Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to extend wolf hunt another month, to end of January 2012-
Montana FWP choose a quota of 220 dead wolves statewide (with the various wolf hunting units having quotas too) for the state’s second wolf hunt, which begin Sept. 9, 2011. So far 98 dead wolves have been officially [...]
Continue Reading →Quota of 18 wolves was reached over a large area of the state-
Unit 390 which is the following counties closed after 18 wolves were killed and tagged. Prairie, Custer, Powder River, Silver Bow, Golden Valley, Fergus, Cascade, Meagher, Gallatin, Park, Judith Basin, Wheatland, Sweet Grass, Dawson, Stillwater, Carbon, Petroleum, Musselshell, Big Horn, Treasure, Rosebud, [...]
Continue Reading →Law makes hash of the talk of superb state level wolf management?
In the new Montana wolf hunt those who shoot a wolf can tag it and walk away, leaving the entire wolf on the ground. Nick Gevock of the Montana Standard just blew the whistle on this amendment that was sneaked into Montana’s game [...]
Continue Reading →9th Circuit Filings – Constitutional Challenge to Wolf Delisting Rider
^Update 10/18/11 – Posted: Alliance for the Wild Rockies et al’s Emergency Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal, Motion for Summary Judgement Response Briefs (Appellees US Fish and Wildlife Service; Intervenors RMEF, NRA, & Montana/Idaho Farm Bureaus; Montana Amicus Brief)
**Update 8/24/11 – Posted: Alliance for [...]
Continue Reading →Quota of three wolves is filled-
Montana wolf hunters have killed the small quota of just 3 wolves immediately north of Yellowstone Park, so the wolf hunt there is now closed. It is subunit 313-316 of wolf management unit 390.
The quota next to the Park was set low because it is bad public relations [...]
Continue Reading →Hunting Wolves In Montana – Where Are The Data?
Jay Mallonee says Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks annual wolf report clearly shows defective math.
The story about his paper “Hunting Wolves In Montana – Where Are The Data?” came out in the Missoulian. I [...]
Continue Reading →Suzy Foss, one of far right majority on commission, says local folks fear for their children playing outside-
The Ravalli County, Montana, Commission dominated by right wingers in this sub-division riddled part of the Bitterroot Valley has been fanning hysteria to divert attention from their collusion with subdividers, their anti-conservation ethic, and their religious pushiness, [...]
Continue Reading →Unlike Idaho, Montana FWP will set a quota for the state’s wolf hunt-
Today, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Commission will set the wolf hunt quota for this fall’s hunt at 220 wolves. If met and the underlying assumptions behind the estimate are factually correct, this quota is expected to result in a decline in [...]
Continue Reading →Montana’s second hunt to be much larger than the 2009 hunt-
Montana’s wildlife commissioners have tentatively approved a wolf hunt this fall of 220 wolves, compared to their 2009 hunt of 79. There was no hunt in 210. At the end of 2010, the official wolf population estimate for Montana was 566 wolves. This quota, [...]
Continue Reading →If filled, the quota will result in estimated 25% reduction in state wolf population-
Montana’s wolf hunt is expected to be easier on the state’s wolf population than Idaho’s. With the congressional delisting of the wolf in the Northern Rockies, Montana and Idaho can pretty do what they want in terms of wolf quotas.
