Wolves Removed From ESL In Two States

[alsaqr]

Wolves were removed from endangered species act protection in MT and ID as well as parts of WA, UT and OR. This is an act of congress: A rider was attached to the federal budget bill. It's about time wolves were de-listed.

That means Montana and Idaho hunters will be back in the business of controlling wolf populations this fall. A bipartisan rider in the 2011 federal budget bill ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reinstate its 2009 wolf delisting decision and immunized it from further court challenges.

"The fact is, after years of lawsuits, the delisting got stuck in unacceptable gridlock, acrimony and dispute," Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said in a conference call Wednesday morning. "It was consuming resources that could be spent recovering for other species."

http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_5dac4aee-7669-11e0-aa7b-001cc4c002e0.html

 

[buckfynn]

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has already started issuing tags for wolves.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/05/idaho-issues-wolf-hunting-tags/

Wolf tags are being sold for $11.50 for residents and $186 for nonresidents.

 

[caribou]

If I didnt have so many to choose from here, I'd Hunt Wolves there

Go get 'em!

 

[grubbylabs]

Who needs a tag?


Now that we can hunt them I would be just about inclined to poach one of them as I would any other animal, I wouldn't. But before we were allowed to control them I would have shot one on site. If those tree hugging lawyer loving freaks don't want to play fair then I will go around them but if we can legally control them then there is no reason not to do it the legal way.

As far as I can see this whole wolf thing has been nothing more than a ploy to make more money for lawyers. They were the only ones benefiting from all this business.