After a couple seasons of trying, Wildlife Services, finally captured some wolves near Red Lodge, Montana. Reports of the wolves had been coming in for over a year.

Three mangy wolves were captured and collared. There was one black adult female and two smaller gray wolves. Unfortunately for the wolves, their tails were more than half covered with mange.

Mange has been a problem off and on for a number of wolves north and east of Yellowstone Park. At least 2 wolves in the Absaroka Pack have had the mange, including the former alpha male 164M, who has now survived with it for a winter, a summer, and much of a second winter. The Beartooth Pack to the north of the Absaroka Pack, but to the SW of the Red Lodge wolves has no sign of mange.

Several wolves in the Sheep Mountain Pack had the mange, but were shot and removed from the pack last spring after minor livestock depredations.

Mange has been endemic in coyotes in the area.

The Red Lodge wolves seem to center on the Montana/Wyoming border near where famous wolf no. 10M was shot by Chad McKittrick back in 1995.

Sarcoptic mange.