Amid hunting expansion, ban on wolf trapping upheld in Blaine

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Wolves can now be legally hunted year-round on private land in Blaine County, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission ruled last week. The commission, however, kept the valley’s 11-month public-land wolf hunting season intact and voted to uphold its local ban on wolf trapping.Photo courtesy of Carter Niemeyer

Wolf trapping has long been illegal in the Wood River Valley—and it will stay that way, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission decided in a season-setting meeting last week.

Since Jan. 28, the commission had been weighing a proposal from two sportsmen’s groups seeking to reinstate wolf trapping in Blaine County. The groups—the Idaho Trappers Association and the Foundation for Wildlife Management—also asked to expand private-land wolf hunting in the Wood River Valley from 11 months to year-round, opening up…

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