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September 01, 2009
Discussion Topic: On The Wolf Hunt Countdown
As I write this, Idaho’s wolf hunt should go forward today as scheduled, but how long it will last and whether Montana will begin it’s season on September 15 as planned remain unclear, as those decisions are now in the hands of a the same federal judge who canceled last year’s would-be wolf hunt.
Here the latest, from Missoula’s KECI News Channel 13:
Animal rights activists and hunters square off in Missoula's Federal Court. A packed house listened in as attorneys battle over the upcoming wolf hunt. Idaho's season is scheduled to start tomorrow and Montana's in a couple of weeks. But a federal judge's decision could derail them both. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy promised he will make a decision soon.
It's not the first time Molloy's faced the issue. Last year, he reversed plans for delisting wolves, that ended plans for a 2008 hunt.
And from the Associated Press:
Wolf hunting will begin in the Northern Rockies as a federal judge weighs a request by environmental and animal welfare groups to stop the predators from being killed. . . .
After a hearing Monday on whether the hunts should be allowed, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy gave no indication as to how he might rule
Molloy says he will make a ruling on an injunction requested by opponents of the wolf hunts as quickly as he can.
About 4,000 hunters in Idaho already have bought tags allowing them to kill a wolf.
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Comments (14)
Go get 'em Idaho hunters!!
Wow, 4000 people clamouring to make the world a better place. Go slay those dragons boys!
Filled my tag 1/2 into the season!!!! Predator called it into 25 yards!!! Nice female!!! Uploading pics!!
Hey, Congrats Idoutdoors! Well done!
congrats Idoutdoors. what caliber did you use?
Idoutdoors-- Outstanding!! I hope you include a story with the pictures. You need to send a nice victory pose with your trophy to HSUS and PETA with a big ole caption on it "thanks for the memories!!".
To anybody that plans to hunt: Idaho requires a hunter to report a kill withing 24 hours, so report your kill 23 hours and 59 minutes after you recover your animal. If a wolf is killed in the backcountry (out of cell phone range) you don't have to report it until you get back, so take your time. This way there will be more wolves shot legally before they fill the quota. For every extra wolf shot, hundreds of elk are saved from it's descendants. Doing it this way is legal and not poaching, it is just taking advantage of the system, the environmentalists have been doing it for years, turn the tables for once. At least I am planning on doing this and I assume that Montana is on the same system.
Chadwick so beautifully wrote in The Kingdom, "I do not think it possible to truly understand even one leg muscle of one elk in the absence of wolves. Not a single leap of a single deer, nor any traverse of any mountain goat across a winterbound cliff wall. The size and endurance of hoofed beasts on this continent; their speed, coordination, and quicksilver reactions, their social structure and communication abilities—wolves sang these things into their present form."
I agree that fish and wildlife agencies should manage wolves...they have a proven track record managing predators. However, some of the venom spewing from the hunting community does not help our cause. Many hunters on archery web sites are posting 'kill em all' type of comments. I think they are forgetting that the modern hunting community is rooted in great conservationists like Aldo Leopold and Teddy Roosevelt. I hear people in my native Kentucky talking about the restoration of the black bear in the same way (mindless killers)...the hunting community should embrace language that makes room for predators or we will lose important ground with the non-hunting majority.
about time. as long as other big game species are hunted, so should predator species that hunt those big game species be hunted.
I am an avid outdoorsman and hunter, but I don't see any enjoyment in shooting a dog. Go shoot your neighbor's German Shepherd...what's the difference!!
If your neighbor's German Shepherd is sport killing deer, elk, moose and your pets go ahead and make a rug out of him.
i dont mean to make this sound mean but some of you are sounding like killers instead of good sporting hunters, im for not hunting the wolf but i understand a good hunt and a good hunter, some of you are saying those things like kill em all and making a bad face for all hunters, just pointing it out.
Sounds like you aren't a hunter at all, why don't you do us all a favor and get lost. Just pointing it out.
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Filled my tag 1/2 into the season!!!! Predator called it into 25 yards!!! Nice female!!! Uploading pics!!
Go get 'em Idaho hunters!!
Hey, Congrats Idoutdoors! Well done!
To anybody that plans to hunt: Idaho requires a hunter to report a kill withing 24 hours, so report your kill 23 hours and 59 minutes after you recover your animal. If a wolf is killed in the backcountry (out of cell phone range) you don't have to report it until you get back, so take your time. This way there will be more wolves shot legally before they fill the quota. For every extra wolf shot, hundreds of elk are saved from it's descendants. Doing it this way is legal and not poaching, it is just taking advantage of the system, the environmentalists have been doing it for years, turn the tables for once. At least I am planning on doing this and I assume that Montana is on the same system.
If your neighbor's German Shepherd is sport killing deer, elk, moose and your pets go ahead and make a rug out of him.
Wow, 4000 people clamouring to make the world a better place. Go slay those dragons boys!
congrats Idoutdoors. what caliber did you use?
Idoutdoors-- Outstanding!! I hope you include a story with the pictures. You need to send a nice victory pose with your trophy to HSUS and PETA with a big ole caption on it "thanks for the memories!!".
I agree that fish and wildlife agencies should manage wolves...they have a proven track record managing predators. However, some of the venom spewing from the hunting community does not help our cause. Many hunters on archery web sites are posting 'kill em all' type of comments. I think they are forgetting that the modern hunting community is rooted in great conservationists like Aldo Leopold and Teddy Roosevelt. I hear people in my native Kentucky talking about the restoration of the black bear in the same way (mindless killers)...the hunting community should embrace language that makes room for predators or we will lose important ground with the non-hunting majority.
about time. as long as other big game species are hunted, so should predator species that hunt those big game species be hunted.
Sounds like you aren't a hunter at all, why don't you do us all a favor and get lost. Just pointing it out.
Chadwick so beautifully wrote in The Kingdom, "I do not think it possible to truly understand even one leg muscle of one elk in the absence of wolves. Not a single leap of a single deer, nor any traverse of any mountain goat across a winterbound cliff wall. The size and endurance of hoofed beasts on this continent; their speed, coordination, and quicksilver reactions, their social structure and communication abilities—wolves sang these things into their present form."
I am an avid outdoorsman and hunter, but I don't see any enjoyment in shooting a dog. Go shoot your neighbor's German Shepherd...what's the difference!!
i dont mean to make this sound mean but some of you are sounding like killers instead of good sporting hunters, im for not hunting the wolf but i understand a good hunt and a good hunter, some of you are saying those things like kill em all and making a bad face for all hunters, just pointing it out.
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