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 [...]
Jul 25 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . The congressional rider removing gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protection faces a court challenge in Missoula on Tuesday. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians together claim Congress violated the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine when it [...]
Jul 14 2011
From an AP article posted in today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Hunters will be able to shoot as many as 220 gray wolves in Montana this fall under rules adopted Thursday by state wildlife commissioners. The hunt is scheduled to begin in early September and is expected to reduce the predator’s Montana population by [...]
May 23 2011
A good summary of the science and opinion behind the debate on wolf recovery numbers from yesterday’s Missoulian . . . One of the biggest arguments left unresolved by last year’s wolf lawsuit was the most obvious: How many wolves are enough? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the gray wolf off the endangered [...]
May 21 2011
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . A Montana wildlife official says a federal trapper has shot and killed three wolves from the Table Mountain pack near Silver Star in southwestern Montana blamed for killing a calf on a ranch earlier in May. Continue reading . . .
