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  • Feds kill 7 wolves near Stanley

    Ken Cole

    Here is the longer story from the Mountain Express about the killing of the Basin Butte Pack near Stanley. Livestock do not winter in the Sawtooth Valley so there was no imminent danger of livestock losses. This was a revenge killing. On public lands allotments there are no mandatory terms and conditions requiring livestock permittees…

  • Shooting Wolves in a Barrel

    Ken Cole

    About the shooting of the Basin Butte Pack. Todd Grimm from Wildlife Services and Suzanne Stone from Defenders of Wildlife were interviewed for a segment on BSU Radio. “One of the main concerns we had is that a hunter may take a collared wolf from this pack. If that happened we would no longer be…

  • Wildlife Services blasts away Basin Butte wolf pack at Stanley, Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Is there an explanation for this in the middle of the scheduled wolf hunt? Right in the middle of the wolf hunt and in the zone where there is the highest quota, Wildlife Services took to the air this week in their gunships and blasted away the long-standing Basin Butte Pack at Stanley, Idaho. This…

  • WildEarth Guardians Seeks End of Aerial Gunning, Poisoning of Wildlife on Public Lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Obama asked for executive order- This is clearly something the President could do quickly to rehabilitate his tarnished image on wildlife. Ironically, it was President Richard Nixon who in 1972 issued Executive Order 11643 banning the use of poisons to control predators on Federal land. Reagan later weakened this. In addition, there is plenty of…

  • Idaho Fish and Game prepares to close wolf hunt in 3 zones

    Ralph Maughan

    Hunters are nearing the quota in three Idaho wolf hunting zones- Sixty-nine wolves have been shot now, 151 are left in the quota, but their are  sub-quotas — quotas for each wolf zone. Palouse-Hells Canyon, McCall-Weiser, and Upper Snake have only 3 wolf tags left to fill.  Two of the three had only 5 tags…

  • Wildlife Services Montana kills twice as many wolves on Blackfoot Reservation than entire wolf hunt so far

    Ralph Maughan

    23 wolves in pack killed for some reason- So far 12 wolves have been killed in Montana’s wolf hunt. It has generated a lot of controversy because most were taken in a small area just north of Yellowstone Park. Montana’s wolf hunt quota is 75. I read in the latest Montana Wolf Weekly Report today…

  • County commits $20,000 for predator control

    Ken Cole

    Two Oregon counties commit $40,000 taxpayer dollars but ranchers want more. Ranchers ask for more subsidies in Oregon and receive taxpayer dollars to kill wildlife. Rather than adapting to a changing circumstance by doing more to proactively protect their livestock from predators they ask for the Federal Government to step in with funding while two…

  • Kill order placed on Ore. wolves killing livestock

    Ken Cole

    This would be the first “control” of wolves in Oregon. There are only two breeding packs in Oregon, one of them has been implicated in 5 incidents of livestock predation, two wolves are slated to be killed. Kill order placed on Ore. wolves killing livestock Associated Press

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