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• Idaho Senate OKs wolf fund

  March 28, 2013 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – The Senate voted 26-8 to divert money from a Department of Fish and Game hunter-access program to wolf control, an effort backed by the state’s livestock industry. Wednesday’s … 1

• Field Reports: Montana curbs increase of wolves

  March 24, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C13 PREDATORS – Montana wildlife officials say hunting and other measures have turned the tide on the growth of gray wolf populations increasing since the 1900s. At least 625 wolves inhabited …

• Wolf hunts affect Yellowstone study

  February 10, 2013 in Outdoors, Region on Page B10 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – Yellowstone National Park has lost a record number of wolves to this year’s hunting season, and that’s left scientists scrambling to keep years of research … 1

• Landers: Tough decisions loom for wolves

  January 17, 2013 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 How Washington will handle the gray wolves that are moving into the state and expanding at a rapid rate is a work in progress. But while the methods are debatable, … 13

• Fewer wolves killed

  December 23, 2012 in Idaho on Page B10 LEWISTON – Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials say hunters have killed 116 wolves this hunting season through Dec. 15, about the halfway point of the 2012-’13 wolf hunting …

• Landers: TV show tackles contentious wolf hunting issue

  August 9, 2012 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 Washington leaped this week to a contentious milestone in the early stages of its modern wolf management era. The state Fish and Wildlife Department has killed the first gray wolf … 1

• People still believe too many myths about wolves

  August 2, 2012 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 While wolves generate passionate polarized responses from people who love or hate them, it’s pretty clear that most people don’t give a damn. Speaking before several service clubs in recent … 10

• Man guilty of illegal wolf hunting, transport

  April 5, 2012 in City on Page A5 A Twisp man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to kill a protected wolf and send its pelt to a friend in Canada in return for the friend’s help in illegally … 4

• Field reports: State Parks staff to be cut 30 percent

  December 11, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 PUBLIC LANDS – Nearly a third of Washington’s year-round state parks staffers are being notified this week they likely will be laid off as a result of lagging sales of …

• Idaho wolf trapping season opens Tuesday

  November 13, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 The first wolf trapping season since the predators were reintroduced to the Rocky Mountains will open in selected areas in the north half of Idaho on Tuesday. Demand is high …

• Wolf hunts get court hearing

  November 9, 2011 in City, Outdoors on Page A13 PASADENA, Calif. – Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped …

• Panel considers wolf plan

  November 4, 2011 in City, Outdoors on Page A5 Washington is already home to five packs of gray wolves, and state wildlife managers are planning for more. On Thursday, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission deliberated on a wolf … 6

• Montana begins wolf hunt season

  September 4, 2011 in Region on Page B7 BILLINGS – Gray wolf hunts are under way in Montana and Idaho as state officials seek to sharply reduce the predator’s numbers in hopes of curbing attacks on livestock and …

• Landers: Idaho wolf tag sales lagging, so far

  September 1, 2011 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 Idaho wolf tag purchases are barely better than home sales. Maybe it’s the economy or the recent lawsuits that threatened to stall the hunting season again, but wolf permits are … 1

• Groups ask court to halt wolf hunts

  August 14, 2011 in City, Idaho, Outdoors on Page B3 BOISE – Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana. The request … 1

• Idaho commission approves wolf hunt rules, dates

  July 28, 2011 in Idaho, Outdoors The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has approved a new set of rules guiding public hunting and trapping of wolves in the state’s forests and backcountry. 4

• Idaho wolf hunting plan: No limit

  July 8, 2011 in Idaho, Outdoors, Region Idaho is planning a fall wolf hunt with no overall limit - and no limits in four zones, the Panhandle, Lolo, Selway and Middle Fork zones - because of “documented … 16

• Despite reservations, Otter signs wolf measure

  April 20, 2011 in Idaho on Page A8 BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has signed into law a measure to allow the state to declare a disaster due to wolves and take emergency measures to combat the …

• Otter signs wolf disaster bill into law

  April 19, 2011 in Idaho Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has signed into law a measure to allow the state to declare a disaster due to wolves and take emergency measures to combat the animals. 28

• Otter, officials to discuss wolf hunt

  April 17, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B3 LEWISTON – Officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game plan to meet with Gov. Butch Otter on Monday to discuss a public wolf hunting season. “We will be … 2

• Idaho panel suspends wolf management

  December 9, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 The Idaho Fish and Game Commission on Wednesday endorsed a decision by Gov. Butch Otter to halt state management of wolves.

• Wolf talks at impasse, Schweitzer says

  December 7, 2010 in Idaho, Region on Page A5 BILLINGS – Montana’s governor said negotiations to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list have hit an impasse after Wyoming and Idaho refused to go along with an Interior …

• State, federal leaders continue wolf talks

  December 3, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A12 BILLINGS – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and governors from three Northern Rockies states resumed negotiations Thursday to remove the region’s wolves from the endangered list, but reached no conclusions. Western …

• Wolf negotiations resume, but no consensus

  December 2, 2010 in Region Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and governors from three Northern Rockies states resumed negotiations today to remove the region’s wolves from the endangered list, but reached no conclusions. 1

• Salazar, states discuss wolf management

  November 30, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 After years of legal wrangling over wolf management, the Obama administration and the governors of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming on Monday discussed crafting an end-game – including whether Congress should …

• North Idaho sheriff denies raffle targets wolves

  November 28, 2010 in City on Page B7 GRANGEVILLE, Idaho – A northern Idaho sheriff said he is not advocating the illegal shooting of federally protected wolves by offering a hunting rifle and a shovel as the prize … 3

• Chances slim for wolf bills in this Congress

  November 22, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A6 BILLINGS – Lawmakers from the Northern Rockies say pending bills aimed at getting gray wolves off the endangered species list have little chance of passage this year. A time crunch, … 1

• Feds delay decision on Idaho wolf killing

  November 8, 2010 in City on Page A6 LEWISTON – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service won’t be able to respond to Idaho’s petition to kill wolves in the upper Clearwater River Basin as soon as hoped, an … 1

• Pend Oreille wolf pack likely won’t stay as large

  October 29, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 A wolf pack with a dozen members has been spotted in northern Pend Oreille County, a state wildlife biologist confirmed. The pack, one of three confirmed in Washington state, consists …

• Gridlock on wolves alienates key allies

  October 28, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 An impasse over wolf management in the Northern Rockies is alienating hunters and ranchers, groups whose support is crucial to the canny predators’ long-term success in the region, experts say. … 28

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