Posted on 09/10/2021 7:11:56 AM PDT by marktwain
Wolves from a game camera in Wisconsin, courtesy Dean Weingarten
On 20 August 2021, the Montana Fish & Wildlife Commission voted to follow the intent of bill SB314, passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte, on 30 April 2021. SB314 was passed with the goal of reducing the wolf population while maintaining a minimum of 15 breeding pairs or 300 wolves in Montana. The 15 breeding pairs or 300 wolves are mandated to keep the wolf in Montana from being re-listed as an endangered species by the Federal government.
Re-listing would remove management of the wolf population from state control. The bill passed 62 to 35 in the House, 29 to 20 in the Senate, and was signed by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on 30 April 2021. From ktvq.com:
After a public comment period that drew more than 26,000 comments, the Montana Fish & Wildlife Commission at its August 20 meeting adopted several changes to the 2021/2022 wolf hunting and trapping regulations.
Changes include eliminating quotas, increasing the number of wolf trapping and hunting licenses allowed for individual hunters, extending wolf trapping seasons, and the allowance of snares for trapping wolves.
Here is a summation of the rule changes, from a transcript of the Commission adoption of Wolf Harvest rules for 2021-2022.
There is no quota for the number of wolves to be harvested. A review of the harvest by the Fish & Wildlife Commission is required when 450 wolves are reported as taken. Another review will be triggered whenever an additional 50 wolves are harvested.
Wolf trappers are allowed a total of 10 wolves for the season. Wolf hunters have to buy a license for each wolf taken,
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Countdown to eco articles being republished showing that wolves controlling elk populations is good for riverbanks.
“...organized helicopter hunts for feral hogs.”
Using copters to hunt hogs is for fun, but not very effective! Dem hogs ain’t stupid! More effectively, you need to bait and trap them. Then shoot ‘em or sell ‘em off to butchers. See the video about HogDini! He learned to climb 7-8 foot trap wire fences! They updated the trap with over-arching fencing to defeat him!
Feral pigs do enormous damage, as shown by your example. Billions of dollars a year.
Very true. A half dozen full grown hogs can root up an area the size of a football field in a night. If that happens to be your commercial corn field...
The ones around here destroyed my corn plants about 5 or 6 years ago, only had a few, 1 pkg of seeds, they left nothing but stalks maybe a foot tall. Almost ready to pick baby corn...wiped out a neighbor’s corn too, 3 or 4 times as much as I had, I only put in a few plants for some baby corn.
They also rooted up a patch of ground up the street about 50 feet square in no more than 10 minutes. They are almost never seen, except at night or just before dark, that’s when 3 showed up in my yard, rooting in my garden...made a mess of it.
Believe it or not, squirrels do a lot of damage too, they are seriously overpopulated here, they have wiped out ALL the peaches, pears, pecans and a lot of tomatoes and corn for the past 7 years. We have gotten zero peaches, pears and pecans. None. My neighbor and I shot about 75 total in one year, an area about like a football field, and we both were still watching 3 or 4 scatter every time we opened the back door. I’m still trying to thin the “herd”...
On the other hand, because of the coyotes, we have almost no rabbits left.
ok.
You know we are a rich country, with no seriously hungry people, when all those destructive critters made of meat exist in abundance.
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