Slaughter of Idaho wolves to kill 25 percent in one season

By Jeremy Hance The state of Idaho has set a quota of 220 individuals for the wolf hunting season which begins on September 1st. If the quota holds, a quarter of Idaho’s estimated 880 wolves will be killed. The 220 quota is actually a reduction from an earlier proposal that called for a quota of 430 wolves, almost half the state’s population. In contrast, Montana has set its quota for the year at 75 wolves, approximately 15 percent of its population.  … “It is really astonishing that you could have an animal on the endangered species list at one point, and a bare five months later they’re being hunted,” Stephen Augustine of the Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance told the Spokane Spokesman-Review . “To my knowledge there isn’t another animal that has had this happen to them.” …

Idaho to allow 25 percent of its wolf population to be killed in one season