http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/aug/08/two-new-wolf-packs-confirmed-on-colville-indian-re/
Wed., Aug. 8, 2018, 4:37 p.m.
Two new wolf packs were confirmed on the Colville Indian Reservation this week.
Colville Confederated Tribes Fish and Wildlife found that the alpha male from the Strawberry Pack dispersed and started a new pack that they’re calling the Nason Pack. Another pack, the Frosty Pack, was also confirmed when biologist successfully collared an adult male, according to a Colville news release.
With the confirmation of these two packs there are now five wolf packs on the Colville Reservation.
At the end of 2017, the state had at least 122 wolves, 22 packs and 14 successful breeding pairs, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a March report. That compares with a minimum of 115 wolves, 20 packs and 10 breeding pairs reported at the end of 2016.
Unlike in the rest of the state the Colville Tribe has an annual…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I am shocked that they would hunt wolves. I thought that Indians revered wolves.
That’s a sterotype.
I know, I’ve never understood this, and why the Collville are collaborators with the ranchers. There are other tribes who do not hunt them, and usually, like with the grizzly, want to protect and respect our disappearing wildlife.
I suppose now they’ve met their state delisting quota? Or are the tribal lands not counted in the quota?
They think they’re above WA state laws, now that they themselves are ranchers. Just goes to show that not all natives are the same.
The author of this article had to misrepresent again, with the ‘environmentalists think the wolves are sacred’ bullshit, so you know where he’s coming from. Here’s some recent mortality info that shows the population hasn’t increased that much from last year, and that the ranchers can’t wait to kill them. Isn’t it about time for the Diamond M to start making a stink too?:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/wolf-03-16-2018.php
Anytime now…
I would tell the author that I think human beings are profane.
Ah yes. I had been looking for this before, Wy’s ‘thrown in the round file’ comment about a buffer zone to wolf hunting around the National Parks, by some of the tribes in that area:
https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environmental/article_0cdd4864-f1c7-5598-9aef-a723e5aa9612.html
Their not all alike and shouldn’t be painted with one brush stroke–good or bad.
To try to find a sliver lining, we can only hope that the Colville will be more conservative in ‘managing’ the wolves on their lands than those outside the tribal lands have been.
No one on the outside in the state “manages” wolves lethally.
I had read that it is by far not a unanimous decision by the Colville; five packs, I’m not sure that taking more than three is wise? I don’t like it, but perhaps it will protect the wolves in a way from outsiders of the old mindset that just want to eradicate wolves entirely. I think that wolves on tribal lands are not open to hunting quotas of the USF&W, at least it appears that way with some tribes. Thank God, is all I can say. Keep out!