Idaho

  • Rancher still quarantining herd after brucellosis

    Ken Cole

    7 tested positive. We wrote about this story last December: Second brucellosis case found in Idaho cattle herd. It turns out that 7 cattle tested positive in the herd that was assembled over the last two years. The origins of the animals have not been reported. The remaining animals are being kept in quarantine. Idaho…

  • Idaho Fish and Game/Wildlife Services targets wolf and her 7 pups 8 months after last depredation.

    Ken Cole

    Blue Bunch Pack near McCall and New Meadows hasn’t killed livestock since October and all other members have been killed It has been nearly 8 months since any member of southwest Idaho’s Blue Bunch Pack killed any livestock yet, on March, 16, members of the Blue Bunch Pack were killed by Wildlife Services under an…

  • Hunt for wolves in Boise Foothills suspended

    Ken Cole

    Hunt for wolves in Boise Foothills suspended. Idaho Statesman

  • Gov. Otter takes on feds over wilderness filming

    Ken Cole

    This shows the hypocrisy of allowing helicopter darting of wolves in the Wilderness The USFS won’t allow Idaho Public Television to film in the Wilderness of Idaho because they claim that they are a commercial operation but the station is funded and operated by the State of Idaho. It kind of puts the helicopter darting…

  • Idaho Fish and Game Commission to weigh traps, bait in wolf hunts

    Ralph Maughan

    Of course, if wolves attack cattle because they have run across dead cattle and got a taste, they are shot by Wildlife Services. Now Idaho Fish and Game Commission is happy to let wolves become habituated to baits so they can be easily “hunted.”  Those wolves that don’t take the set baits will be much…

  • Predator poison killing central Idaho dogs

    Ken Cole

    13 pets killed in a residential area of Salmon, Idaho by compound 1080. Another version of the same article in the Post Register says that these poisonings may be linked to several wolf poisonings in the area from years past. Predator poison killing central Idaho dogs. Associated Press in the Idaho Statesman – – –…

  • Idaho Fish and Game authorizes wolf kills in Lolo Zone

    Ken Cole

    Will allow 4 outfitters to kill 5 wolves each Idaho Fish and Game authorizes wolf kills in Lolo Zone. Lewiston Tribune Online

  • March Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report released

    Ken Cole

    28 wolves killed in control since the beginning of the year The Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report has been released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. So far the report says there have been 28 wolves killed for 14 livestock animals taken. This doesn’t make sense when you consider that last month’s depredation…

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