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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: denali on September 09, 2010, 11:27:20 AM

Title: Gov. Otter on wolf mangnt.
Post by: denali on September 09, 2010, 11:27:20 AM: My :twocents: it will take time, but all states will come around to Wyoming's position "we will manage wolves as we manage all wildlife" we don't need your help - feds, DOW, humane society, susan stone, puppy pimps, courts ,- and the list goes on

http://www.idahoreporter.com/2010/otter-sets-one-month-deadline-for-idaho%E2%80%99s-participation-in-wolf-management/ (http://www.idahoreporter.com/2010/otter-sets-one-month-deadline-for-idaho%E2%80%99s-participation-in-wolf-management/)

“We will keep working with the Interior Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the coming weeks to craft an agreement outlining the State’s role in wolf
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter met Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar with an eye on speeding up the feds’ response to a court decision ending Idaho’s management of wolves.
management, providing additional flexibility for addressing depredation, and committing enough federal funding to cover wolf management,” Otter said in a news release. “But if we don’t reach an agreement within a reasonable time – we’ve set October 7th as a deadline – the State will no longer participate as a designated agent for monitoring, providing law enforcement support or investigating wolf deaths in Idaho.”

The deadline is exactly one month after Otter’s meeting with Salazar.

Otter already sent a letter to Salazar asking the Interior Department to grant Idaho the power to manage wolves. If the governor gets his way, it could potentially lead to a sanctioned hunt of wolves, though wildlife advocates question that possibility.

Otter and Idaho Department Fish and Game (IDFG) officials disagree with the Aug. 5 federal court ruling that ended IDFG’s power to manage wolves, as well as a move by the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife (Defenders) to end a compensation program for ranchers whose animals are killed or injured by wolves.

Defenders’ officials have said that federal funds can replace the wolf compensation money.
Title: Re: Gov. Otter on wolf mangnt.
Post by: grundy53 on September 09, 2010, 11:32:55 AM: Sounds like the state of Idaho is about to say SSS
Title: Re: Gov. Otter on wolf mangnt.
Post by: Bigshooter on September 09, 2010, 11:40:54 AM: Idaho should of did this a long, long, long time ago. As soon as the Lolo herd was cut in half this should have been done.
Title: Re: Gov. Otter on wolf mangnt.
Post by: Special T on September 15, 2010, 12:56:33 PM: Some people just learn the hard way... Maybe some :bash: and a little more :bash: will get their head straight that they should be doing more :mgun2: