Priorities. The state wolf trappers must have wanted the weekend off to hunt grouse… They can trap wolves anytime, but this weekend is opening day of grouse hunting!
August 29, 2014 at 12:03 PM
State suspends wolf hunt this weekend
SPOKANE — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) will suspend its hunt for three more members of the Huckleberry wolf pack until after the Labor Day weekend.
Hunters contracted by the state for the past week have been trying to kill a total of four members of the pack in order to protect a herd of 1,800 sheep the wolves have been preying upon. One wolf was shot and killed by a hunter in a helicopter on Aug. 22.
The state says at least 24 sheep have been killed in eight confirmed wolf attacks on the herd in southern Stevens County since Aug. 14.
Officials for DFW say they have suspended efforts to hunt or trap the wolves in order to avoid conflicts with Labor Day recreationists and grouse hunters.
Exposing the Big Game 
You know I’ll throw it out there, 24 kills sounds high for wolves, dogs or coyotes maybe? Anyway, is the rancher reimbursed for sheep kills (on leased public land). Confirmed by a agency good old boys? Why does not a conservation agency reimburse the encroacher?
If I wanted a perfectly ignorant opinion on wolves management or wolf ecology or wolf behavior and social order or just about anything wolf, I would ask a hunter or outfitter? I have listened to them talk, mind numbing folklore, myth, lies.
Washington Department of Fish and Wild Lies… not one thing they have told us has been completely honest.