Idaho Wolf Depradation Control Board

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.

“[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.”

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.

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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