"The uncontrolled proliferation of imported wolves on private land has produced a clear and present danger to humans, their pets and livestock, and has altered and hindered historical uses of private and public land, dramatically inhibiting previously safe activities such as walking, picnicking, biking, berry picking, hunting and fishing," the bill says. "...it is the intent of the legislature to regulate the presence of Canadian gray wolves in Idaho in order to safeguard the public, wildlife, economy and private property against additional devastation."
The measure would let Otter enlist local law enforcement agents to reduce Idaho's wolf population.
Meanwhile, an attachment to the budget bill signed into law by President Barack Obama strips endangered species protections from wolves in five Western states including Idaho, which has already started planning anther wolf-hunting season. Federal wildlife officials said that within 60 days they will take more than 1,300 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list.
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"I do not take any credit for this passage all off the link above"
I have never been able to see a wolf in the wild and I probly never will if they dont leave the population how it is wolves live for many years with out mans interfearance and they survived and the elk herds were controled. 