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 →Earthjustice’s lawyers chastise Schweitzer for comments on wolf management.
By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian
May be violating federal law
Today Governor Brian Schweitzer has sent a letter to the Department of Interior stating that Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks will no longer prosecute killing of wolves by landowners defending livestock in northwest Montana, they will kill entire packs upon any livestock depredation, and they will kill entire packs of […]
Continue Reading →Another temper tantrum from the reactionaries in Montana.
State Sen. Joe Balyeat, R-Bozeman is planning on reintroducing a bill which claims that the Federal government has no right to manage wolves in Montana. This contradicts numerous court rulings and would most certainly cause the state its present ability to manage wolves and further put any […]
Continue Reading →Idaho and Montana have submitted proposals to the US Fish and Wildlife Service for approval to kill up to 186 wolves in Montana and up to 80% of the estimated 76 wolves in Idaho’s Lolo hunting zones.
Here is the IDFG proposal:
IDFG proposes an adaptive strategy to reduce the wolf population in the Lolo […]
Continue Reading →Big Hole Valley will be empty of wolves after control actions finish.
The rancher who closed his land to public hunting will get his way once all of the wolves in the Big hole Valley are killed.
3 wolf packs in SW Montana to be eliminated.
By Nick Gevock, Montana Standard
Hunt will begin in four Montana Wilderness Areas and two more Idaho areas-
Although the Idaho wolf hunt has got all the attention, Montana’s hunt begins on a limited basis Sept. 15. It will be in the Bob Marshall complex of Wilderness areas and the Beartooth Wilderness immediately north of Yellowstone Park.
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Continue Reading →All 3 states and the FWS reports available.
The annual reports of all three of the recovery states have been released. There is a wealth of information in these reports about various packs.
The minimum estimate of wolves in the three states is 1645, a 9% increase over last year.
In Idaho there are 846 […]
Continue Reading →Senate Bill 183 would limit the number of wolves in Montana to 225.
Montana State Senator Joe Balyeat (R-Belgrade) has introduced Senate Bill 183 which would limit the number of wolves in Montana to just 225. Currently the estimated number of wolves in Montana is around 500 according to the recently released Continue Reading →
This is a moderately good overview of the general wolf situation and history of wolves in Montana from the 1980s.
Wolf shot; animal had killed cattle. By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian.
On the other hand, whoever wrote the headline for Jamison’s story and the first three paragraphs (they are in boldface) was generally […]
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