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Edition Date: 06-20-2006


Wolves are menace

If one assumes that one wolf kills only one elk per week, that means over 30,000 elk were killed last year by wolves in Idaho; that doesn't consider the stress and strain the constant predatory wolves have on elk herds. Cows go unbred and abort calves.

Statewide harvest by hunters is only 20,000. How does losing so many elk to wolves benefit the state? If hunters contribute $60 million to the economy consider the risk that wolves present. That is an average of $3,000 contributed to the economy per elk killed by a hunter. Now consider the cost that wolves have on the economy for each elk they kill; this doesn't even consider other wildlife or ranching impacts.
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Harvest is down despite an increase in the number of hunters, and these statewide reporting numbers gloss over the details in areas of wolf concentrations. What the article failed to report was, to keep hunters buying tagEdition Date: 06-20-2006 []




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