Montana Wolves. Proposed quota change

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Note that the quota was not filled last year. 308 wolves taken.

Regarding biological vs social "carrying levels", if they want to "manage" to social levels then
the legislature should eliminate ALL jobs relating to biological studies.

*Edit*. I don't know how raising the quote will help unless there are quite a few guys limiting out.
That would surprise me.

How about trying bounties, year long open season, poison, ariel hunting, etc?



Wolf report from 0:00 to 3:20
 
Atleast you don’t have the opposite problem.

Last wi wolf hunt ended with a significant amount over quota being taken. And lasted like a day.

And to this day we can’t hunt them because of politics.
 
I commented on this during the season setting meetings in June.

To me, this is politics. We don't fill the quotas as is, what's the point of increasing them?

I believe it also significantly increases the chance the State gets sued and doesn't win if our quotas don't make biological sense.

I just see this as political pandering to a group of people that love complaining about wolves but are really bad at actually killing them.
 
I think opening the season to run concurrently with spring bear would move the needle a bit as well. I’ve had multiple opportunities on wolves while hunting in the spring, not so much once September rolls around.
I agree, I’m not sure how upping quotas that don’t get filled is supposed to help.
 
I didn’t see in the proposal that it lengthens the trapping season due to the judge. Sure a few more wolves will be killed but without extending the trapping the quota will not be met.
 
The one thing about the new proposal which did seem beneficial is the ability to hunt wolves (plural) with the purchase of one tag. The revenue drop, if I recall, was less than $50k. But dropping the requirement to have an individual tag for each wolf does seem beneficial to the hunter/ trapper.
 
The one thing about the new proposal which did seem beneficial is the ability to hunt wolves (plural) with the purchase of one tag. The revenue drop, if I recall, was less than $50k. But dropping the requirement to have an individual tag for each wolf does seem beneficial to the hunter/ trapper.
Why should this be a thing? And $50k is still $50k. It probably pays for over 50% of one warden's salary.
 
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