Slightly greater detail than weekly reports
The Idaho Fish and Game and the Nez Perce Tribe has released the Idaho 2008 Wolf Conservation and Management Progress Report. This report contains more information than has been given in the IDFG weekly updates.
You can download the entire report here:
Idaho 2008 Wolf Conservation and Management Progress Report
Or you can view the report in sections here:
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/wildlife/wolves/manage/08report/
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I love it when you post these links. They always make me want to go out and see wolves in an area outside of the YNP. Ralph, do you know anything else about the Henry’s Lake pack besides what’s listed? Given the enormous amount of summer homes up there, I could forsee some altercations happening…
“Henrys Lake Reports during 2008 indicated the likely presence of a new pack of 7 wolves in the Henrys Lake area. While tracks of these wolves have been verified by agency personnel, reproductive status has not. There was one herding/guard dog confirmed killed in November. Additional field effort will be required to determine whether this is a confirmed Idaho resident pack.”
Unfortunately IDFG’s weekly wolf reports have been pretty sparse in information and this report is the first I’ve heard of this pack.
One very interesting item to me was the news that there still may be a Buffalo Ridge Pack near Clayton.
Also, B93M, the former alpha male of the Buffalo Ridge Pack and a wolf that I came to know pretty well over the course of a few years, is still alive and may have his own pack.