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"Wolves and Prey"
Todd Wilkinson has written another excellent opinion piece which appears in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He compares the rhetoric coming from outfitters who complain that wolves are ruining hunting while simultaneously promoting their outfitting services by saying the hunting is better than ever.
So who are we to believe – the outfitters who insist wolves [...]
Continue Reading →I recently attended the wolf hearings held by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission in Helena.
The commission is considering initiation of a trapping season, as well as eliminating quotas on the number of wolves that may be killed. The goal is to significantly reduce the state’s wolf population which currently numbers [...]
Continue Reading →Testimony heavily against current hunt levels, but commissioners completely reject suggestions-
Boise, ID. Wednesday night (March 21) the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission met at its headquarters. In attendance were approximately 40 wolf advocates and a handful who were on the opposite side. 39 people testified. Over 30 were against continuing [...]
Continue Reading →The Idaho Department of Fish and Game issued a press release this afternoon stating that in early February, USDA Wildlife Services killed 14 wolves from helicopters in the Lolo Zone. They say that it was done in an attempt to reduce predation on the elk herd.
The press release goes on to say that [...]
Continue Reading →Beyond 4 wolves in a chase, success falls because of “free riders-”
The idea that big wolf packs menace elk more than small ones when it comes to killing them just isn’t so according to a new study of Yellowstone wolves. Researchers found that hunting success falls beyond 4 wolves not because wolves get in [...]
Continue Reading →The sage grouse population of Idaho has been in steep decline for years. It is now getting to the point where hunting has declined to a one-week season where hunters are limited to one bird a day. It seems a bit odd to me that there isn’t more outrage by the hunting community over this [...]
Continue Reading →Their ancient struggle apparently has little effect on their populations-
That’s the conclusion of Dr. Doug Smith who heads the Park’s wolf program.
I think that might well be true overall, but Yellowstone Park is a small place when it comes to major predators. With the wolf population in the Park as small as it [...]
Continue Reading →Blaming wolves for poor elk management?
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has issued an Environmental Assessment for Montana Fish Wildlife and Park’s wolf reduction proposal for the Bitterroot hunting district HD250 just southeast of Hamilton, Montana. In the proposal to kill all but 12 wolves in the district, they claim that wolves are responsible [...]
Continue Reading →Tonight, March 8 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Location
Idaho Outdoor Association
3401 Brazil Street
Boise, ID
Wolves and cougars, once driven to the edge of existence, are finding their way back — from the Yellowstone plateau to the canyons of Zion, from the farm country of northern Minnesota to the rugged [...]
Continue Reading →This is a very important case
Judge Molloy has issued a order asking the defendants and plaintiffs why the 10(j) lawsuit ”should not be dismissed as moot due to the absence of a population meeting the statutory requirements for 10(j) status.”
If the lawsuit is dismissed wolves in all of the Northern Rockies could lose their [...]
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