Wolves are the perfect animal to help reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease among elk, deer and moose, wolf advocates told the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission last Friday during the board’s meeting in Helena. “And it doesn’t cost us anything,” Cooke’s comment was later endorsed by former Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Gary Wolfe, who was once the program …
Legislators consider bills to increase the opportunity, methods to kill Montana wolves
Almost every session, a few Montana legislators target certain wildlife species with their bills. This session, wolves are back in the crosshairs. This week, the House Fish and Wildlife committee heard two of the more contentious bills aimed at killing more of Montana’s wolves. House Bill 551 would allow people to hunt wolves at night, and HB 552 would reduce …
Snowmobile bloodsport shames Wyoming, reflects Their history
Wyoming knows nothing of Ethics clearly The Wyoming Legislature recently voted down a bill intended to criminalize the practice of “coyote whackin’,” the disgusting practice of running over coyotes with snowmobiles or running them to exhaustion and then either shooting them or beating them to death against snowmobiles. Participants in this bloodsport brag about their exploits in graphic online videos, raising …
Wolf hunting could be allowed at nighttime under Montana bill
Montana has a true breed of Old West Mentality. Bob Brown R of Thompson Falls needs to be replaced. Wolves could be hunted at night and traps set along seasonally closed roads under a pair of bills brought by a northwest Montana lawmaker Thursday. Rep. Bob Brown, R-Thompson Falls, brought House Bills 551 and 552 to the House Fish, …