11-5 IAN Wolf e-mails

 Idaho Congressmen Mike Simpson and Walt Minnick recently sent a letter to Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar asking that the Department of Interior immediately address issues of critical importance in Idaho. Simpson and Minnick asked for cooperation from the Department to find solutions on the issues of wolf management in Idaho. In August, a U.S. district judge in Montana overturned the Fish and Wildlife Service decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in Idaho and Montana.  As a result, Idaho cannot manage wolves under the management plan approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service, including implementing a controlled wolf hunt for 2010. Here’s Congressman Simpson.

Governor Otter was disgusted and told us Idaho’s out of the wolf management business and some of you are mad as well. Here are a couple of e-mails I got. Undoubtably,wolf advocate groups will never be satisfied with any number of wolves. First it was 300 and now they want 2-3000. In the mean time Idaho's big game herds are being devastated. If these groups were truly the environmentalists they claim to be, why are they not concerned with the depletion of our big game herds from over predation by the grey wolf? The only way to stop this insanity is for our senators and representatives to pass legislation giving Idaho control of the grey wolf.

Will Idaho Fish & Game write tickets on wolves or not? If nothing more is done our Idaho Elk will be put on the endangered species list next.