The Missoulian has a good year-end review of Montana’s first wolf hunt.
Here are a few tidbits culled from the article…
The wolf hunt accounted for just over a third of the wolves killed during the past year. Poaching, “control actions” and other events accounted for the rest.
Eleven wolves were taken in Flathead County, the highest single-county total. This includes the two killed legally in the “North Fork Sub-unit.” Overall, three-quarters of the harvest came from seven counties.
Montana FWP must have kept fairly detailed statistics. For instance, the article states that, although most of the wolves killed were healthy, two had a slight case of mange, one had fleas, another had porcupine quills in its shoulder and two reportedly had hernias. (Huh? Hernias?)