Hunters and Trappers Call for Fewer Wolves

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Sportsmen and lawmakers aim for a more liberal wolf-hunting season in an effort to draw down the population

An overflow crowd listens to a wolf management discussion at the Red Lion in Kalispell on Jan. 30, 2019. Greg Lindstrom | Flathead Beacon

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On the eve of debate among Montana lawmakers in Helena over the future of wolf management, a spirited exchange was unfolding in this corner of the state, which harbors a robust wolf population and is home to a recent movement by hunters and trappers to publicly call for reducing the canids’ numbers.

Wolves are a perennial source of debate, but rally cries for fewer wolves on the landscape have risen to a fever pitch in recent months as the state assumes management over a species delisted…

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7 thoughts on “Hunters and Trappers Call for Fewer Wolves

  1. What a mistake. The number they can take increases every blessed year. It was a huge mistake to ever let these thugs get control of wolves again.

  2. That video in Oregon of treating a huge number of coyotes, living things, like garbage was very disturbing. I really do hope Oregon lets the Governor know how distasteful it is for their state, with a flood of calls and letters. Dragging dead animals by one leg on the ground (cave men come to mind), throwing them off the back of pickups like bags of trash, gut shot with viscera falling out. You can only imagine the disrespect for life. I had to stop watching after a few seconds of it.

    Some of these guys have the audacity to say that it teaches children how to hunt – it teaches all right, but not a lesson anyone should learn in the modern world.

  3. You would think it would be a public health hazard as well, leaving animals to rot. Complain! It’s shocking that maybe the majority do not?

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