The Forest Service has started to treat weeds in the Selway Zone. Hunters and trappers have killed 70 wolves this season in the Panhandle Region and 36 in the Dworshak-Elk City Zone. White said the prescriptions in the elk plan are designed to help the Forest Service justify projects that will help elk.
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Jan. 30--Does Anaconda-Deer Lodge County need a large predator policy? These resolutions have been adopted in Madison, Powell, Ravalli and Granite counties. As a community we want to be involved in these discussions about predators, large game species and livestock.
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Today, the state's wolf population is estimated to be around 680 animals, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Last year, Otter vetoed a bill that would have diverted money from Fish and Game to a wolf management fund.
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Department of Fish and Wildlife Monday said it was halting the hunt after nine wolves were killed since December, with none in the past two weeks. It had planned to keep hunter Gus Thoreson of Salmon in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness this winter as it sought reduce wolves and bolster low elk populations there. Wolf advocates initially lost their bid for a court order to force Thoreson to quit hunting wolves from his base on U.S. Forest Service territory.
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Today, the state's wolf population is estimated to be around 680 animals, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Last year, Otter vetoed a bill that would have diverted money from Fish and Game to a wolf management fund.
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Killing wolves in an area where few, if any, sport hunters were willing to go was a strategy to help elk recovery in the backcountry. The timing also coincided with a so-called "wolf derby" in Salmon in December.
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Those who join and successfully trap a wolf are eligible to be reimbursed up to $500 for the expenses they incur. About 30 people attended the meeting Thursday at the Clearwater Regional Office of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. But they quickly realized trapping was time-consuming and expensive.
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Hunter elk harvests have dropped in recent years, but wolf predation remains high. Hunting wolves is a method that Akenson and other conservationists can accept. He is Otter's main legislative supporter for the Wolf Control Board, which he said needs to focus on reducing the wolf population that has cost sheep businesses such as his. With a total population of about 700 wolves, that's $2,800 for every wolf in Idaho, living or dead. Rep.
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...killing any wolves. "A wilderness is supposed to be a wild place governed by natural conditions, not an elk farm," said Preso. Maughan says the lawsuit is not about wolves; it's about protecting the wilderness values enshrined in the Wilderness Act. Maughan has written several guide books about the area with his wife, Jackie Johnson Maughan, and has long ties to that part of the state. Jackie Maughan's father, Bill "Blue Moose" Johnson, was an outfitter in the area and...
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I am pleased he made the implementation of our Task Force recommendations a priority and demonstrated his continued support for the Idaho Core Standards. Otter praised in his speech and predicted will become a driving force behind developing Idaho's economy. Restoring operational money was a top priority for schools and one of 20 recommendations from Otter's Task Force for Improving Education.
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