Noah Greenwald, endangered species director with the Center for Biological Diversity: “The wolves were only playing the role they play in nature and should never have been killed. It should not take court action to stop such cruel, unnecessary and wasteful killing, but I’m glad it has stopped.”
From Center For Biological Diversity
For Immediate Release, January 27, 2014
Contact: Tim Preso, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699
Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6403
Ken Cole, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 890-3666
Suzanne Stone, Defenders of Wildlife, (208) 424-9385
State-sponsored Wolf Killing Ends in Idaho
Faced With Looming Court Challenge, Idaho Halts Unprecedented Program
POCATELLO, Idaho— Faced with a looming deadline to defend its actions before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) announced this afternoon that it is halting its wolf extermination program in the Middle Fork region of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness as of today.
The announcement represents a stay of execution for the remaining wolves that constitute the Golden Creek and Monumental Creek wolf packs, which inhabit the Middle Fork region. To date, nine wolves from the two packs have been killed by IDFG’s hired hunter-trapper, who entered the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Thankyoi! Now, to turn wildlife tourism into a more lucrative field than hunting!!!.. at least part of the year!
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