Montana Wolves
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186 allowed to be taken in an attempt to reduce MT wolf population to between 411 and 488. This has been in the news for a while but we didn’t report it here because we all have been traveling. Montana wants to reduce the population of wolves to between 411 and 488. They have decided…
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There will be media stories, good comments, and ignorant angry comments, but here’s one from a person who knows- Without commenting specifically on numbers or distribution of hunting quotas, I offer just these notes for your consideration. Aldo Leopold; forester, wildlife ecologist, conservationist, father of game management in America, lived from 1887 to 1948. In…
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Montana could double or triple wolf quota. Please attend- Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks will be holding them. The meetings will be held at the following locations on June 2 from 7-9 p.m.: * Billings—FWP Headquarters; 2300 Lake Elmo Dr. * Bozeman—Holiday Inn; 5 E. Baxter Lane * Glasgow—Valley County Court House; 501 Court Square…
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Here is the latest official news on wolves from the State of Montana- There is quite a bit of news on their next hunting season, and I think it is still open for comment. Montana Wolf Weekly-2010-05-21
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Dr. Norman Bishop reports on the testimony- I think the recent controversy over one kind of tapeworm that infests wolves and other canids and which can cause a secondary infection in other animals, including people, is mostly hot air meant to scare. However, in response to the controversy the Montana Environmental Quality Council held a…
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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
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Defenders’ handover to Montana fails to initiate a single proactive project in its first year- When the wolf was delisted, Defenders of Wildlife stopped paying compensation for the loss of livestock to wolves in Montana. However, Defenders gave the state $100,000 to get the “Montana Livestock Loss Reduction and Mitigation Board” started. It was to…
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Long awaited official USFWS report on wolves is released- Here is a brief AP story on some of the report’s conclusions. Folks should note that with the larger wolf population figures of recent years and the effects of the hunting seasons, the population estimate, and the especially estimate of the number of breeding pairs of…