Idaho's new wolf reglations are on line. For those that want to go hunt a wolf there are some really excellent opportunities. They have taken a proactive approach in the northern Idaho units to reduce the conflicts with elk numbers, including a trapping season. Looks at first glance at a great plan. Maybe I will walk the Sawthooth Mtns one more time before to many more years.
Idaho Wolf Season
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DrMike
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Keep us posted, Bill. It would be great to see you tag a wolf in Idaho. The elk would thank you as well.
They also dropped to the 2002 numbers (15 breeding pairs or 150 wolves) from what they agreed to in 2005 which was about 518 animals. Glad to see they want them thinned as much as possible too. When it hit Fish and Games pocketbook they finally woke up. I still don't understand the limited kill quota's in some areas especially the Sawtooth. The head wolf guy told me the highest concentration of wolves in the state is in the S. Fork of the the Payette R. drainage. That is right in the middle of the Sawtooth area and also basically where they were released. I doubt you could kill them out of that area without poison. It's too rugged and remote to ever hunt them out of there.
Greg Nolan
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Thanks for the update. I'll check out the regs. I'll be prowling the sawtooth area between Morgan Creek above Challis over to Stanley and I've seen packs of wolves in what used to be my favorite elk and mule deer spot. I hope they are still there. I bought a wolf tag as soon as they became available just to make sure they didn't run out.
Greg
Greg
Greg Nolan
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I just noticed that the price for a non-resident wolf tag is $37 and you can purchase 2 tags. I paid about $180 for my wolf tag. It says there will be a refund system set up so I'll be watching and report back to the forum.
Greg
Greg
elkhuntinfool
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I'm trying to figure out if I want to pack the 270 loaded with 150 gr BT or the 300 win mag with 180 gr BT AB or PT with me while im out chasing elk with the bow.
This is probably some of the better news I've heard in a while :lol:
This is probably some of the better news I've heard in a while :lol:
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Bill,
That is some really good news! Good luck filling those tags.
Here in MI the DNR hired an outside agency to estimate the wolf population in the UP. The estimate was something like 580 wolves but local DNR have said off the record that the population is 3x. Lets hope they open up a season here soon.
JD338
That is some really good news! Good luck filling those tags.
Here in MI the DNR hired an outside agency to estimate the wolf population in the UP. The estimate was something like 580 wolves but local DNR have said off the record that the population is 3x. Lets hope they open up a season here soon.
JD338
Oldtrader3
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Ah wolf politics, alive and well in Michigan and elsewhere. It always amazes me how the well meaning liberals can distort numbers to suit their agenda!
That is a really good tag price for Idaho wolves, Bill. Kill a wolf, save 50 elk!
That is a really good tag price for Idaho wolves, Bill. Kill a wolf, save 50 elk!
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Elkman":2ia1kbr3 said:
Bill,
Come hunt with me, I have seen a few!
About 5 years ago, I had a pack come in right behind me about 50 yds away. I could not see them in the swamp but I could hear them. One howled and it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!
JD338
Oldtrader3
Ammo Smith
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When I worked up north in Quebec, years ago, they would cross or follow our snowshoe tracks everyday going in and out of the woods. We never saw one in the entire winter that I worked in that area, even though I saw tracks everyday. The only wild wolf that I ever saw was in California (a Mexican red wolf) which are "extinct" in that area of the White Mountains near Bodie.
atmoshpere
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I've only seen one wolf in the wild and it was standing on the edge of the Clearwater river SW of Lolo pass. I saw it from a bend in the road first and thought it was a deer (it was standing in the snow in the shade across the river which wasn't very wide that high up) but when we came around the next corner and it was right across from us I knew it was a wolf. Long legs with greyish tan fur, it bounded out of the snow and up into the trees. Very cool...I would love to hunt one someday. I'm glad the various agencies are seeing the light, as I think wolves should be managed like any other predator/game animal. Oregon will be a hard sell though as most of the politics come from the side without wolves...yet.
BeeTee
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Like the mule deer currently living in our yard and neighborhood, elk and deer in western Montana are now more often seen on ranches and in subdivisions. They fear the wolves far more than people.
Jim
Jim
I've seen probably close to 30 wolves in the last 6 years or so. The year before I shot mine we saw 1 right up near the top of a ridge and 8 in the canyon over the backside from where he was. It's high alpine country and timber pockets down low so you can see them from a long way off. The day before I shot mine I saw 4 at about 14-1500 yds.
Greg Nolan
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You bet, Jeff
The boys are back in town! 8)
The boys are back in town! 8)
