{"id":430187,"date":"2026-01-26T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430187\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:33:08","slug":"reward-for-illegally-killed-wolf-increased-to-31k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430187\/","title":{"rendered":"Reward for illegally killed wolf increased to $31k"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailymontanan.com\/briefs\/reward-for-illegally-killed-wolf-increased-to-31k\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Montanan<\/a>) \u2014 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (Daily Montanan) \u2014 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced this week that the reward for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-430187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}