Wolf management plan draws big crowd. By Diane Urbani de la Paz. Peninsula Daily News
The material below is produced the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and follows the same format as the old report done by the USFWS (Ed Bangs). So here is the latest official Idaho wolf news. – – – – – To: Idaho Fish and Game Staff and Cooperators From: IDFG Wolf Program Coordinator, Steve…
With the end of the weekly federal wolf reports, Idaho is now putting out its own weekly report. Twenty wolves died in Idaho in the first month of delisting. Twelve were control and 2 illegal killings. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – IDAHO WOLF MANAGEMENT WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT To: Idaho Fish and Game…
Idaho Takes Over Wolf Management News Release. Idaho Fish and Game March 31, 2008 Friday, March 28, Idaho took over management of gray wolves throughout the state. Wolves north and south of Interstate 90 now will be managed as big game animals. But federal officials still play a part in wolf depredation issues. “We are…
It’s just amazing from a benefit/cost standpoint (assuming wolves have no benefits). Wolves do maybe $200,000 damage and state appropriates more than ten times that to monitor them, collar them and kill them, and of course give oh so generous reimbursement (7x) to livestock operators who are lucky enough to have a wolf kill a…
On Friday, Ed Bangs reported the following. On the 17th, ID WS confirmed that wolves from the Buffalo Ridge pack killed 2 calves and injured another on private land near Clayton. On the 18th, ID WS confirmed that the wolves killed another calf on the same ranch. There were four or five sets of wolf…
Congressmen ask Kempthorne to delay delisting wolves in the West. Billings Gazette. This won’t stop delisting. It’s a political warning (“don’t stage a big reduction slaughter) from a bipartisan group on the House Natural Resources Committee.
Suzanne Stone had a prominent “readers view” in the Idaho Statesman today. Wolf management Plan is more of an extermination plan.
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.