LA, Great! I hope all the wolf haters decide to comment this time, having learned the hard way that those of us who do get involved on the ground floor just laugh at the late arrivers when they bitch about being left out. FYI, my origional comments were that wolves should not be re-introduced, but allowed to increase on their own if possible. At the time we already had about twenty five naturally occurring wolves in ID. And even though my advice wasn't taken I, at least, knew I had made my opinion known. That's one reason why I don't bitch about wolves.
Please re-think having the MT FWP pay for everything. I don't know if FWP gets funds from the MT general fund, but if they don't why should sportsmen pay for all wolf management? Except for being able to say, "We're paying for this so keep out of it!" to everyone else, hunters and fishermen wouldn't get much benefit. And how about the tourist industry? Will it benefit? How about all the non hunters and fishermen in MT who are in favor of wolves? Should they help pay for the management? I know all the pitfalls, too, but dumping management costs for all species on hunters and fishermen doesn't seem equitable---especially for non game species.
