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Where I hunt, the growing presence of wolves has changed the behavior and habits of elk. Where elk populations do appear on the decline there are plenty of factors to consider in addition to wolves: Changes in habitat the previous existence of artificially high elk populations at levels beyond the viable carrying capacity of the land lack of mature bulls and low bull-to-cow ratios in herds (often resulting from early season hunting and too much hunting pressure on bull elk) which influences the timing of the rut and breeding behavior, the timing of spring calving, and often results in increased vulnerability of elk calves to predation influence of other predators including mountain lions, black bears and grizzlies unanticipated impacts of various hunting regulations and hunting pressure, and changes in behavior and habitat use by elk in the presence of wolves. In Idaho, the fish and game department is expanding elk hunting to reduce elk populations while simultaneously killing wolves under the guise of protecting and boosting elk numbers. That good, sound science shows that the return of wolves to much of the western United States has resulted in significant overall, long-term benefits to wildlife and the habitat that sustains them - including the species we love to hunt.Įlk populations are increasing in most of the West. One of the cornerstones of our "North American Model of Wildlife Conservation" - which hunters and hunting-based organizations love to tout and claim to support - is that wildlife, all wildlife, be managed based on good, sound science. Game is doing this and more in an ongoing effort to appease many ranchers and hunters to protect livestock and maintain artificially high and unhealthy More recently the department conducted secretive aerial shootings of wolves from helicopters with no public knowledge or input and spent $30,000 to kill 23 wolves.
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The state legislature and governor declared wolves a "disaster emergency" and have allocated $2 million to killing wolves. Idaho hunters have organized wolf-killing competitions and killer co-ops to pay trappers to kill wolves. Wilderness, one of the largest wilderness areas in the United States. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold, 1949Ģ014: Idaho Fish and Game recently hired a bounty hunter to tryĪnd eliminate two packs of wolves in the Frank Church River of No Return "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. Maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.” - Aldo Leopold, 1935
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“ We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced aīear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.” - Aldo Leopold, 1949 But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that That because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean
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I was young then and full of trigger-itch I thought Something new to me in those eyes, something known only to her and to I realized then and have known ever since that there was "We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying