IDAHO DROPS WOLF HUNT

Conservationists delighted 

Idaho wolf conservationists are happy, and for good reason. The state has notified federal land managers that it will not reinstate a controversial program to kill wolves in a national wilderness area.By Megan Hamilton     8 hours ago in Environment

Idaho's Department of Fish and Game hired a hunter in 2013 to trap and kill wolves in the mountains of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, an area that is federally protected. The department did this in response to complaints from hunters who said wolves in that area were reducing the size of elk herds, Reutersreports.

The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

United States Forest Service

Last year the state agency suspended the program after the hunter trapped and killed nine wolves. Conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, filed suit in federal court. The conservationists alleged that the wolf roundup violated principles of limiting human intervention in federally protected wilderness areas.

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