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  • Idaho game commissioners frustrated over delays in wolf delisting

    Ralph Maughan

    They can’t delist wolves until Wyoming agrees to come up with an acceptable wolf management plan, and that’s not going to happen. Therefore, both Idaho and Montana are asking Interior Secretary Kempthorne to issue a special two state delisting. Because Idaho already has full day-to-day management authority already except to reduce wolves because they think…

  • Wyoming goes back to court over USFWS rejection of its wolf management plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming’s wolf conservation plan has now been rejected twice by USFWS, mostly because it in effect limits wolves in Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park, which Wyoming hopes will maintain the mininum number of wolf packs required for recovery in the state. Granted the Wyoming plan would allow wolves to wander as “trophy big game” animals…

  • Wolves may be delisted in Idaho and Montana without waiting for Wyoming

    Ralph Maughan

    Although wolves are probably biologically recovered in Idaho and Montana, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are tied together. None of the states can have the wolf delisted until all three states have federally approved wolf conservation plans. Idaho and Montana have theirs approved and are managing the wolves with minor federal oversight. Wyoming’s governor and state…

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