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Montana and Idaho
Wolf Action Alert!
Speak out about the proposed Montana and Idaho wolf hunting seasons!
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is proposing to allow hunters to kill up to 220 wolves across Montana this fall. The public comment period has passed, but you can still speak out. Click here for the Montana FWP website wolf page.
The Idaho Department of Fish & Game has laid out their framework for wolf management, and is preparing proposals for a fall wolf hunting and wolf trapping season with NO QUOTAS in much of the state. Click here to read the June 30 news release. The proposals will be adopted at the IDFG Commission meeting in Salmon July 27-28, 2011.
While the Western Wolf Coalition does not embrace wolf hunting, we recognize that the public hunting of wolves will be a regular component of wolf management. It is important to voice your support for wolves, and to remind the Departments and Commissioners to manage wolves conservatively, using the best available science.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
Contact the Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Contact the Idaho Department of Fish & Game Commissioners directly
Contact Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
Contact Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commissioners directly
WOLVES PREFER FISHING TO HUNTING
BBC News
Wolves in western Canada prefer to fish for salmon when it is in season rather than hunt deer or other wild game, researchers have found.
Scientists studied the eating habits of wolf packs in British Columbia.
Deer is the staple food of the wolves in the spring and summer but they often injure themselves hunting them.
When Pacific salmon return to the region's rivers to spawn in the autumn, the wolves prefer the taste of the more nutritious and easier-to-catch fish.
The researchers studied the droppings and hair of eight wolf groups over four years to discover what they ate.
They had expected the wolves to switch to salmon only if deer were in short supply but this was not the case.
"Selecting benign prey such as salmon makes sense from a safety point of view," wrote Dr Chris Darimont, from the University of Victoria, BC, and his colleagues in the journal BMC Ecology.
"While hunting deer, wolves commonly incur serious and often fatal injuries," the researchers said, adding that salmon fishing is much less time consuming than tracking deer in the forest.
"In addition to safety benefits, we determined that salmon also provides enhanced nutrition over deer, especially in fat and energy."This story first appeared in BBC News on September 3, 2008.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7595112.stm
EDITORIAL: THE CASE FOR LARGE PREDATORS
Published: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 4:03 PM
by The Oregonian Editorial Board
New research adds insight to the debate in Oregon over wolves and cougars
IDAHO TO OFFER LOOSER WOLF HUNT RULES
by JOHN MILLER and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press, June 30, 2011 - The Idaho Statesman
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho wildlife managers will propose a wolf hunt without quotas in much of the state, but hunters so far have purchased only a fraction of the tags needed to kill the rangy predators, compared with the first hunt in 2009.
COMMUNITY EFFORT FOUNDATION FOR OREGON WOLF COMPENSATION PLAN
by KATY NESBITT, June 28, 2011 - The Observer
ENTERPRISE — The Oregon Senate last week unanimously approved the Wolf Depredation Compensation Bill creating a compensation program that addresses wolf depredation of livestock.
SALAZAR, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE NOMINEE TO DISCUSS WOLF DELISTING IN WYOMING VISIT
by JEREMY PELZER, June 28, 2011 - Casper Star Tribune
CHEYENNE -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director nominee Daniel Ashe will visit Wyoming within the next month to reach a deal on delisting Wyoming wolves.
AFTER IDAHO GETS WOLVES DELISTED, CONGRESS TAKES AIM AT ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
by ERIKA BOLSTAD, June 26, 2011 - The Idaho Statesman
Rep. Mike Simpson's success in getting wolves delisted in Idaho and Montana has put other animals in the cross hairs, but he says lawmakers shouldn't meddle with the process.
