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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: cougarbart on March 09, 2015, 07:19:30 PM

Title: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: cougarbart on March 09, 2015, 07:19:30 PM: Big country news connection has a good article I just don't know how to share link!
Title: Re: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: bobcat on March 09, 2015, 07:34:04 PM: Is this it?

https://www.facebook.com/bigcountrynewsconnection/posts/856190194447917 (https://www.facebook.com/bigcountrynewsconnection/posts/856190194447917)
Title: Re: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: cougarbart on March 09, 2015, 07:38:47 PM: Yep thanks BOBCAT!
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Post by: Timberstalker on March 09, 2015, 08:49:33 PM: The elk population went from 16k in 1989 to less than 1k today. Wow. Sickening.
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on March 09, 2015, 08:50:56 PM: Only 19....if they need more ammo I'm sure a collection could be taken up.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on March 09, 2015, 08:52:03 PM: Idaho for Wildlife on Facebook, is very good for info too.
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Post by: haugenna on March 09, 2015, 09:02:16 PM: I smell a spin coming.
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Post by: mfswallace on March 09, 2015, 09:11:40 PM: How can anyone be employed after this kind of incompetence :bash:
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Post by: bearpaw on March 09, 2015, 09:35:48 PM: Sounds good, they have identified the problem and taking action. :tup:
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Post by: wolfbait on March 09, 2015, 09:42:02 PM: Quote from: mfswallace on March 09, 2015, 09:11:40 PM
How can anyone be employed after this kind of incompetence :bash:

All you have to do is blame habitat for many years and then go to work as WDFW's new director.

The overall objective is to maintain a smaller, but self-sustaining, population of wolves in the Lolo zone to allow the elk population to increase.

Idaho Fish and Game does not yet have a cost estimate for last month’s wolf control action in the Lolo elk zone. The entire cost will be paid using Wolf Depredation Control Board money funded by sportsmen and women through purchase of hunting licenses.

First the USFWS illegally introduces wolves in Idaho, then with the help of IDFG they protect them for several years, then they leap to their feet and discover the wolves are killing off the ungulates. Now they will pretend to control wolves and charge the very same people who had it right from the beginning. Wolves kill, thats all they do, they benefit nothing!
Title: Re: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: buglebrush on March 09, 2015, 09:58:54 PM: "More than 90% of the state’s wolf packs are located outside of the Lolo Zone."

And many of them are now in Washington. I had several bulls screaming in a Basin this past September, and all I could think about was if my 2 year old son will get to experience this or will it be gone. Just because your particular hunting spot isn't destroyed yet doesn't mean it isn't happening. Don't forget to kill a bear every year too. Wolves are the worst, but every predator that hits the dirt helps.
Title: Re: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: Bean Counter on March 09, 2015, 10:11:27 PM: I gotta management plan for ya...

(https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608003323329971151&pid=15.1&P=0)
Title: Re: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: stigalla on March 09, 2015, 10:31:03 PM: :yeah:

id donate some ammo to the bean counter..
Title: Re: Well Idaho is killing wolves again
Post by: huntnnw on March 09, 2015, 10:35:09 PM: didnt they take out 23 wolves recently in the lolo?