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Trapper takes eight wolves in a monthhttp://media.spokesman.com/documents/2014/11/Trapper_takes_eight_wolves_in_a_month.pdf
The 2014-2015 trapping season for wolves opened more than a month earlier than the traditional season, Brad Corkill, an Idaho Fish and Game commissioner, said."The traditional trapping season doesn’t open until Nov. 15, but we opened it up Oct. 10. It’s a very important part of our management plan," he said, "especially in the area of the upper St. Joe drainage. We opened it early to give trappers the opportunity to get into that country before the snow gets too deep and shuts off access."The elk herd in the St. Joe River drainage, which is in Unit 9, used to have numbers close to 3,000, Mr. Corkill said."Our numbers are now showing that the herd is below 500. Restoring the herd to that area is very important," he added.Tony McDermott, who served as a Fish and Game commissioner from 2005 to 2013, is the sportsman’s representative on Governor Butch Otter’s wolf control board."We have a wolf problem," Mr. McDermott said. "And it has cost the state millions of dollars."In an article he wrote last year, Mr. McDermott spoke to David and Tina Banderob, who are the owners of Banderob’s Wild Meat Processing Plant in St. Maries.In 2005, the Banderob’s processed 205 elk, the majority for nonresident hunters. In 2013, they processed 31 elk for mostly resident hunters."Tina reported that nonresident elk hunters have quit coming to St. Maries because the elk are gone," Mr. McDermott wrote.Mr. McDermott said there are close to 1,000 wolves in Idaho if not more which is far more than what was agreed upon. In 2002, the Idaho Legislature approved a Wolf Management Plan that called for 150 wolves and 15 breeding pairs."Over the last five years, the state has lost in excess of $100 million," Mr. McDermott said. "Elk populations in the Lolo Zone have gone from 1,500 to less than 700 and there are less than 500 elk in the St. Joe drainage, down from 2,000 or more. That is due to the addition of the wolf."According to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation a wolf will kill 20 to 30 elk each year, he added.Mr. Coward estimates by removing eight wolves he’s saved close to 160 elk.
Add the St Joe to the list of wolf devastated herds!QuoteThe 2014-2015 trapping season for wolves opened more than a month earlier than the traditional season, Brad Corkill, an Idaho Fish and Game commissioner, said."The traditional trapping season doesn’t open until Nov. 15, but we opened it up Oct. 10. It’s a very important part of our management plan," he said, "especially in the area of the upper St. Joe drainage. We opened it early to give trappers the opportunity to get into that country before the snow gets too deep and shuts off access."The elk herd in the St. Joe River drainage, which is in Unit 9, used to have numbers close to 3,000, Mr. Corkill said."Our numbers are now showing that the herd is below 500. Restoring the herd to that area is very important," he added.Tony McDermott, who served as a Fish and Game commissioner from 2005 to 2013, is the sportsman’s representative on Governor Butch Otter’s wolf control board."We have a wolf problem," Mr. McDermott said. "And it has cost the state millions of dollars."In an article he wrote last year, Mr. McDermott spoke to David and Tina Banderob, who are the owners of Banderob’s Wild Meat Processing Plant in St. Maries.In 2005, the Banderob’s processed 205 elk, the majority for nonresident hunters. In 2013, they processed 31 elk for mostly resident hunters."Tina reported that nonresident elk hunters have quit coming to St. Maries because the elk are gone," Mr. McDermott wrote.Mr. McDermott said there are close to 1,000 wolves in Idaho if not more which is far more than what was agreed upon. In 2002, the Idaho Legislature approved a Wolf Management Plan that called for 150 wolves and 15 breeding pairs."Over the last five years, the state has lost in excess of $100 million," Mr. McDermott said. "Elk populations in the Lolo Zone have gone from 1,500 to less than 700 and there are less than 500 elk in the St. Joe drainage, down from 2,000 or more. That is due to the addition of the wolf."According to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation a wolf will kill 20 to 30 elk each year, he added.Mr. Coward estimates by removing eight wolves he’s saved close to 160 elk.
A biologist called me last Friday and I asked her where the most wolves are killed in the Panhandle. She said the Joe, unit 4.
Well I have been up the joe the last 10 years and good luck trying to hear a bugle now! But that's probably because of the harsh winters! Cause people blame the wolves!
IDFG is on top of wolves because the people proved the impacts, at first IDFG denied impacts, I have the old news stories to prove it.
