I didn’t write a report on all of the wolf population management plan meetings. I didn’t get news about some of them.
These are Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker’s impressions on the Boise meeting where wolf supporters predominated.
More laughter than anger at Fish and Game wolf meeting.
It is absolutely true that the wolf issue is as the meeting moderator said, “social,” that is, in my view a culture clash, having little to do with wolves, which are but a symbol for reaction to change in the West.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
