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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
LIE DOWN WITH WOLVES: PARTS ONE & TWO
by ADAM COTTRELL, Boise State Radio
In the west few issues carry as much emotional baggage as wolves. Idaho has far more bears and mountain lions than wolves, but it's wolves that can start fistfights and bring protestors out in packs on all sides of debate. However you look at them, the fact is wolves are now off the endangered species list. Today the top dogs at Idaho Fish and Game are meeting to set hunting quotas for the formerly endangered predator. But there are people who think the wolf and the lamb can lie down together in peace, or at least share the same eco system. Boise State Radio's Adam Cotterell takes to the mountains to report on an experimental program to keep wolves away from sheep using non-lethal methods.
Click Here to Listen to Part Two of This Story
Idaho's hunting season may reduce the number of wolves in the state by as much as twenty five percent, but removal from the endangered species list and a hunting season does not change the relationship between ranchers and wolves. Ranchers still can't shoot a wolf unless they catch it in the act of attacking their animals. That means there will still be many places in Idaho where livestock and wolves live in close proximity. Yesterday on Morning Edition Boise State Radio's Adam Cotterell brought you a report on a project that experiments with methods to keep wolves away from sheep using non-lethal means. Today in part two of that report Adam talks to the people who judge the success of the project, the ranchers.
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.
