Outrageous! $100 Bribe to entice wolf slaughter!

Field reports: Montana group offers $100 for wolf kills

The Spokesman-Review

 

PREDATORS – While Idaho is using trappers and helicopter gunners to reduce wolf numbers, a Montana sportsmen’s group is essentially offering a bounty.

The Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife is offering $100 and an annual membership for photographs of wolves killed in any open wolf hunting district between Dec. 19 and the Feb. 15 end of the season, or until a quota is filled.

“This contest is one way to encourage folks to get out and harvest wolves,” said the organization’s president, Keith Kubista of Stevensville.

So far, hunters have killed 113 wolves of the 220 quota set for the state’s second wolf hunting season.
Kubista said the group is worried that the quota won’t be met this year because hunters aren’t focusing their efforts on wolves. Wolves do not have the cultural and resource values that elk, deer and moose have for hunters, he said, noting that people don’t eat wolves.

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