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Carter Niemeyer/USFS In an effort to manage wolf populations in the state, game commissioners doubled from 10 to 20 the number of wolves Idaho hunters and trappers can take in the Panhandle, Clearwater, Upper Snake and Salmon regions.
By RALPH BARTHOLDT
Staff Writer
Beginning this year, hunters and trappers in Idaho’s Panhandle can kill twice the number of wolves they were allowed to harvest in the past.
In an effort to manage wolf populations in the state, game commissioners at a Boise meeting this week doubled from 10 to 20 the number of wolves Idaho hunters and trappers can take in the Panhandle, Clearwater, Upper Snake and Salmon regions.
Commissioners also added wolf trapping seasons in units 8 and 8A in the northwest corner of the Clearwater Region, an area that includes Moscow, and in units 11 and…
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Exposing the Big Game 
This is what you can expect everywhere with a delisting. Don’t be foolish.
Exactly.
From the best of what I can find online, here’s the killing numbers for this season, some don’t close till the end of the month. The sorriest thing ever to delist them back in 2011:
Montana: 315 (I don’t know what the quota is or if they even have one? Ranchers by law can kill 100 per year just for the presumption of threat to cattle)
WY Unlimited: 81 (38 of which were killed at/around the borders of Yellowstone and Grand Teton
ID (so far): 151
That’s 547! And that’s every year, with increased quotas every year. So you can see that in the lower 48, it might not be long before numbers are at pre-protection levels again. The laws are constantly being changed and the quotas increased yearly – the wolves are constantly under threat.
How many are pregnant females, I wonder – this is not conducive to a healthy recovery nor healthy attitudes to wildlife. There should at least be laws to keep hunters and trappers away from the National Parks out of respect for the American people, at least!
A record killing season in MT. God these states suck:
Montana estimates their state population of wolves to be 850, so their killing rate is 37%! And that’s just Montana – so I don’t think it is a good idea to delist them in the rest of the country, because it will be more of the same.