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The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board says its new approach to culling wolves is more targeted to areas with high risk to livestock and wildlife.
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“[The wolves] didn’t consume anything,” Rancher Frank Shirts said in a press release from the IRRC. “The sheep just suffocated in the pileup and died. We work to make things good for those sheep every day, so it’s a shame to lose them.”
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The board – which pays a federal and a state agency, and now potentially private contractors, to kill wolves – said the collars are primarily to aid with responding to livestock depredations.
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The Wood River Wolf Project is a well-known project that uses non-lethal methods to prevent livestock depredations. But it's an outlier in Idaho, which has favored greatly expanding hunting and trapping opportunities to decrease depredations.
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A new Idaho law could kill 90% of the state’s wolf population. The Idaho Legislature easily passed the bill — which was signed into law by Gov. Brad Little. Idaho Matters speaks a wolf advocate to get her perspective.
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Wildlife managers are struggling to find and kill the remaining wolves in a northeast Washington pack. The Profanity Peak wolf pack has been in the…
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According to Idaho Fish and Game biologists, 786 wolves roamed the state in 2015. That compares to 770 the year before. The agency calls the dispersal of…
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The Idaho Fish and Game Department says the number of wolves in the state has reached its highest level since 2010, following a corresponding decline in…
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Idaho lawmakers have approved spending $400,000 to kill wolves.The Spokesman-Review reports that the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved the…