{"id":430930,"date":"2026-01-24T20:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430930\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:26:06","slug":"reward-for-illegally-killed-wolf-increased-to-31k-daily-montanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430930\/","title":{"rendered":"Reward for illegally killed wolf increased to $31k \u2022 Daily Montanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced this week that the reward for information about a wolf killed out-of-season has increased by $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>FWP originally announced a $1,000 reward for information on a wolf killed in wolf management unit 313, just north of Yellowstone National Park. The three-wolf quota for the unit was reached by hunters in mid-November, but wildlife officials found a wolf collar cut off an animal and thrown into a tree in late December.<\/p>\n<p>Game wardens believe the collared wolf was killed around 10 p.m., on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Large Carnivore Fund and Wolves of the Rockies together offered the additional $30,000 reward for information to help wildlife officials.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with\u00a0possible information\u00a0is encouraged to contact Gardiner game warden Kameron Rauser at 406-224-5207 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Ffwp.mt.gov%2Faboutfwp%2Fenforcement%2Ftip-mont\/1\/0101019bc861047c-8ba828cd-6b96-46cb-9bd8-3b6c3b5532ef-000000\/oJwvqhKWIC0HzrnKFOk6YZ9aSuHGJzkYQxjxFS44fXA=440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%252F%252Ffwp.mt.gov%252Faboutfwp%252Fenforcement%252Ftip-mont\/1\/0101019bc861047c-8ba828cd-6b96-46cb-9bd8-3b6c3b5532ef-000000\/oJwvqhKWIC0HzrnKFOk6YZ9aSuHGJzkYQxjxFS44fXA%3D440&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1769013048273000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Z0vqfb6rNSq0MROPpbIBD\">tipmont.mt.gov<\/a>\u00a0to provide details. Members of the public who bring contact the department with tips may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced this week that the reward for information about a wolf killed out-of-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-430930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}