Montana, where wolf harvest will be capped at 60, and in two special wolf management units north of Yellowstone National Park, both of which will have quotas of three wolves.

Additionally, a person would be able to kill up to 30 wolves in the season — 15 through hunting and 15 through trapping — as long as five are taken through each method in either Regions 1 or 2 in western Montana, whe

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