Montana’s 2026–27 wolf season is underway, and the early ledger is characteristically lopsided. Hunters have taken 46 wolves against a statewide quota of 300 — with Region 1 (15 of 131) and Region 2 (15 of 92) carrying more than half the harvest, Region 3 already a third of the way through a 33-wolf cap, and WMU 313 closed at its single-wolf limit.
Four regions have yet to record a wolf. The most telling number may be the one that hasn’t moved: trapping doesn’t open until Nov. 30, so every wolf on this board so far came from a hunter — and FWP reports zero non-target captures of grizzly bear, wolverine, or lynx.
With roughly four months of general season remaining and the trapline still to come, the story of this season is less about how many wolves came off the landscape than about where, and how fast, the remaining 254 get divided.
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