This Nov. 7, 2017, file photo provided by the National Park Service shows a wolf in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Idaho wildlife officials say an attack by two wolves panicked a flock of sheep and 143 died after they ran into a gully where they were crushed and suffocated. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services on Thursday, June 2, 2022, confirmed the sheep deaths in mid-May in southwestern Idaho in foothills north …
June 3, 2022
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June 3, 2022 10:35 a.m.
143 sheep killed fleeing from wolves in southwestern Idaho
Fish and Game said Idaho's wolf population is about 1,600 in the spring when pups are born and then drops to below 900 during late winter due to hunting, trapping and other wolf mortality causes