Nov 29 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . Hunters across Montana had killed less than half the quota of wolves set by state biologists as of Sunday, the end of rifle season for deer and elk. The state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks had recorded that hunters had shot 99 wolves by Sunday across 14 management [...]
Nov 26 2011
Montana’s big game season will end as scheduled, but the wolf hunt will continue. So far, hunters have taken only 96 of the allowed 220 wolves. Here’s the lead-in from an AP article discussing this . . . Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say Montana’s 2011 general big game hunting season will end Sunday evening, [...]
Nov 22 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . Heading into the final week of the big game hunting season, the deer and elk harvest picked up but still lags behind last year’s numbers while the wolf harvest is approaching quotas for a few Northwest Montana hunting districts. Northwest Montana has six wolf hunting districts with [...]
Nov 22 2011
George Ostrom of the Hungry Horse News just finished up a fascinating history of wolves in America. Recommended reading. Here’s the lead-in for part 1 . . . When wolves first made a comeback into Glacier National Park from a pack coming down from Canada, I did a lot of research on their past history [...]
Nov 01 2011
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks released end-of-month totals for hunting season so far. The Daily Inter Lake has the story, including the wolf numbers . . . So far this hunting season, hunters have taken 44 wolves in Montana. The overall statewide quota is 220 wolves spread across 16 hunting districts. In Northwest Montana’s six [...]
Oct 18 2011
Not unexpectedly, the request by a number of environmental groups for an emergency injunction against this year’s wolf hunt was denied . . . A federal appeals court has turned down an emergency request by wildlife advocates seeking to stop gray wolf hunts underway in the Northern Rockies. In a ruling Tuesday, the 9th U.S. [...]
Oct 17 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . A group of wolf advocates have requested an emergency halt to wolf hunting in the Rocky Mountains, one week before the general rifle season begins in Montana. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians want to return the gray wolf to federal Endangered [...]
Aug 30 2011
Here we go. Wolf hunting season opened in Idaho. Montana is next. From today’s Missoulian . . . It’s open season for hunting wolves across much of Idaho’s backcountry. The state’s second public hunt started Tuesday in the 13 separate hunting zones across the state. Continue reading . . .
Aug 14 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana. The request filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other groups with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
Aug 05 2011
From the Missoulian . . . Strongly disagreeing with his own decision, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy on Wednesday upheld a congressional rider removing gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protection. Barring a successful appeal, the decision means wolves are delisted in Montana and Idaho, and those states may go ahead with their scheduled [...]
