Jeff Welsch, the communications director for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in Bozeman, wrote a guest column for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle regarding the next few months and years of state-run wolf management.

Wolves faced two kinds of hunts during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last Thursday.

Wildlife advocacy groups are feeling the pressure of an impending and dangerous legislative solution, which could strip the Endangered Species Act of much of it’s power and leave wolves in all parts of the country at serious risk.

Ken Cole, writing on the well-known Ralph Maughan blog, reveals what “Butch” Otter says about the meeting which led to backroom wolf deal stalling.

According to a post that appeared on Ralph Maughan’s blog, written by Ken Cole, Idaho has suspended the 2008-2012 Wolf Management plan in favor of the draconian, politically-motived, 2002 Idaho Wolf Conservation and Management Plan.

According to the report written by Matthew Brown, from the Associated Press, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer said that Wyoming and Idaho had caused the talks to hit an impasse.

A post by Ken Cole on Ralph Maughan’s popular wolves.wordpress.com blog, states that Wildlife Services have dropped gassing of pups in their dens and sterilization but plans still contain heavy handed killing of wolves.

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming’s governors and governor-elects all met up with Secretary of the Interior, and rancher, Ken Salazar to discuss the wolf management “issue.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have suspended the progress of the Idaho petition to kill more than 40 wolves in the Lolo zone has to undergo a review before any decision will be made.

Kevin Richert, writing on the IdahoStatesmen.com Web site, is not pro-wolf. It’s not really anti-wolf either, but its certainly interesting and it carefully, and with little deviation, targets Otter for his cynical strategy and Wyoming for being the root cause of all the problems.