Montana Wolves
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Wildlife officials start laying groundwork for wolf hunts. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette. While this might turn out to be an erronous belief, most supporters of wolf recovery believe Montana will conduct a more restrained and thoughtful wolf hunt than Idaho. Wyoming, of course, is still a bit in limbo, but all the rhetoric is…
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Although I earlier posted a lot of material about the USFWS proposed changes to the 10j rule on the “non-essential, experimental” population of wolves in Idaho, Wyoming, and much of Montana, a month ago, I’ve been asked to post again now that the due date approaches — August 6. Here is the proposed new…
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Montana and Idaho, both with federally approved wolf plans, are now gearing up for hunting wolves. Most expect Montana wolf hunt is more likely to be an real hunt rather than a hunt serving mostly as a dramatic reduction in the wolf population. However, this is not assured. Montana has about half as many wolves…
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Story by Mike Stark in the Billings Gazette. The same story in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune is “Ranchers get creative with Wolves,” but as I reported earlier the idea came from Montana FWP, Wildlife Services, and a USU graduate student who are doing this as a semi-controlled experiment. Non-traditional livestock operations will be tried…
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The Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery 2006 Interagency Annual Report is out and the mainstream media are playing the story as all about continued wolf population growth and more dead livestock than before. I haven’t had time to read much of it yet, but some of the MSM statistics seem a bit suspicious to me, so…
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Wolves have nailed some cougar-tracking hounds again. Somehow it is hard to cry for these cry-baby hunters. Where is their sense of adventure and that a hunt should be a risk to hunters too? Story in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune ———– Related. This was in Ed Bang’s report that came in this evening. It…
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Ed. Note: this article was recently rediscovered by readers although it is a year old (2007 – not 2008 as I write this) Here is an opinion from a Montana state senator, just dripping with hostility. Although he says that in Montana, elk rule, and folks there are not going to allow wolves to reduce…
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The state of Montana has moved quickly to authorize wolf hunting and grizzly hunting (the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone is expected to be delisted soon too). While most folks expect Montana to be much more moderate than Idaho, the bill sets a low tag fee for wolves (lower than Idaho’s), and apparently doesn’t…