ORIGINAL: jones123
ORIGINAL: jones123
I still think yer wrong, or maybe MT is different. This is becoming less than relevant, but now I just gotta know. I will let you know what I find out from my same ranching buddies.
From The Western Roundup, January 25,2005:
In early January, Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced that the federal government will give Idaho and Montana more control over threatened gray wolves . . . . .
Previously, ranchers needed written authorization from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to kill wolves, and the wolves had to be caught in the act of attacking livestock. Under the rule change, ranchers in Idaho and Montana can now kill wolves without federal permission, simply for chasing livestock.
I stand corrected.
Actually, I'm
mostly corrected. I am sure that having to get permission was about the asme as not being allowed. That would explain the stories about USFS relocating instead of allowing the rancher to kill the wolf.
From the same article - one less moose for the rest of us. The wolf didn't need to pay for a license . . . .
A gray wolf on a moose kill in Montana.
D. Robert and Lorri Franz/Corbis
Yes because there is an extreme shortage of moose around these parts.
