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  • Legal? Montana wolf hunt law is letting wolves get shot and left to rot

    Ralph Maughan

    Law makes hash of the talk of superb state level wolf management? In the new Montana wolf hunt those who shoot a wolf can tag it and walk away, leaving the entire wolf on the ground.  Nick Gevock of the Montana Standard just blew the whistle on this amendment that was sneaked into Montana’s game…

  • Some hunters like predators, dislike ATVs

    Ralph Maughan

    How many hunters are like this? Given the quality of the rabid anti-wolf folks, it might be easy to forget that many hunters (more than 50%?) take a balanced view of animals and hunting access. I think there is too much demonization of hunters per se on this blog.  Folks should be careful to separate…

  • 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…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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