Idaho Wolves

  • Update on the weight of wolves shot in Idaho hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    Latest data. Average female 86 lbs. Average male 101 lbs- Earlier I reported data from the Fish and Game Comission meeting a couple weeks ago with the largest Idaho wolf at 109 pounds. One in extreme Northern Idaho was 130 pounds. The Spokesman Review has a new article on this. Actual wolf weights often skimpier…

  • Idaho House Concurrent Resolution 43 . . . reduce wolves to 150

    Ralph Maughan

    How many times did we say Idaho Fish and Game’s 500 wolves plan was meaningless in the face of the legislature? House Concurrent Resolution 43, now before the Idaho Legislature says that “existing conditions relating to wolves define an emergency condition for all rural Idahoans and, in the face of this emergency, the Legislature encourages…

  • F&G to get tough on wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    This story is one outcome of the leaked Feb. 10 memo- There was no indication Idaho Fish and Game was ever going to release their memo to the media, but thanks to JeffE, who sent it to me, it has moved out into the public beyond this forum. Story in today’s Times-News. F&G to get tough…

  • ID Fish and Game shows they are turning Idaho's wolf plan into one like Wyoming's

    Ralph Maughan

    Leaked memo shows massive effort coming to kill off Idaho wolves- The memo below from Cal Groen, Director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department confirms my call about six months ago that the Department was working with, or told to work with livestock interests to devise a method for a massive wolf reduction program.…

  • The 2009 Idaho Wildlife Services Report

    Ken Cole

    From Mark Collinge “The attached report summarizes information regarding wolf management activities conducted by the Idaho Wildlife Services (WS) program in Federal fiscal year 2009, covering the period from October1, 2008 – September 30, 2009. If you have questions regarding any of the information in this report, please contact the Idaho WS State Office.” ID…

  • More Groups Join & Motions Filed in Frank Church Wilderness/Helicopter Landing Litigation

    Brian Ertz

    “Wilderness Wolf Watchers” Act to Protect Wolves & Wilderness The Wolf Recovery Foundation and Western Watersheds Project recently filed suit to end the Idaho Department of Fish & Game’s (IDF&G) attempt to use helicopters to chase, capture, and collar wolves in the Frank Church-River-Of-No-Return Wilderness.  The suit also seeks to shut down Wildlife Service’s wolf…

  • Initial Estimates Indicate Idaho's Wolf Population DECLINED

    Ken Cole

    First Decline Since Reintroduction In Testimony to the Senate Resource and Environment Committee on January 18th Jim Unsworth, Deputy Director of the Idaho Fish and Game, said that the Idaho wolf population is about 800 animals which is down from last year’s estimate of 846. This would be the first decline seen in the wolf…

  • Middle Fork Salmon River wolf hunting zone now closed

    Ken Cole

    The Middle Fork zone had a limit of 17 wolves. That is roughly 1/3 of the population estimated to be there. So far there have been 146 wolves killed in the hunt in Idaho. http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/hunt/wolf/quota.cfm Of note is the death of wolf Y239 which was a disperser from the Greater Yellowstone wolf population and the…

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