Fish & Game looking at auctioning off ‘special wolf tags’

Idaho’s Fish & Game Commission will hold a meeting, via conference call, tomorrow morning to authorize “special wolf tags” that would be auctioned off as a fundraiser for wolf management and conservation. Like special tags for bighorn sheep, the special wolf tags would be auctioned off through a nonprofit organization. “They’re actual tags - you could take one out and use it if you shoot a wolf,” said Fish & Game spokesman Niels Nokkentved. “It would entitle you to shoot one wolf.” So what’s special about the tags? They’ll be the the first ones, those numbered 1 through 10. The tags that are being sold to hunters now on an unlimited basis, for $11.50 apiece on top of the cost of a hunting license, started with No. 101.

“It’s a fundraising thing,” Nokkentved said. “The way we look at it here, it’s a chance for folks to own a piece of Idaho hunting history, being as it’s the first time we ever issued tags for wolves.”