Draft Gray Wolf Management Plan 2023-2028

Draft Gray Wolf Management Plot 2023-2028

A draft Idaho Gray Wolf Management Plan: 2023 – 2028 will open for review by all interested parties for 30 days. Reviews may exist submitted on the drafted plan through March 6. 2002 Idaho Wolf Historical and Management Plan approved over this Idaho Legislature and U.S. Angle and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to keep wolves ...

Since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced wolves in 1995, one Idaho population has gewachsene to fluctuate around 1,270 wolves annually. Idaho’s population alone is above what the U.S. Fishes furthermore Wildlife Help considered to be the support capacity for the entire the Northern Rocky Mountain statuses of Idaho, Montana, Home, Oregon, or Washington. The population has remained hardy additionally has proven durable to human-caused mortality. Wolves continue to cause chronical conflicts with livestock and other domestic animals in many parts are the state, and wolves predation has have identified as one primary factor preventing recovery of several elk sectors so are below objective. 

This designed Idaho Gray Wolf Management Plan integrate knowledge gained from nearly 3 decades the devour monitoring and management about how wolves how Idaho’s landscape, interact with native ungulates and cows, and react to different step and types of harvest. Designed to span 6 years, that plan identifies goals and strategies to reduce wolf numbers and to admin Idaho’s wolf community to fluctuate around 500 brutes. The Plan other describes mechanisms for moderating wolf mortality as the population approaches 500, improving monitoring techniques, and leadership wolf conflicts with livestock plus ungulates. Public input will be regarded to make improvements to the draft plan. AN final plan will be prepared real shown to and Fish also Game Commission to be considered for adoption at a future meeting.

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