Outstanding. I hope that the state legislatures in these states take it upon themselves to declare open season on these varmints, and the hunters who live there wipe them out.
The legislatures won’t declare open season on wolves if this passes but they will establish hunting seasons to keep wolf numbers down.
Wyoming has be the holdup in returning wolf management to the states because they were going with a shoot on sight policy and the feds aren’t going for it.
I don’t think this is over by a long shot yet though, it has been and still is a real can of worms.
I think any wolf that has been found to transited within a mile of live stock can be hunted down and killed via helicopter.
That would be a good start.
I know many are still going to be angry with the wolves killing of other wildlife for sport. They kill without eating, just for the pure joy of killing.
I just don’t think they will let us stamp them out completely (you would need poisons to do it) and by just killing the ones near livestock we should really reduce their population. Wolves are smart enough to stay away from human live stock, you can’t train it out of them.
So please don’t flame me, I hate the wolves too, but I am trying to be realistic. Environmentalist transplants to these states are going to scream, always city folk trying to enforce their will on the country folk.