In the name of fair “sport” Idaho will allow hunters to trap wolves and use electronic calls in order to try and guarantee hitting what was an aggressive quota which hunters failed to achieve in 2009.

The Montana FWP Commission has decided on a quota for the 2010 wolf hunt, and it more than doubles the 2009 quota.

May 2010 saw the Montana FWP Commission narrow down and approve three different quotas for the 2010 wolf hunt – July 8, 2010 sees a meeting where the Commission is expected to announce which quota they plan to use.

Matt Skoglund wrote a new entry in his Switchboard blog regarding the thoughts of NRDC on Montana’s second hunt.

As reported in this story Montana FWP were considering two options, both of which included drastically increasing the wolf hunt quota for 2010. Officials elected to go with the lower quota of the two proposed, but this still at least doubles the 2009 number.

HOWLColorado is not an anti-hunting organization. We feel this would be not only politically foolish, but also a tad hypocritical – wolves are predators after all.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks are considering a new hunting quota which would either more than double or even triple the current quota.

A press release from Earthjustice, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resource Defense Council and Center for Biological Diversity talks about the first wolf hunting season in decades coming to a close.

Idaho’s first wolf hunt in decades comes to an end after sunset on March 31, 2010 – with the quota being unmet.

An Idaho committee has voted to accept a bill which would protect the identities of hunters after those who shot wolves during the 2009 hunting season received harrassing calls and e-mails.