New bill would allow for 90 percent of wolves in the state to be killed
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For the Idaho legislature, it seems, the only good wolf is a dead wolf.
In late April, the Idaho legislature passed a bill that would allow hunters to kill up to 90 percent of Idaho’s wolf population. The legislation is now awaiting Governor Brad Little’s signature. If signed into law, hunters and trappers will be able to kill as many wolves as they d like without restrictions.
The Idaho legislature’s savagery does not stop at doing away with hunting limits. The law would permit hunters to run down wolves with motorized vehicles and hunt in the dark using night-vision equipment (nearly all states restrict hunting to daylight hours). It would also extend the trapping season on private property to year-round, even during the breeding season, and allow hunters to trap or shoot as many animals as they want on a single tag. The law would also allow
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WASHINGTON (KIFI)-The U.S. Humane Society (USHS) is among conservation groups calling out the Idaho Senate for an end-run on Idaho’s wolf management regulations.
Just a day after it was introduced, the Humane Society claims the Idaho Senate passed legislation is aimed at killing as many wolves as possible.
The USHS claims the state would slash the wolf population to 15 packs, or 150 animals. There are currently an estimated 900 to 1,556 currently in the state.
The Center for Biological Diversity said the bill would eliminate 90% of the wolf population.
“The Idaho Senate’s sudden move to pass this bill in the eleventh hour incentivizes the cruel deaths of more than 1,000 wolves across the state,” said Andrea Zaccardi, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The consequences of this bill will be horrendous. This brutal war on wolves must be stopped, and we urge the House to deny this bill.”