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I'm okay with shooting identified problem wolves...not an open season on any wolves. At least not now. And very opposed to wolf eradication which is what people like the ranchers in question are after from what I can tell.
There is no open season,it is controlled.
The rancher actually suggested controlling the wolves not eradicating them.
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Konen doesn't want to wade into the debate over the reintroduction of wolves in the Rockies, but said that in his opinion, it's time to stop managing wolves and start controlling them.
"My bucks were on private ground, in a pasture where we've been pasturing them for 50 years. The wolves were intruders that were in the wrong place," he said.
By the way,wolves were eradicated from Montana in the early 1900's....
The wolves there presently could have either ranged down from Canada OR have come from their reintroduction into Yellowstone.
Just thought you might like to know that.
"The grey wolf is an issue if not yet a reality in the Tongue River Basin, and there have been unconfirmed sightings of wolves in the more remote areas of the basin."
That's from Wikipedia: "Tongue river basin" area of Montana.
Although wolves dispersing from Canada were occasionally observed, gray wolves were essentially extirpated from Montana and the rest of the western United States in the early 1900s primarily due to conflicts with people. Wolves started recolonizing the area around Glacier National Park in 1979 and the first den documented in Montana in over 50 years was found in Glacier National Park in 1986. Wolves have since colonized much of northwestern Montana as a result of dispersal from Canada and Glacier National Park. In 1995 and 1996 wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho.
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