EOB: 3000 Wolf Tags Sold By Midday
Narse Desautle of Lewiston gets the first Idaho wolf tag sold at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Office in Lewiston today. The agency is expected to begin selling permits Monday morning to hunt wolves starting as early as Sept. 1 in some regions of the state. (AP Photo/Steve Hanks, Lewiston Tribune)
Wayne Hammon, Gov. Butch Otter’s budget director, reports that he bought a wolf tag during his lunch break and got tag No. 3,080. “That was at like 12, 12:30,” he said. “So I imagine they’ll sell five or six thousand by the end of the day”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.