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MT going to cut loose on wolves!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="HARPERC" data-source="post: 507880" data-attributes="member: 30671"><p>Encouraging news from Idaho (F&G website May 13 2011). Helicopter hunts started in the Lolo unit-scratch 5 wolves. Interesting side note was the observation of how hard it is to kill even a collared wolf from a helicopter in the timber! Also efforts to allow guides and outfitters to kill wolves spotted during spring bear hunts, stepped up depredation kills with the possibility of depredation permits. Most of the focus is on Lolo-remember this unit historically held 20,000 elk and is down to 1700 post wolf introduction. Using the official numbers this area has probably suffered more than Yellowstone Park. The numbers aren't mine, if folks on the ground there have different numbers they won't get a disagreement from me. Thanks to anyone actively involved in changing the momentum in this issue. Stay at it, this is just a start. Idaho houndmen it looks like payback time may be here. The difference between an Idaho wolf, and a Montana wolf is just a few days. This ability to range makes area quota, and area specific hunts like this minimally effective and requires ongoing kills if we are to have elk to hunt. But you have to love the change in F&G behavior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HARPERC, post: 507880, member: 30671"] Encouraging news from Idaho (F&G website May 13 2011). Helicopter hunts started in the Lolo unit-scratch 5 wolves. Interesting side note was the observation of how hard it is to kill even a collared wolf from a helicopter in the timber! Also efforts to allow guides and outfitters to kill wolves spotted during spring bear hunts, stepped up depredation kills with the possibility of depredation permits. Most of the focus is on Lolo-remember this unit historically held 20,000 elk and is down to 1700 post wolf introduction. Using the official numbers this area has probably suffered more than Yellowstone Park. The numbers aren't mine, if folks on the ground there have different numbers they won't get a disagreement from me. Thanks to anyone actively involved in changing the momentum in this issue. Stay at it, this is just a start. Idaho houndmen it looks like payback time may be here. The difference between an Idaho wolf, and a Montana wolf is just a few days. This ability to range makes area quota, and area specific hunts like this minimally effective and requires ongoing kills if we are to have elk to hunt. But you have to love the change in F&G behavior. [/QUOTE]
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