Hopefully it will turn into a larger fine!! Like 1000 or more… perhaps take away his hunting rights for knowingly shooting a wolf!
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A northern Idaho man says he will take his chances with a jury rather than pay a $200 fine for shooting a wolf without a hunting tag.
“It’s going to be really hard to find a jury in North Idaho that finds me guilty for shooting a wolf to save my stinking dogs,” Forrest Mize told The Coeur d’Alene Press in a story Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1EqKR0z).
Mize, 53, faces a misdemeanor charge of possessing a wolf without a tag, not for the shooting of the wolf.
Mize said he was hiking with his pets last month when they came upon the wolf. Mize said he feared the animal was about to attack, so he shot it with the gun he was carrying for protection.