Wolves kill 15 sheep near Dillon
By the Billings Gazette News Services [here]
BOZEMAN - State wildlife officials say wolves have killed 15 domestic buck sheep and injured 14 others on private land in the East Fork of the Blacktail, south of Dillon.
Officials say the Freezeout Pack probably killed two ewes as well.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks says wolves killed six sheep on the same property in early May. Because of the history of depredations, the agency last week authorized USDA Wildlife Services to kill three of the pack’s five adult wolves.
In an unrelated incident, a pair of wolves has killed a calf on private land in the Greenhorn Mountains, south of Alder.
Officials believe the pair, called the Jack Creek Pack, injured two other calves on the same property in early May.
FWP said it will monitor the pack but take no additional action at this time.