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  • Your Turn to Give the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission a Piece of You Mind

    Ken Cole

    The Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission will be taking public comment on all kinds of things on March 21, 2012 at their headquarters in Boise, Idaho. The public comment section starts their three day meeting where they will set rules for hunting and fishing in the upcoming year. One of the items on…

  • Luckless mating season is over. “Journey” OR(7) returns to Oregon from California

    Ralph Maughan

    Famous wolf’s inability to find a mate in California is not surprising- The West’s currently best known wolf, named “Journey” in a contest held by conservation groups, did not find a mate in California. Now mating season is over. The wolf, officially OR(7), has returned to SW Oregon, although his lack of a mate is…

  • Idaho Wolf Hunting and Trapping on Course to Take 400 by the End of March

    Ken Cole

    Since the beginning of the Idaho wolf hunting and trapping season I have been keeping a spreadsheet with a running tally of wolf kills. Presently the total stands at 332 dead wolves with 237 taken in the hunt and 95 taken by trapping and snaring. There are three zones that have been closed so far…

  • Montana Declines to Extend Wolf Hunt

    Ken Cole

    The Montana FWP Commission has decided not to extend the wolf hunt in the Bitterroot area. While many claim that the elk declines seen there have been due to wolves but a recent study implicates cougars and a quick look at the historic numbers shows that poor hunting management has also contributed to the declines…

  • Not enough wolves killed in Montana hunting season; extension of season likely

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to extend wolf hunt another month, to end of January 2012- Montana FWP choose a quota of 220 dead wolves statewide (with the various wolf hunting units having quotas too) for the state’s second wolf hunt, which begin Sept. 9, 2011. So far 98 dead wolves have been officially…

  • Montana’s wolf hunt north of Yellowstone Park is over

    Ralph Maughan

    Quota of three wolves is filled- Montana wolf hunters have killed the small quota of just 3 wolves immediately north of Yellowstone Park, so the wolf hunt there is now closed. It is subunit 313-316 of wolf management unit 390. The quota next to the Park was set low because it is bad public relations…

  • Idaho Fish and Game asks for public comment on wolf hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf season proposal includes an on-line survey- We have written a lot about Idaho’s proposed upcoming second wolf hunt, one that will have no statewide quota and a very long season coupled with trapping in northern Idaho. Here is the detailed information for the Idaho Fish and Game Department and an online survey you can…

  • Montana finalizes wolf hunt quota at 220, and more . . .

    Ralph Maughan

    Unlike Idaho, Montana FWP will set a quota for the state’s wolf hunt- Today, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Commission will set the wolf hunt quota for this fall’s hunt at 220 wolves. If met and the underlying assumptions behind the estimate are factually correct, this quota is expected to result in a decline in…

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