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Wolves protected from hunts
A US federal judge has restored endangered species protections for grey wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this autumn.
District judge Donald Molloy granted a preliminary injunction restoring the protections in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. He will later decide whether the injunction will be permanent.
The region has an estimated 2,000 grey wolves. They were removed from the endangered species list in March, following a decade-long restoration effort.
Environmentalists sued to overturn that decision.
“There were fall hunts scheduled that would have called for as many as 500 wolves to be killed,” said Doug Honnold of Earthjustice, who had argued the case for 12 environmental groups.
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This action does not surprise me.Wolves in Idaho have consumed 80% of the elk todate already.Waiting will just compound our problem.After 31 years in the selway area I believe it may be to late already to bring the elk back.With the forest service restriction not allowing biologist to land helicopters to collar wolves they have no idea how many we have.It is time for all the real people to stand up and be one voice and get our hunting rights back.The wolf has taken that away.It has affected ranchers,outfitters,hunters and anybody that actually steps foot in the backcountry not like the granola’s that live in the city and stay their.They want to stop hunting period and this is one way they are winning.Why are we not sueing to hunt the wolf?Time to get to work.