Tag: Idaho Wolves
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Court Rules That Forest Service Illegally Authorized Helicopter Intrusions in Premiere Wilderness Area
Idaho Must Destroy Data Obtained From Illegal Elk and Wolf Collaring POCATELLO, Idaho – A federal judge today ruled that the U.S. Forest Service illegally authorized the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to conduct approximately 120 helicopter landings to place radio collars on elk in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness last…
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Wolf Discussion Absent from Idaho Wildlife Services EA
Idaho Wildlife Services recently made public an Environmental Assessment (“EA”) supposedly analyzing statewide predator damage and conflict management. However, wolves are notably absent from the 273-page document. Wildlife Services’ recent killing of five wolves in central Idaho—in addition to previous killings of six in response to livestock depredation and 19 to boost elk populations in…
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Idaho Wildlife Services: Your Comments Needed
News came out last week that taxpayer-funded and woefully misnamed Wildlife Services killed five wild wolves in central Idaho for alleged livestock depredation—another in a long line of such wolf-killing actions by this secretive government agency. Wildlife Services, which Congressman Peter DeFazio calls “one of the most opaque and least accountable agencies” in the federal government,…
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Idaho Suspends Wilderness Wolf-Killing Plan In Face of Court Challenge
POCATELLO, Idaho – Faced with a legal challenge by conservationists and an imminent hearing before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (“IDFG”) has abandoned its plan to resume a professional wolf-killing program in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness during the coming winter. In a sworn statement submitted to the…
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game Collaring Wolf Pups in Dens
The 2013 Idaho Wolf Report, describes wolf research being conducted in Idaho and one of the projects involves entering wolf dens and placing expandable radio collars on 2-4 week old pups. This is an expansion of a project that started last year that involved placing expandable radio collars and surgically implanting radio tags on 11…
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Idaho “Wolf Control Board” Passes the House.
Today the Idaho House held its final hearing on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” bill HB470 which establishes a board which would be composed solely of people appointed by the Governor that would oversee wolf control in Idaho. The board would be funded using $2 million in general funds, $110,000 from the livestock industry, and $110,000…
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Public Hearing on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” on Monday. Updated
The proponents’ expressed intent is for the Wolf Control Board to reduce the Idaho wolf population to 150 wolves. See update at bottom A public hearing is scheduled for Monday at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” bill HB470 which establishes a board which would composed solely of people appointed by the…
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Idaho Digs a Deeper Wolf Management Hole
Idaho’s wolf management has opened a lot of eyes in the past month. With the recent coyote and wolf killing contest that killed 21 coyotes and no wolves, the hiring of a trapper by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to eradicate two packs of wolves in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness…