Montana’s old wolf population model estimated 1,094 animals, but a revised model released this year produced a preliminary estimate of 725, hundreds fewer than the old model.

From SpaceDaily.com:

Between one estimate and the next, roughly 369 wolves disappeared from Montana. Not from the landscape, from the spreadsheet. What changed was the math.

In its 2025 Annual Wolf Report, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) published two different numbers for the same wolves at the same moment in time.

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