WEIGH IN ON THE WILDERNESS WOLF PACK ISSUE The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will vote Jan. 16 on the state elk management plan that includes the Middle Fork of the Salmon River zone and calls for hiring a hunter-trapper to eliminate two of six packs of wolves. A public hearing is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the …
Where you can weigh in and learn about wilderness this year » Idaho Statesman Blogs
There will be many public conversations this year about wilderness in Idaho beginning Wednesday before the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. The Commission will hold a public hearing at the Washington Group Plaza that gives people a chance to comment on any of the many issues it considers. But its vote the next day, Jan 16 on its draft elk …
Wolf-killing plan complicates balancing act | Environment | Idahostatesman.com
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 …
Wildlife officials discover another wolf shot to death in NC | CharlotteObserver.com
State and federal officials are asking the public’s help in finding the person responsible for fatally shooting a red wolf in northeastern North Carolina. It is the first death of a red wolf this year but follows nine such incidents last year. Young red wolves look a lot like coyotes, a nuisance predator that the state allows to be shot …