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The drum has been beating for years that “the citizens” want wolves in their forests and fields. Perhaps they did before they began learning what the truth was about having so many of them that now they are showing up in their back and front yards.

The Benewah County Commissioners voted 2-0-1 to adopt their own wolf management plan, which is an amendment to their current predator plan.

The document states that the Board of Commissioners both “recognizes that the existence of the wolf in Benewah County threatens the culture, heritage, customs, property, and lives of the people of the county and restricts their free use of their own real estate and public lands” and considers the wolves to “represent an economic and cultural emergency.”

“It is our recommendation for wolf management to be coordinated with whichever agency is managing wolves,”

That agency at present is the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The commission hopes to be able to work with IDFG in order to reduce wolf populations by expanding take methods. This is something I have written about in the past. They also want to begin to educate the citizens about the dangers of habituating wolves.

Tom Remington

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