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Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« on: April 04, 2013, 08:54:52 AM »
"Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012"


LEWISTON, Idaho – The latest population tally shows an 11 percent decline in the number of wolves roaming Idaho.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game reports 683 wolves in 117 packs at the end of 2012. That total is down from 746 wolves in 104 packs in 2011.

“It’s encouraging to see the trend going down, and we are certainly committed to managing wolves to reduce impacts with livestock and big game, and that means we will continue to focus on increasing harvest, particularly in problem areas,” said Jon Rachael, big game manager for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game at Boise.

State wildlife officials attribute the downsizing to continued pressure through hunting, trapping and agency control methods. Humans killed 418 of the 425 wolves known to have died in the state last year.

Officials say wolves killed 73 cattle, 312 sheep and two dogs in 2012.

For now, it’s the official policy of the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to reduce the state’s wolf population. Last year, the commission increased bag limits, extended hunting seasons in some areas and allowed hunters to use electronic calls.

“Despite concerns expressed by some people that hunting and trapping would eliminate wolf packs, we haven’t found that to be the case,” said Rachael. “We documented more packs in the state than ever before in our normal monitoring through ground and aerial observations during the year, combined with remote cameras, hunter observations, public reports and (hunter-trapper) harvest information.”

He said that while the number of wolf packs in the state has increased, the average size of wolf packs has decreased.

“That is exactly what we would expect to see with wolves being harvested by hunters and trappers,” he said.

Idaho’s wolf conservation and management plan approved by state lawmakers in 2002, and approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2009 when wolves were removed from the endangered species list, is 150 wolves statewide.

Since the end of 2012, officials report that an additional 156 wolves have been killed by hunters and trappers. But officials said that number is expected to climb with pups born this month and in May.

“Simply removing them one time doesn’t mean they are gone,” Rachael said. “They will backfill suitable habitat fairly quickly. That is why you can have a pretty high harvest rate with wolves and you don’t see the population plummeting as some folks were predicting early on.”

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Re: Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2013, 08:58:34 AM »
It's taken a long time and relaxation of most of the protections to get to this point. Hopefully, our DFW will recognize the crap hole they've dug for our state and will do something to calm the storm brewing on the horizon. It's a hope, but the wolf lovers are still on the commission, so it's a distant one.
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Re: Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2013, 09:10:54 AM »
It did not seem like they were on the decline in the selway unit this year. we seen a pack of 9 and watched them for about an hour. They eventually started howling and the whole valley erupted in howls. there had to be 3-4 different groups howling from different places. It seemed like at least 30 wolves going off at the same time. very Erie feeling the way they all started in like that. We had tags but could not close in enough to get a shot.

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Re: Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2013, 10:09:33 AM »
  There not on the decline. Just finished the Wolf trappers education course last weekend in Lewiston. Great class very informative. The instructors were Jeff Ashmead a retired government trapper of 34 years, and Lonie Austin an old trapper from Idaho. Jeff all so offers a two and half day out in the woods seminar for training in wolf trapping. Go to www.wolfsnaring .com. Lone male wolves aren't counted and there were others mentioned that aren't counted each year either, can't remember all of what he said on that. Except that after the none packs that they have are done whelping or having pups there should be additional 400 to 500 wolves. That why Idaho Fish and Game welcome all the trappers and hunters they can get that is ETHICAL huntersand trappers. Not some idiot that going to take a picture of a wolf in his trap live and send it to his buuby on FB, or tie it to the hood of his truck. They spent about an hour on trapping ethics, because everybodies watching. Can't wait to start trapping where you can use what I call real traps.

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Re: Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2013, 10:41:51 AM »
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The Idaho Department of Fish and Game reports 683 wolves in 117 packs at the end of 2012. That total is down from 746 wolves in 104 packs in 2011.

Officials say wolves killed 73 cattle, 312 sheep and two dogs in 2012.

So, per year.....for every 10 wolves you get a dead cow and 2.5 dead sheep THAT THEY CONFIRMED.

I don't know the value of a sheep, but it seems that you could calculate the damage per wolf to personal property pretty quickly.  I also think that in Washington, the chances of this type of personal property damages would only be about 4X what it would be in Idaho due to our limited vast wilderness areas. :twocents:
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Re: Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2013, 11:02:13 AM »
The question is... how many elk do they kill in idaho a year. Their numbers have to be off. We saw wolves during elk season in Sun Valley Idaho each day, and we were about 18 miles in back country. PLus wolves in deer season in an area 2 hours away from Sun valley

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Re: Idaho wolf tally shows 11 percent decline in 2012
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2013, 02:47:07 PM »
Looks to me like the hunters were 683 wolves short of a successful season  :chuckle: 

 


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