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Yellowstone offers $25,000 for information on white wolf's death

May 30, 2017 / 8:08 PM EDT / CBS/AP

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. -- Yellowstone National Park is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information about the shooting death of a rare white wolf near Gardiner, Montana.

The wolf is believed to have been shot April 10 or 11. Wildlife managers euthanized the 12-year-old female wolf after hikers found it injured.

Park Superintendent Dan Wenk says due to an outpouring of donations the park established the Yellowstone Resources Rewards Fund. Up to $25,000 will pay the reward in the wolf shooting case. Any money left over will be used for future resource violation cases in the park.

Gray wolves of Yellowstone National Park

Park officials originally offered $5,000 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible, Wenk said in a statement earlier this month.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the National Park Service Investigative Branch via phone at 1-888-653-0009; via text at 202-379-4761; online at www.nps.gov/isb and click on "submit a tip;" via email at nps_isbnps.gov; via Facebook message InvestigativeServicesNPS or via Twitter SpecialAgentNPS.

In this April 6, 2016, file photo, a white wolf walks in Yellowstone National Park. NPS/Neal Herbert/Flickr