Wolf-killing plan complicates balancing act | Environment | Idahostatesman.com

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Director Virgil Moore’s two goals for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game — to bring hunters and other wildlife advocates together and to increase elk numbers — have collided in the middle of the largest wilderness in the lower 48 states. His agency’s hiring of a hunter-trapper to exterminate two packs of wolves in the 2.4 million-acre Frank Church-River …

Federal and State Officials Request Assistance in Investigation of Gunshot Red Wolf

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A captive red wolf at Point Defiance Zoo in Washington.Photo: Rebecca Bartel, USFWS The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission are requesting assistance with an investigation involving the suspected illegal take of a radio-collared red wolf that was recently found dead.  The federally protected red wolf was found with an apparent gunshot wound on Tuesday, …