1995
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>January
1995
15 gray wolves captured in Alberta, Canada were released in Central
Idaho. In March, 14 wolves were brought to Yellowstone Park.
1996
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>January
1996
20 gray wolves from British Columbia were released in Central Idaho.
In April, 17 wolves were brought to Yellowstone Park.
2001
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>2001
The State of Idaho asks the federal government to remove wolves from
the state by any means possible after the Idaho Legislature adopts
House Joint
Memorial No. 5.
2002
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>2002
The Idaho Wolf Conservation and Management Plan (State Plan) was
finalized by the Idaho Legislative Wolf Oversight Committee, amended
and eventually approved by the Legislature. Wolf supporters view the
Plan as a wolf control plan, rather than a conservation plan.
Visit Idaho Fish & Game's
website.
2005
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>January
2005
USFWS Modification of the ESA
10(j) Rule to “allow more flexibility” to manage wolves.
2006
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>January
2006
Idaho takes over management of gray wolves after
USFWS approval of Idaho’s state
wolf plan. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will now manage
wolves.
2007
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>February
2007
USFWS publishes in the Federal
Register its proposed Final Rule
Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a
Distinct Population Segment and Removing This DPS from the Federal
List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. (PDF)
This Northern Rocky Population
includes all of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, the eastern 1/3 of
Oregon and Washington, and a small part of north-central Utah.
Hearings on the proposed final rule
were held around Idaho.
>March
2007
Learn more and read BWCC's 2007
Delisting Alert.
>November 2007
The Draft Idaho Wolf Population Management Plan for 2008-2012 was
released by IDFG for
public comment.
>December 2007
When IDFG failed to schedule a hearing in pro-wolf Blaine County,
elected officials stepped up and asked for one.
Learn More:
At the Hailey wolf hearing in December
2007, wolf supporters expressed that they would like a wolf plate on
their vehicle, and the mock-ups below were offered for view. Blaine
County leaders were receptive to like the idea, but thought the
Idaho Legislature wouldn't be too enthused.
2008
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>January
28, 2008
An ESA 10(j) rule modification that makes wolves easier to kill is
published by USFWS in the Federal Register:
Revision of Special
Regulation for the Central Idaho and Yellowstone Area Nonessential
Experimental Populations of Gray Wolves in the Northern Rocky
Mountains. (PDF)
The 10(j) rule now says that wolves
can be shot when someone believes they are chasing, molesting or
harassing livestock, packstock or guard dogs. Wolves can also be
killed if authorities deem they are eating too many elk. Litigation
from conservation groups on the revised 10(j) rule is pending.
Earthjustice will sue
USFWS over the 10(j) rule. Read the Earthjustice
Press Release.
>February
27, 2008
USFWS issues its 48-page Final
Rule Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf
as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing This DPS from the
Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.
Read the Fish & Wildlife Service Final Rule. (PDF)
Earthjustice files 60-day notice to sue on delisting.
Read the notice to sue on
delisting. (PDF)
>February
28, 2008
The Idaho Legislature approves Law 36-1107, which strips wolves of
nearly any protection. 36-1107 says that a wolf can be killed if its
molesting livestock or domestic animals. Molesting is defined as
“annoying, disturbing or persecuting ... chasing, driving, flushing,
worrying, following after or on the trail stalking or lying in wait
for livestock or domestic animals.”
>March
6, 2008
Read the final
IDFG Wolf Population Mgt Plan.
Poster by Rick Hobson,
Boise, Idaho.
©
2007.
>April
2008
IDFG proposes a wolf
hunting season with an annual mortality number of 328 wolves through
hunting and other means. In May the IDFG Commissioners boosted the
number to 438.
Learn More:
>July
18, 2008
U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy of Missoula, Montana, orders a
preliminary injunction that immediately reinstates temporary ESA
protection for gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains (NRM).
>September
2008
U.S. Dept. of Justice files a motion to the Federal District Court
in Missoula, MT, requesting that the Feb. 28, 2008 NRM wolf
delisting final rule be vacated and remanded back to the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for
further action and consideration.
Read more from the lawyers at Earthjustice.
>October
14, 2008
Judge Molloy vacates the final delisting rule and remands it back to
USFWS. This ends the lawsuit by
conservation groups and reestablishes full ESA protection for gray
wolves in the NRM -- as much as the ESA 10(j) rule allows.
Read what Earthjustice has to say.
>October
28, 2008
The USFWS re-opened the public
comment period on its delisting proposal for Northern Rocky Mountain
gray wolves. USFWS’ latest delisting plan excludes Wyoming wolves
since the Wyoming state management plan is inadequate to maintain
minimum wolf numbers. This latest efffort by USFWS, is nearly the
same flawed plan that's based on politics, rather than science, that
Judge Donald Molloy rejected in July.
>November
6, 2008
IDFG Commissioners,
grumpy that delisting was overturned by Judge Donald Molloy,
therefore halting their plans for a massive wolf hunting season in
Idaho, came up with "Wolf Management Directives". The directives
order the Department (IDFG): "To develop and aggressively utilize
all available tools and methods to control wolf-caused depredation
of domestic livestock." Also, to use the ESA 10(j) Rule to "develop
and aggressively utilize all available tools and methods to control
wolves" in areas where wolves are claimed to be impacting elk.
Read the Directives. (PDF)
>December
2008
Update on effect of ESA 10(j) rule: The
10(j) rule is responsible for scores of wolf deaths. In Idaho alone
as of December 31, 2008, 94 wolves have been killed in agency
control actions. This number does not include wolf pups that died of
starvation after their lactating mothers were shot in April and May
by order of IDFG. Another 57 wolves have died in Idaho by other
means including being shot by ranchers. Wolves are still being
killed almost daily. The 10(j) rule must be changed.
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