USFWS wolf honcho says Wyoming plan may fly

[sdgunslinger]

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2003/01/2 1/build/wyoming/50-wolf-plan.inc
"But Ed Bangs, FWS coordinator in Helena, now says his agency will accept dual classification as long as there are other mechanisms in Wyoming's plan to ensure the population of wolves doesn't dip too low.


"Dual status isn't a problem as long as overall (the state) guarantees the wolf population in Wyoming is going to remain viable," Bangs said. "That's the bottom line, our major concern." "

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[Muledeer4me]

Sounds like a good plan.
Lets hope they get on with it.

 

[ELKCHSR]

Great find and looks very workable to me!!!!

 

[Ithaca 37]

Anybody really knowledgeable about this has known for a long time that what the Feds want is a safety margin above the wolf population goal so that it will be unlikely enough would get killed somehow to put the population below the goal again. Maybe the WY bill will be acceptable if it passes.

It's just common sense that if the state population goal is 220 wolves the Feds wouldn't let the hunting and killing start as soon as there were 220 wolves just in case all the big talkers do manage to kill a few of them and a few get hit by cars. Then they'd be below the goal again. Ya gotta have a safety margin.

 

[ELKCHSR]

There so danged sneaky and very few hunt any more, compared to the past, that I don't think the wolves will ever be exterminated by us, (hunters), even if we went out just for the sole purpose of getting wolves..So that isn't really a viable argument any more..Maybe once, but not now..