Idaho Fish & Game Director Virgil Moore told JFAC this morning that as of yesterday, Idaho hunters had killed 206 wolves during the state's wolf hunting season, and trappers had taken 60. "That's a total of 266 wolves taken so far in this hunting season," Moore said. In addition, about 60 more were killed in depredation actions, either through landowner action or or wildlife services efforts; that brings the total wolves to date in the past year to 326 "that have been harvested or taken for various purposes," Moore said. "We think we're beginning to put some important pressure on those animals."

This year's was only the state's second-ever wolf hunting season; the first was in 2009, but then wolves were returned to the endangered species list. "I feel real proud of the work that the department has done, and the help that we got from Congressman Simpson in getting the congressional authority to get out from underneath the judicial trap that we'd been in for so many years relative to wolf management.."

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