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Title: Idaho won't use hired wolf killer in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Post by: wolfbait on August 10, 2015, 06:27:12 AM

Idaho won't use hired wolf killer in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/75544287468f4eb299d8bc6414dc0758/ID--Idaho-Wolves-Wilderness

Title: Re: Idaho won't use hired wolf killer in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Post by: 300rum on August 10, 2015, 07:33:15 AM

Pretty significant when you add the conversation I had with a game warden two or three years ago.  I asked him where the animals winter and he said that they find south slopes and hunker down for the winter without migrating that much.  This surprised me, I would have thought that they would migrate out of the Church into the valley's but he said they didn't.  In fact, he said that the animals move very little.  He also said (and a Montana Bio confirmed during another, separate conversation) that Montana's deer heard and some elk migrate back over the state line into Idaho for the winter.

I am guessing that those animals winter in some pretty sparse ground and get landlocked into relatively small south slope "pastures".  I would also imagine that they are easy pickings for predators during that time......       

Title: Re: Idaho won't use hired wolf killer in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Post by: 2MANY on August 13, 2015, 01:43:02 PM

Fact.

Title: Re: Idaho won't use hired wolf killer in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Post by: Jonathan_S on August 13, 2015, 02:01:16 PM

Glad he at least got the nine last year  :tup:

Title: Re: Idaho won't use hired wolf killer in Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Post by: buglebrush on August 13, 2015, 02:26:06 PM

Maybe the RMEF should hire him.  I know I would contribute. 

What needs to happen is bounties of 2-3k per wolf sponsored by sportsmen.  Like what our local organization in the panhandle does.   :twocents: