For the fourth time in 10 years, a court has stepped in to help protect gray wolves. In a ruling earlier this month a federal judge said wolves in the Great Lakes region must again receive federal protection under the Endangered Species Act , effectively taking management control away from the states. This ends the wolf hunt in Minnesota and Wisconsin. But state and …
Sheep producer ponders wolf impacts – Capital Press
Wolves never envisioned ranchers and Farmers living where they once roamed free either idiot! Swannack said wolves weren’t originally envisioned to be living in the private pasture grounds of Whitman and Adams counties. via Sheep producer ponders wolf impacts – Capital Press.
Lincoln County bagging fair share of wolves
Ninety-six wolves have been taken, with eight harvested by trapping, during Montana’s wolf hunting and trapping season. In region one, which encompasses Lincoln County, 30 wolves have been taken by hunting and two have been trapped. Those numbers were from John Fraley at Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks office in Kalispell. Montana wolf trapping season got underway on Dec. 15 …
Courts should revisit ruling on gray wolf
It would appear that ranchers and cattlemen are paying people in the news…… Since the gray wolf in Wisconsin was taken off the endangered species list, the state Department of Natural Resources generally has done a good job of responsibly managing the population and conducting three wolf hunt seasons. Now a federal district judge has ruled that the delisting was …