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Montana sportsman’s group offers $100 reward for wolf kills

Rene Anderson, 55, of Headquarters, Idaho, was bowhunting for elk on Sept. 25, 2011, when this gray wolf responded to her elk bugle and came within about 10 feet. She pulled her .44 mag handgun and killed the wolf with four shots. (Courtesy photo)
Rene Anderson, 55, of Headquarters, Idaho, was bowhunting for elk on Sept. 25, 2011, when this gray wolf responded to her elk bugle and came within about 10 feet. She pulled her .44 mag handgun and killed the wolf with four shots. (Courtesy photo)

PREDATORS -- Idaho is using trappers and helicopter gunners to try to get wolf numbers down.

In Montana, with wolf-harvest goals looking as though they could go unmet,  a hunting group is offering a legal version of a bounty as an incentive to get hunters out to fill more wolf tags.

The Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife is offering $100 and an annual membership for photographs of wolves killed in any open wolf hunting district between Dec. 19 and the Feb. 15 end of the season, or until a quota is filled.

Read the story from the Ravali Republic.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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