With 3 months left in the Idaho wolf hunts, stretching in to wolf mating season, a brief examination of the numbers reveal gaping holes in Idaho’s math and highlight a true desire by the state to drive wolf numbers down significantly.

James William Gibson, professor of socialogy and author of A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature, wrote an editorial piece for the LA Times.

Matt Skoglund, writer for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s BioGems website, wrote an editorial criticizing the positive media spin being applied to the Montana wolf hunt.

For the first time in nearly a half a century, Sweden will allow wolf hunting after a decision to limit the country’s wolf numbers.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission will postpone consideration of next year’s wolf hunting season until spring to allow more time for public comment, FWP officials said today.  

  Ralph Maughan, on his well respected blog, reports the aerial shooting of a pack of Idaho wolves.

The Green Bay Press Gazette is reporting that a Wisconsin man has admitted to killing a Michigan wolf.

Idaho Fish and Game commissioners have extended the deadlines in all wolf hunting zones which haven’t hit their quotas well in to 2010.

KUSA-TV investigative reporter Deborah Sherman looks into illegal hunting in Colorado, including a particularly disturbed undercover video.

How many points is a bobcat worth? How many are a wolf worth? Hunters in idaho can buy a chance to participate in a contest to kill as many of Idaho’s predators as they can to win prizes