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Speak Out Against Idaho's Wolf Plan! Vist our.idahowolves.org
 

Speak Out Against Idaho's Wolf Plan! Vist our.idahowolves.org
Poster by Rick Hobson, Boise, Idaho.
© 2007.

 

Buffalo Ridge Wolves, Seen at Night. Ken Cole Photos.
Buffalo Ridge Wolves, Seen
at Night. Ken Cole Photos.

FAREWELL TO BUFFALO RIDGE PACK
February 28, 2008

The Pack has been "Lethally Controlled"
Alpha Male B-196 is Missing
LOOK AT Boulder-White Clouds Council's newspaper ad which ran in the Challis Messenger, March 13, 2008.
 

Introducing the "Phantoms"
A new pack near Ketchum
that's at high risk.
 

FOR UPDATED WOLF INFO:

>idahowolves.org
idahowolves.org is maintained by Idaho wolf advocacy groups and is updated regularly.

>Resisting Delisting
Resisting delisting of wolves is detailed on this website.

>Dr. Ralph Maughan's Wildlife Blog
wolves.wordpress is Dr. Ralph Maughan's wildlife blog and often features wolf news.

>forwolves.org
forwolves.org is Dr. Maughan's old wolf site, which has excellent archives.

>USFW Wolf Page
This is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website.

>IDFG Wolf Page
This is the Idaho Deptartment of Fish and Game website.

>International Wolf Center
World-renowned wolf center located in Ely Minnesota with an extensive website (includes gift shop).


ABOUT WOLVES
Boulder-White Clouds Council has long been interested in wolves, but we became seriously involved in the issue with the White Cloud Pack (1999-2000), Stanley Pack (2000) and the Whitehawk Pack (2001-2002).

Now there are several new packs in and around the Boulder-White Clouds that we are trying to protect and keep from harm. These include Basin Butte, Galena, Buffalo Ridge, Phantom Hill, Pass Pack and Bear Valley.

As of January 2008, Idaho's wolves number about 800 and are doing well in some parts of the state, while not in others. Conflicts with sheep and cattle prevent wolf pack survival. Wolves would be helped if agencies and ranchers used more pro-active, non-lethal methods to keep wolves and livestock apart. And, if more of our public lands were without sheep and cattle.

Unfortunately, three different elements now threaten the survival of most wolves in Idaho and the Northern Rockies:

  1. 2007 Proposed Idaho Wolf Population Management Plan
    *Read our Alert
    *Read our Comments
    (PDF)
    *See Video "Of Wolves & Wilderness" at wwpblog.com
    *March 6, 2008 - Final IDFG Wolf Population Mgt Plan
     
  2. 2008 Delisting Wolves from the Endangered Species Act
    *Learn More & Read Our 2007 Alert
    *February 27, 2008 - Fish & Wildlife Service Final Rule Delisting
    the Distinct Population Segment of the Northern Rocky Mountain
    Gray Wolf
    *February 27, 2008 - Earthjustice files 60-day Notice to sue on Delisting
     
  3. 2008 10(j) Rule Modification to Make Wolves Easier to Kill
    Final 10(j) Rule issued January 24, 2008. Earthjustice files lawsuit to block further weakening of an already bad rule.
    *Read the Earthjustice Press Release
    *Read the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Final 10(j) Rule

LOOK AT BWCC's mid-May 2006 wolf trips with
Steve Nadeau, IDFG Large Carnivore Manager.

READ Ralph Maughan's essay on: Wolves as "wildlife terrorists."
A wolf terrorist? That's idiocy, but some people believe it. Why?

MORE INFO, ARTICLES, NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
2003
>Week of May 28 - June 3, 2003, Idaho Mountain Express
Wolves return to Sawtooth Valley SNRA, Clayton packs bring new hope, tensions
By GREGORY FOLEY, Express Staff Writer

On a clear, spring day this month in the Sawtooth Valley north of Ketchum, Curt Mack, gray wolf project leader for Idaho's Nez Perce Tribe, surveyed the foothills of the White Cloud Mountains for signs of wolf activity.

"This is good wolf country," he said. "They can den in the hills and then come down to hunt. There's plenty of territory and plenty of food along the edges."

He pulled off state Highway 75 and into a lightly vegetated pasture, where he soon began to talk about the 19-or-so packs of wolves that inhabit Idaho lands, including one small group that has settled amid the forested hills near Champion Creek.

"It's an alpha female and an alpha male," he noted. "They just had their first litter with five new pups."...
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE...->
 

2006
>May 9, 2006, Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report
Wolf dines near Stanley, Idaho—interrupts slack season in tiny mountain town
By Lynne Stone

Friday May 5, 2006. Stanley, Idaho. A large gray wolf stirred up our tiny mountain town of Stanley yesterday as it killed a runt yearling elk calf within view of the city limits. Stanley librarian, Jane Somerville, saw the wolf among the local elk herd about 9 a.m., and shortly the wolf had chosen its prey and pulled the small calf down. It was over quick. After the kill, the herd of some 60 elk moved about 100 yards away and continued to forage on the Spring grass...
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE...->

>May 14, 2006, Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report
Mother's Day wolf story from Stanley
By Lynne Stone

After a magnificent full moon night lighting up the snow-covered Sawtooth Mountains, I stumbled out of the cabin at dawn. With coffee and camera in hand I drove to the usual vantage points in hopes of seeing wolves. I didn’t have to wait long...
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE...->

>December 22, 2006, Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News
Photos of Galena Pack near Stanley
Story By Ralph Maughan, Photos by Lynne Stone

Like last May, the Galena Pack has come down out of the White Cloud Mountains in the vicinity of Stanley, ID...
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE...->
 

2007
>May 30, 2007, Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report
Shot Fired in Memorial Day Stanley Wolf Incident
By Lynne Stone

Around noon on Sunday, a gray wolf was seen chasing a cow elk through Jay Nieder's pasture just south of Stanley. An eyewitness reported that the cow elk jumped into the swollen Salmon River and started swimming for the west shore, only its head visible in the high water...
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE...->
 

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