Idaho, Montana and Wyoming have been working for years on a wolf management strategy that the Feds have been pushing them on.
Idaho and Montana have come up with plans that make the cut. Wyoming hasn't yet. It wants to make any wolf off the National Parklands a varmit, and this has been a sticking point.
When and if they get the details worked out, there will be hunting seasons on wolves in Idaho, unless they've changed the concept.
If they don't control the wolves, it will put a world of hurt on the elk and deer seasons, which will hurt the states' conservation monies, since these things are mostly funded through things relating to hunting.
Hubby makes noises time to time to move to Salmon ID, but between the winter cold, bears and wolves, I don't have as much enthusiasm for that as he does.
These Canadian wolves that were released in Yellowstone are showing up in Colorado and Utah...soon South Dakota and California ?
Many small ranchers are losing livestock that otherwise would help pay their bank loans and taxes.
I hope that Wyoming wins the right to set their own state laws to control predators. Brown bears and wolves that are leaving Yellowstone are a very real and growing problem.
Hunting ( as we both know, but some lurkers may not ) not only generates fees for habitat protection but also puts food on the table for many families.
Many urban liberals would love us to leave our homes.
GRRR.