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Amen.

I always thought they were fair game. Now they are legal game.

216 wolves in Wyoming????

I'd say they are off, buy a LOT!

Great news, MH. Thanks. Now, how about trapping?

Idaho got a wolf hunting season first because they played the feds' game. WY got it later but I think it's a better system. Idaho has wolves in many places where they need to be shot on sight.

Yeah. "shot on sight". Them woofs are pretty good on not getting to the "on sight" part - especially after the first few are taken. Most will be take incidental to other activities.

You ain't never gonna catch up!

From an article in the Jackson newspaper today: " Besides the 210 wolves estimated in the trophy game area, there were another 108 in Yellowstone National Park, 50 in the predator zone and nine on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Mills said. That would put the statewide count at 377."

In early November 2015, I was on horseback mid-morning in the Shoshone NF and cut wolf tracks several times in the fresh snow then while was eating a sandwich looked up and there were three wolves within 200 yards weaving down a basin I had just ridden down. The wolves showed no fear and only mild curiosity. Some mule deer were in the basin and wolves trotted within 100 yards of then and did not go after the deer. Had seen a mature female grizzly two days earlier and apparently she did not get the message was after "be bear aware" season closed for the year. About 50 mule deer were within 50 to 200 yards of the bear though the deer were feeding and even in some cases not even facing the bear. The bear was rolling deadfall logs left over from the fire years before.

Isn't that the truth. 1000 wolves in 83k square miles doesn't put one behind every tree.

Still off by ALOT

Last year, there was confirmation of 6 packs between Lander and South Pass alone. Predator zone, ha. Wish I had saved the article on it. F&G must think we have no memory or are stupid.
Look at the land between those 2 locations. 2 confirmed packs South of the Sweetwater river, not counting the one they had to eliminate near Muddy Ridge West of Farson, because of calf kills. What percentage is that of say Central Wyoming to the Western border trophey area? Then look at the land total for the Wind River Reservation. Then look at the Pinedale region, which had numerous calf and elk kills, witnessed by area residents, and several articles about the problem back in 2007. Then look at Dubois, at least 2 packs within the immediate area of the town alone. And on and on.

Wyogal, I was in Elk area 25 last year and I saw 8 of them before noon.

And I had not gone more then about 6 miles from the pavement. All of them were from about 1 mile of the highway to about 1-2 miles past Oregon Butte.

One group of 3 and then a single about 1000 yards away. Next saw another single that was much lighter in color, and about 30 minutes later I drove the opposite way on the main road, and I saw anther group of 3.

There are a LOT more then the state of the feds are admitting to.

That fails to mention any in the Bighorns and unless someone lost a super big dog , I have seen tracks 50 miles apart up there..........

Wyoming 260, I hear ya. I have no doubt they're in the Bighorns. The areas I mentioned are only about 1/3 of the land mass from Central Wy to the trophy boundary area, and have at least 10 wolf packs total, just in those areas. That could conceivably be 70 wolves right there.
Wolves have been sighted in the Gas Hills and areas south and West of Jeffery City, and of course all around szihn's elk area, Atlantic City and into the Red Desert.

Hope you are all packing.. Hoping to get a shot this yr.