Idaho Expanding Wolf Season!

lukew

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Have you guys read on this? What are your thoughts?

News on the homefront this morning is that a new pack of wolves has been recorded in Wyoming where only the occasional wolf passed through before. A central Wyoming outfitter has shared footage he took while hunting the Medicine Bow National Forest last fall. If this is a trend that continues, one of the last remaining wolf free National Forests in Wyoming will be home to Canis Lupus.
The Medicine Bow National Forest lies extremely close to Wyoming’s largest population hub and butts up against the now wolf-reintroducing state of Colorado. Wolves here are most likely an inevitability and the popular hunting units that lie within its borders are sure to suffer from the lack of game that units in the northernwestern portion of the state have been enduring for the past decade or more. This is to say nothing of the impact a burgeoning wolf population will have on livestock producers in the region.
Speaking of livestock producers and wolves; Idaho has just moved a bill from its Senate to its House that would expand the harvest of wolves across the state on private property. Senate Bill 1211 proposed to nix the 15-wolf tag limit in place and extend wolf trapping season on private property year around. The bill still has to make it through the House before it would arrive on the Governor’s desk, so there are hurdles yet in play but if passed SB 1211 has the potential to shake things up for wolves in the Gem State. That said, there is still a minimum number of wolves that Idaho must maintain or the risk losing management to the Feds.
One thing is for sure and certain, the wolf debate is increasing in both scope and intensity… the only question remaining… is there any middle ground left when it comes to wolves in the West?
For more information https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article250850629.html?fbclid=IwAR2MTtHuE32A1JXz6CEqDs8o-09xMywh9rIK8IVCFE4ed-uMGfyrtW9tkG8
 

mallardsx2

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I see the picture and I am envisioning what lead I would need for the hevishot dead coyote loads at 30 yards running full tilt on a wolf.

My estimation would be 1 Wolf length out ahead of the snout....lol
 

tim

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not a fan of the cattleman telling fish and game how to manage the states wildlife. i hope this bill fails. to me it is not about the wolf in this one. but special interest groups forcing legisaltors to manage wildlife.
 

kidoggy

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not that I don't get your drift but it is the job of "the people" to force legislators to legislate.
when they don't you get executive order mandates .

pity folks have forgotten what really made this nation great!!!
 
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87TT

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The DFG already has to get legislature approval on their proposals. How come all these wildlife wackos never say anything when CA or CO let voters decide management? No one that I saw actually thinks we will get down anywhere near the 150 mark. The bill isn't that far from what we have now. As it is we can get 15 hunting tags and 15 trapping tags a year now.
 
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