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Wolves Top Concern for Idaho’s New Elk Plan

By Wolves
More than 150 written comments called for bolstered wolf population control measures. Just 19 commentors wanted no wolf control measures. Fish and Game is hoping for final adoption of the plan in early 2014. In some areas -- such as the rugged, wilderness in the northern portions of the state -- it's a "no brainer" wolves have cut populations.
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Governor announces pheasant task force

By Outdoor Heritage
It also means the state's pheasant population probably dipped below 3 million this year after being as high as 12 million in 2007. He explained the rise of the federal government's Conservation Reserve Program from the 1985 farm bill and how the land it protected from farming helped grow pheasant numbers. Are we going to fluctuate around a mean of a million and a half pheasants?
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Second bear trapped and killed in Longwood by wildlife officials

By Issues
...bear that injured Chalfant in order to compare the blood samples of the two euthanized bears. Parker said DNA results from the two euthanized bears are expected later this week. FWC will continue to trap bears, she said, and there is no timeline for when the trapping will end. The male bear was caught in a different trap than the one that caught two females. "If we trap another bear, it also will likely be euthanized," Parker said Monday afternoon. "We are trying to be...
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