Wyoming wolf hunt

[jwalk]

http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/10080-wolf-hunting-in-wyoming-next-month

Hunters will get a shot at wolf hunting this fall in Wyoming.
The federal government announced Aug. 31 that Wyoming will have management of wolves beginning Sept. 30.
Whether conservation groups oppose delisting and file for an injunction or not, hunting in Wyoming will go forward at least through October, because any plaintiff filing against delisting must wait 30 days to file a notice after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service files Sept. 30 in the Federal Register



Looks like Wyoming is finally going to get to manage wolves as we want. You can shoot them on sight like coyotes and other predators in any place in the state besides around the Yellowstone NP area. Critics say we are just trying to kill them off everywhere else in the state, but we have to keep a minimum number of wolves so we can't just wipe them all out. (We were also told the wolves would be contained in and around the Yellowstone area) :banghead: Shooting them on sight didn't wipe them all out, it was the poisoning of the litters that drastically reduced thier numbers and the bounties on their pelts. We took a lot of heat from other states telling us to just go along with the plan to only hunt them with issued tags. However, our legislators stuck to their guns, got to give them credit for that. Not trying to rile everyone up on both sides of the issue or get the thread locked. I'm just happy we can finally manage them with a reasonable approach. Wolves are here, I'm not in the kill them all camp. It's never going to happen. However, it's about time wolves are being managed.

 

[JohnM]

The anti hunting groups are already screaming their heads off again.
Gonna be some suits and injunctions filed, we just have to see what happens with that again.
All of Yellowstone, Teton, and the JDR Parkway will still have full protection.
Then a big buffer zone around that to be managed as game animals.
The rest of the state will go back to predator status for them.
Except where my place is, I'm on the Rez and we still don't know for sure what's going to happen out here.

 

[jwalk]

Back in 2007 I believe when we first labeled wolves as predators we could hunt them for about two weeks. Upwards of 20 were shot and the state got sued, injunctions followed, and we couldn't hunt them since. The article makes it sound like we will get at least thirty days to hunt them and gave us hope that the challenges in court would not hold up since the feds have heard arguments a couple times and sided with Wyoming. One can only hope it holds up, I think it's a decent plan since we don't want wolves running all over the rest of the state. I have personally seen a dead wolf on the highway right by Boysen resovour, roughly between Casper and Riverton. I don't believe citizens were told that wolves would be roaming the interior of the state, and nobody would've gone along with reintroduction had we been told that.

 

[Feanor]

There are about 270 wolves in Wyoming outside Yellowstone. There are about another 1,100 or so in Montana and Idaho where wolves were delisted earlier and still more in Washington and Oregon.

The above is from the state of Wyoming, I have no horse in the race, but it would seem to me that the idea is really pretty straightforward, shoot on site for a paltry 300 or so wolves, translates to about as close to a campaign of extermination as I can think of!

My understanding is that you folks aren't much fonder of the grizzly bear. The rocky mountain west had its ecosystem destroyed long ago, most of the existing big game species had to be re-introduced, and its pretty obvious that they don't want very many of them back!

At any rate its your state, and the issues are your own.

 

[WYcoyote]

The wilderness and National forests adjacent to Yellowstone Park where by far the bulk of Wyoming wolves exist is not part of the "shoot on sight" regulation. A quota of 52 wolves has been adopted in the management plan to be taken there.
The rest of the state is where they are given predator status, and the number of wolves is estimated at only 20-30.
This plan will unfortunately not wipe out the wolves as you suggest.
I and most other residents I know would love to wipe them out to get our elk and moose back.

http://www.hcn.org/hcn/blogs/goat/from-predator-to-prey

 

[JohnM]

As it stands now, about 10 million acres is set aside for full protection and management as game animals for the wolf.
It is also where over 90% of the wolf population is.
A huge area and a far cry from the forgotten promise that the introduced wolves would not be allowed to get beyond Yellowstone Park boundaries!

!?! The wolf lovers post pops up, goes away, pops up, goes away. ?

 

[X-Rap]

The rocky mountain west had its ecosystem destroyed long ago, most of the existing big game species had to be re-introduced, and its pretty obvious that they don't want very many of them back!

The earth is much more resilient than many would like to admit, I've been in the RM West for most of my life and it really is doing quite well. The history of the earth will show many cycles of destruction in the eons prior to man but the eco _______'s only choose to look back as far as 1492 to find eco balance.

The ESA has been one of the worst pieces of legislation to ever befall this country. That's not to say protection of species is not important but it should not be decided in federal courts by those who live across the continent from the impacted areas.

 

[JohnM]

Quote:
There are about 270 wolves in Wyoming outside Yellowstone. There are about another 1,100 or so in Montana and Idaho where wolves were delisted earlier and still more in Washington and Oregon.
The above is from the state of Wyoming, I have no horse in the race, but it would seem to me that the idea is really pretty straightforward, shoot on site for a paltry 300 or so wolves, translates to about as close to a campaign of extermination as I can think of!

My understanding is that you folks aren't much fonder of the grizzly bear. The rocky mountain west had its ecosystem destroyed long ago, most of the existing big game species had to be re-introduced, and its pretty obvious that they don't want very many of them back!

At any rate its your state, and the issues are your own.

And your states ecosystem is still as it was in some previous time?
Yes, it is our state. People from some densely populated state shouldn't be trying to tell us how we should do things.
We don't really care how you do it back home.

 

[Art Eatman]

Enough...