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A state district court judge who had issued temporary restrictions on Montana’s wolf hunting and trapping season declined to extend those restrictions on Tuesday.![]()
Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Christopher Abbott’s decision comes after a day-long hearing on Monday in Helena featuring testimony from both WildEarth Guardians and Project Coyote, who brought the lawsuit, and the defendant, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.![]()
The suit filed in October alleges that FWP has failed to timely review its 2002 wolf management plan, that the use of a model to estimate populations illegally amended the plan without public involvement and is unreliable, and that killing wolves near national parks conflicts with federal law.![]()
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Abbott issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month in response to the lawsuit, disallowing the use of snares to trap wolves and reducing the maximum bag limit from 20 — 10 hunting and 10 trapping — to five. That order also restored wolf management units and low quotas adjacent to Yellowstone and Glacier national parks. That order expired on Tuesday, restoring all regulations passed by the commission in August.![]()
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Documents show ‘inhumane’ approach to B.C. wolf cull, group says![]()
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The B.C. government is facing new criticism over its controversial wolf cull program.![]()
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The province has maintained that the program, which is meant to reduce predators and protect threatened caribou populations, is carried out in a humane way.![]()
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But the Fur-Bearers, a non-profit animal welfare group, says it has obtained documents using freedom of information filings that show hunters tagging and tracking young pups to help kill wolfpacks.![]()
In his latest inquiry, Hofman said the group discovered something that hadn’t been previously known to the public: that wolf pups as well as adults have been gunned down.![]()
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“To us it’s completely unethical, it’s completely counter to any principles of ethical wildlife control,” he said.![]()
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“And it’s really counter to the government’s assertion that the wolf cull is humane. It clearly isn’t.”
Documents show ‘inhumane’ approach to B.C. wolf cull, group says | Globalnews.ca
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The province maintains that the program, which is meant to reduce predators and protect threatened caribou populations, is carried out in a humane way.NWC Business Office
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