Montana is debating whether to add non-hunter money into a system long totally controlled by funding on killing licenses. The wolf stamp debate centers on whether a state agency funded by license sales should tap into nonhunters for funding for management of one of its most controversial species. The opportunity to allow Montana residents to invest in NONLETHAL forms of wolf management? Really? Read on by clicking here.
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August 19 post on The Wildlife News
Wolf stamp hearing: Great interest and internal division
by Ralph Maughan
Hunters split. So were wolf advocates-
The wolf stamp hearing is over. It was teleconferenced. It seems like those for it were about equal to the number of opponents. Just as interesting is the hunters were divided on it, and so were wolf advocates. The split among the latter has been mirrored at the Wildlife News…
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Exposing the Big Game 
The crux of the problem of wildlife management is hunting and fishing license fees, the way state wildlife management agencies are funded. To that extent this is a great debate. Hunters and fishermen and state wildlife agencies are not conservationists except for game species. They are in effect anti balanced ecology otherwise.