Wolf Tags available in Idaho

[fj40mojo]

Got mine. $11.50 well spent. Even if I don't fill the tag at least I[m supporting the effort.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

Well,
It looks like the Anti's are back at it again. They've filed another lawsuit with their family pet, Judge Malloy, to get the new law the Feds passed thrown out. What the heck do these folks want other than to destroy all living creatures on the planet? Absurd!

 

[fj40mojo]

Well,
It looks like the Anti's are back at it again. They've filed another lawsuit with their family pet, Judge Malloy, to get the new law the Feds passed thrown out. What the heck do these folks want other than to destroy all living creatures on the planet? Absurd!

Just me in my tinfoil hat talking ****, but I think this is just one cog in the larger project that goes by the name of Y2Y or Yellowstone to Yukon. It's a large scale effort by the greenies to return the entire region into one contiguous ecosytem. So far they've managed to all but destroy logging and mining and the wolves are integral to their efforts to drive out ranchers. With the ranchers and other industries gone all the little towns scattered in the mountain west will either fold up or be forced to switch their economies over to support tourists visiting the "wilderness". If it were only about wolves they would have stopped once their recovery goals were met, but they haven't stopped and won't until ungulate populations are to the point that hunting is no longer viable and ranchers are driven out of business by the wolves. IMHO it's an organized attack against the western way of life by folks who envy our independance and freedom. Buy a wolf tag, do your best to fill it, do your part, if they close the season or hold it up again, SSS.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

Just me in my tinfoil hat talking ****, but I think this is just one cog in the larger project that goes by the name of Y2Y or Yellowstone to Yukon. It's a large scale effort by the greenies to return the entire region into one contiguous ecosytem. So far they've managed to all but destroy logging and mining and the wolves are integral to their efforts to drive out ranchers. With the ranchers and other industries gone all the little towns scattered in the mountain west will either fold up or be forced to switch their economies over to support tourists visiting the "wilderness". If it were only about wolves they would have stopped once their recovery goals were met, but they haven't stopped and won't until ungulate populations are to the point that hunting is no longer viable and ranchers are driven out of business by the wolves. IMHO it's an organized attack against the western way of life by folks who envy our independance and freedom. Buy a wolf tag, do your best to fill it, do your part, if they close the season or hold it up again, SSS.

I am no longer going to refer to them as "Anti's". Henceforth I think they should be addressed for exactly what they are---
"ECO-TERRORISTS!"

 

[fj40mojo]

I am no longer going to refer to them as "Anti's". Henceforth I think they should be addressed for exactly what they are---
"ECO-TERRORISTS!"

I concur, but could we shorten it up, ECO-TERRORISTS is labor intesive to type out. How 'bout ECOTERDS. Quick and to the point.

Buy a wolf tag Idahoans. Show your support for wolf management!

 

[sdkidaho]

Here is the main page on the IDF&G website: Idaho Fish and Game - Wolf Seasons - 2011-2012

Turns out I was indeed wrong about the use of electronic callers:
"To increase harvest rates in 2011, Fish and Game will allow electronic calls and increase the annual bag limit to two wolves for hunters."

2011-2012 Wolf Hunting Season:

• Standard hunting season dates statewide: Aug 30 - Mar 31, except for Aug 30 - Dec 31 in Island Park and Beaverhead wolf management zones and Aug 30 - June 30 in Lolo and Selway zones.
• Hunters may buy 2 tags per calendar year.
• Bag limit: No person may take more than one wolf per legal tag in his or her possession.
• Wolf seasons are Any-Weapon seasons.
• Electronic calls may be used statewide.
• Wolves may be taken incidentally during fall bear baiting.
• Reduced-price nonresident wolf tags ($31.75) statewide.
• Hunters must report killing a wolf within 72 hours. Hunters must present skull and hide to IDFG office within 10 days.
• The wolf season closes when the harvest limit for that zone is reached or the season closing date, whichever comes first

 

[Gone Ballistic]

sdkidaho,
I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so. I worked real hard and used a lot of blogs to get folks to send emails into the Idaho F & G Commissioners regarding the allowed used of e-calls for this hunt. I believe we, as hunters, need to have every tool available for our use to bring the horrendous loss of our elk herds back up to prior levels. I doubt, because the wolf is a reality we'll have to live with forever, we'll ever get them to the levels we enjoyed prior to their introduction. At least, they might change some of their targeted kills to other animals that will spread our losses more evenly. They are exceptional opportunists and will start killing whatever is easiest for them to survive on. It will make for much larger competition from predators that will probably cause the fish and game to reduce other predator species as well.
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The best thing we can do is to try eliminating as many coyotes as we can in the calving and fawning areas in the spring. Coyotes are responsible for the majority of our deer losses and are so easily hunted in the spring when deer are carrying their fawns. This is by far the easiest time to wack them as well. Lots of young and dumb ones out there. Wish wolves would be that stupid.

 

[sdkidaho]

So what type of e-caller do you have and what are you going to try out on the wolves? I don't have that sort of gear yet, but I'm not opposed to buying it if it will improve my chances on a wolf.

I also wonder about some of the scent marking stuff. Putting some scent drips in locations with wolf urine.

 

[HARPERC]

I have the Foxpro. Originally I got it to play with on a BC trip 5 or 6 years ago. I took a tumble in full pack, and spent the rest of the trip fishing, and haven't field tested on wolves yet. I'll start with canine sounds. locator, howler, pups and such. I have a hound man friend that's been recording hound sounds he's going to try.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

II also use a FoxPro Fury. I can download up to 400 different sounds. I have one I used in the NW Territories years ago that I originally had on a cassette that a friend digitalized for me and I downloaded it. I taped my lab with a litter of pups and have called in wolves, coyotes, cougers, javilina and bobcats with it. It works when nothing else will. There are lots of calls available you can download. If you go to U Tube, you can even see make-it-yourself videos on making a ecall for little of nothing using a cheap MP-3 player that you can download calls off the internet. Good commercial ecalls are very expensive. I made my own for years before finally springing for this one I have. Look on places like ebay. You can find some good ones reasonably priced that guys thought theat they were hunters and didn't learn that calling is just one part of shooting predators consistantly and gave it up.

 

[HARPERC]

I've seen them for sale on this site fairly often. Good article on coyote problems on Grandview Outdoors. If you think the anti's can be moved by any adverse event, coyotes are taking pets off leashes and knocking down old ladies in the process, and PETA still doesn't care about humans.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

PETA will never care about people or animals. They are a big scheme to enhance the pockets of three people that are the head of their organization. They will never report how much of their income goes for administration because over 80% loads their personal pockets, as I understand from the articles I've read.

 

[WyoElk2Hunt]

I thought PETA stood for People Eating Tasty Animals!! Have I been wrong.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

That's just what it means from those of us on this side of the fence. The problem is we don't rob people of their money under false pretenses like they do.