Montana lawmakers will consider about a dozen bills in the coming weeks that could shape the future of wolf management and trapping in the state.
Wolves and trapping have traditionally been contentious issues in Montana and this legislature is poised to have more debate about both than in the last few sessions.
Lawmakers have drafted bills on either side of the spectrum, with several pieces of legislation to expand wolf harvest to one that would study the non-hunting economic value of wolves.
On trapping, legislators have brought forth bills to require daily checks of traps and elimination of snares on public lands, while other bills would allow reimbursement for wolf trappers and limit trap setbacks…
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Exposing the Big Game 
This is a first for me – to see someone, anyone stand up to these feudal lords with opposing legislation of their own, that will try and thwart the continual creep of killing that anyone with a brain could have known would happen after state control! And I thank (D) Montana, Mike Philips for doing so.
Until my dying day, I will help to see buffer zones around migration corridors and the National Parks.
A first for MT, ID and WY, I should say? I know we’ve had tireless advocates in WA and OR, like Peter DiFazio. It was a good day yesterday, to read about all this!