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Thousands Buy Wolf Licenses

Folks lined up to get their wolf tags at Idaho Fish & Game on Monday August 24, 2009. This is the first public wolf hunt in Idaho in decades. KATHY PLONKA kathypl@spokesman.com (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Folks lined up to get their wolf tags at Idaho Fish & Game on Monday August 24, 2009. This is the first public wolf hunt in Idaho in decades. KATHY PLONKA kathypl@spokesman.com (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Folks lined up to get their wolf tags at Idaho Fish & Game this morning. This is the first public wolf hunt in Idaho in decades. (Kathy Plonka/SR)

The first hunter to buy a wolf tag at Idaho’s Fish & Game headquarters in Boise this morning, J.D. Dennis of Kuna, arrived 55 minutes before the sale started. “Fortunately, I was in the neighborhood,” said Dennis, who stood at the head of a line of about two dozen hunters waiting for the state’s first-ever sale of wolf tags to begin. Tags also are being sold online and at Fish & Game offices and private vendors statewide, wherever Idaho big game tags are sold. By noon, the state had sold about 2,500 wolf tags, officials said/Betsy Russell, SR. More here.

Question: Hunters will be able to kill up to 220 wolves in Idaho during the first season. Do you think that many wolves will be killed?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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