With only a few days remaining before the end of Montana’s general wolf-hunting season on March 15, a record 315 wolves have been harvested across the state, with the bulk of them taken before cold temperatures and heavy snows made hunting and trapping conditions more difficult.
As of March 10, preliminary results from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), the agency tasked with managing the elusive predators, indicate that hunters harvested 165 wolves and trappers killed 130. Train and automobile collisions were responsible for three mortalities, according to FWP.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services Division killed eight wolves after investigating reports of livestock depredation and other conflicts, while private landowners killed two. FWP lists…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Just wanted to post this here too:
The thing I am concerned about is Montana’s nearly 40% (315) of their wolf population killed this season. While some say that won’t lead to extinction of wolves – that amount and percentage will rise every year as it has been (see ID and WY), along with ever more ways to kill them (night hunting and decrease of trapping setbacks being threatened). Once these misunderstood animals are delisted in the rest of the nation – they have no other protection.
Hunting seasons will follow in the Great Lakes, Washington and Oregon, and politics will be the deciding factor in the wolves’ population – not science or the health of the species. Utah has vowed *never* to have wolves in their state, and Colorado is playing the flim-flam game.
Poor and irrational attitudes about wolves persist, even in other countries in the world.