I am looking ahead to what’s on the radar screen in 2008, and it should be interesting.
We could be hunting wolves in Idaho this year. I am optimistic. I’ve talked to lots of folks about it, and they think it’s a real possibility. It would be a strangely fitting end to the wolf reintroduction circus. It will have taken slightly over a decade to go from a few wolves to a viable, self-sustaining, hunted wolf population in Idaho.
Hunting would prove to skeptics that wolves will be treated like any other wildlife and not as the scared cow of the predator world. I can’t see myself hunting them, but I certainly think people who want to should have that option. Of course, some people will howl over wolf hunting, but that was always part of the reintroduction plan. It’s time to hold up that end of the agreement.
Salmon
Early signs are showing a booming salmon run returning to Idaho in the spring and summer. If it happens, it will be welcome. Salmon seasons gets people jacked up about fishing.
There are lots of arguments about how salmon recovery is going, but arguing whether a good salmon run in 2008 is an anomaly or a trend in the right direction is a whole lot better than a bad run and, well . . . arguing whether it’s an anomaly or a trend in the wrong direction.
I am sure there will be a lot more interesting things happening in 2008, and that’s part of the fun, waiting for the unexpected.
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So what was it about...
4 fish returning in that other guy's blog and breaching dams and...
this is why the en-whateveralists need to hush and let the sportsmen and those who know handle things.
Helen Chenowith was a wonderful person and doesn't deserve all the posthumous nonsense.
Wolves
I'm getting the feeling the only reason this state reintroduced the wolf here is so they could eventually hunt them. They did not give a care to the farmers animals or the people that do love to go watch and see the wolves.
They just cared about being able to hunt them. I'm feeling their was and is a hidden agenda when all this started. Other statements have concluded that the deer and elk population is doing good. The amount of wolves we have now is fine. I do believe that around the farmers they need to be controlled, but that is the only place. I also agree that we should not let any more then the 673 or 800 that is left get any or to much higher. But to bring them back down to 150 that is wrong, they will be put back on the endangered species act with in a year to 2. The biggest thing is they are again fooling everyone that thinks their will be a hunt this year. It takes steps to get them off the endangered list, and to be put on another list. If it happens this year well then we will all know it was done to fast with out any regard to the endangered species act. I try to find the facts for and on both sides here.
The STATE didn't reintroduce anything.
I THINK. Wasn't this done in Montana or some border state and like wolves can't read maps?
They don't have GPS either.
reintroduced
You need to start reading and educating yourself or you will have a hard time in these rooms. It happened back in 95 they were reintroduced, not saying some might of been here already. There are different theories on this one.
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I don't see you in my room?
Is there an intruder in my home?