InvestigateWest: Yellowstone Park’s celebrity wolves are dying in Montana’s wolf hunt

From InvestigateWest, the investigative news site created by some former P-I reporters and editors:

The wolf hunt in Montana hasn’t gone as planned, with wolves in the state’s wilderness area along the northern border of Yellowstone National Park taking the brunt of the hunt.

Nine wolves have been killed there, in a small area of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Four of those wolves were from the park’s Cottonwood Pack, including the pack’s breeding female. Hunting was suspended last week after state wildlife commissioners became concerned about the heavy killing in the area, Associated Press reporter Matthew Brown reports.