From: Increase in wolf hunting permits, higher harvest level set for 2014
The DNR said it will make 3,800 hunting and trapping licenses available for the coming season, up from 3,500 last year, and will allow up to 250 wolves to be killed, up from 220 last year.
…the increase in permits also has angered wolf supporters who have been working to overturn the state’s recreational wolf hunt since it began in 2012, shortly after federal Endangered Species Act protections were removed.
“People need to know that no matter what they say, the DNR and the governor clearly don’t have the best interest of wolves in mind, to be having another season, with more wolves killed, so quickly after they were on the endangered species list,” said Maureen Hackett, a founder of Howling for Wolves. “The DNR has no idea what kind of mortality wolves are seeing for poaching and vehicles or other problems… so they really don’t know how many wolves are out there.”
Hackett said shooting or trapping individual wolves out of packs disrupts the pack social order and may end up causing more conflicts by dispersing the individual members.
“More than 60 percent of the wolves killed the first year were 2 years old or younger. They’re killing puppies,” Hackett added.
Last year, 3,434 hunters and trappers killed 237 wolves for a 6.9 percent success rate. In 2012, the state’s first ever wolf hunt, 6,127 hunters and trappers killed 413 wolves for a 6.7 percent success rate.
The first 2014 hunting season will run Nov. 8-23, the same as the northern deer hunting season. A second hunting season is set for Nov. 29 to Jan. 31, the same dates for the wolf trapping season. The seasons will close early if harvest quotas are reached.
Hunters and trappers can apply for 2014 wolf licenses, which are awarded in a lottery, starting Aug. 1.
To apply, applicants need to pay a $4 fee…
Exposing the Big Game 
In Montana last year (2013) you got 5 wolves for one $19.00 license. Since then landowners have been given permission to kill up to 100 “threatening” wolves, which really amount to open season year around for landowners and their designated “agents”. This year there is no quotas for any areas except outside Yellowstone and Glacier. Idaho intends to get their wolf numbers down to as little as 150. Who was it, Ed Bangs (?), that pulled that out of their arse for number of wolves as target, 150, 30 breeding pairs. ID, MT, WY can easily support 700 wolves. Wolves will manage their own populations relative to wolf pack elbow room and prey. General killing called “management” is asinine. The hunting, trapping season starts in Montana this month (August) and goes to February 2015. Matters for wolves seem to be getting worse each year with the traditional enemies of ranchers, sportsmen, and yokels and their folklore, lies and myths. It is wolf jihad, a hunter-rancher led war on wildlife.
The violence against our wolves and wildlife is deplorable and immoral
We just need to keep educating the world that we live in an ecosystem that sustains ALL!
Long live the Wild !
Governor Dayton is on drugs.
The mn Dnr employees are hunter trappers. Senators klobuchar and Franken are ass kissers.
The mn voters have got to get their facts and vote for legislators that are for protecting mn wildlife.
I would like to trap 250 DNR employees. And shoot gov Dayton
(in the foot with a water gun to make his feet wet)