[Vision2020] Mixed news for Wolves

[Matt Decker]

Paul,

Myself being a hunter, I find myself in a bind. I don't hunt bears, coyotes, 
wolves, or lions. I feel they are needed throughout nature along with 
everything else. However, deer and elk are very abundant(elk maybe not but 
what the hay). Anyways I don't feel that I need to go and kill for the 
"sport of it". I do it for meat (most organic food there is) and for the 
enjoyment of the hunt.

If Butch feels that wolves should be open to hunting, then I think we 
should, but in a limited way. Maybe 200 tags a year. Enough that would keep 
the population down, satisfing the farmers, environmentilists, and the 
hunters.

Matt


>From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Mixed news for Wolves
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:00:48 -0800
>
>Matt Decker wrote:
>
> > Who has said "they want the extermination of wolves"? As far as I know
> > Mr. Otter is talking about a hunting permit, and I would assume one
> > that is like the Moose tag in Idaho, once in a lifetime. Even if it is
> > not a lifetime tag Im sure that the F&G will not allow too many tags
> > to be filled. I doubt that hunting wolves can be compaired to hunting
> > coyotes. Thats my take on it at least.
> >
>
>Mr. Otter, if I remember the number correctly, wants the population to
>be reduced to 150 wolves.  Since 100 is the magic number that triggers
>their standing on the endangered species list and there are currently
>somewhere between 650 and 1200 wolves in Idaho, I read this to mean "as
>close to extermination as we can get before we bring the Feds down on
>us, with some small number left in case of errors".
>
>If wolves are impacting livestock significantly, and this can be backed
>up with studies, then perhaps we should take a less hasty road and try
>reducing them by some small amount first and see if it has an impact?
>
>Paul
>
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