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I would love to hear the members of this conservation group explain just exactly how one protects cattle from wolves.

Here in Idaho the best way we've found is a suppressed AR-15.

That said, there're still a lot of ranchers having to file claims for losses in cattle and especially sheep. Hopefully the wolf hunt will help out some.

Speaking of which:

Open season, baby! Til March 31 2013. 19 taken so far (season opened August 30). Last year 255 were shot, another 124 trapped. Which is funny, because most people I meet think that there's less than 100 total in the state. I guess they're stuck in 1998 or something.

I think Idaho's got the right idea for wolves in another way: fund their management by selling wolf tags to hunters, who can also manage them in a very direct way.

[Grams A]

Sounds like Idaho has their priorities straight. Made the mistake of reading some of the comments after the article. These people just drive me crazy. If they love the wolves so much they should just start an “adopt a wolf” program and take one home with them.

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I think Idaho’s got the right idea for wolves in another way: fund their management by selling wolf tags to hunters, who can also manage them in a very direct way.

They’ll have to since the animals that hunters really like to hunt will have severely falling populations.