Sponsors Want Annual Wolf Derby

The sponsors of a controversial wolf-hunting competition in Idaho last year are proposing an annual contest on federal lands that rewards participants for bagging as many animals as they can in three days, organizers said Thursday. The group, named Idaho for Wildlife, is seeking a special recreation permit from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to hold contests each January for five years that would see as many as 500 hunters targeting wolves, coyotes, jackrabbits, starlings, skunks, weasels and raccoons. The form of competitive hunting known as a predator derby has grown in popularity in recent years among sportsmen in Western states, alongside opposition from conservationists who denounce the hunts as organized killing contests. Steve Alder is executive director of Idaho for Wildlife, which says it fights “all radical anti-hunting and anti-gun environmentalists”/ Reuters . More here . (AP file photo)

Question: Do you support/oppose a proposal for an annual predator derby on federal lands in Idaho?