Wolves Prompt ‘Disaster’ Request

The Idaho County (Grangeville) commissioners Thursday declared a local disaster because of wolf predation on livestock and wildlife in the county and are asking Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter to allow wolves to be shot on sight. In a four-page declaration faxed Thursday afternoon to the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security, the commissioners said the gray wolf population explosion in the county has created “a clear and present danger to humans, their pets and their livestock/Kathy Hedberg, Lewiston Tribune.