Idaho just voted to spend tens of thousands of tax dollars to kill even more wolves.

 

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Idaho has already been slaughtering as many as 500 wolves a year, but apparently they don't think that's enough.1   After years of radically expanded hunting and trapping, wolf numbers are already on the decline. Now, for the second month in a row, the Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board has voted to spend vast sums of money to pay hunters for each and every wolf they kill.2   This is just a small part of the more than $1,000,000 that the state has set aside to finance the slaughter of gray wolves.3

1. Julie Luchetta, "Idaho Fish and Game approves plan to reduce wolf population from 1,300 to 500," Boise State Public Radio, May 12, 2023.   2. Rachel Cohen, "Idaho's wolf killings decline as board advances private contracts," Boise State Public Radio, May 10, 2024.   3. Keith Ridler, "Idaho wolf control board will have $1 million to kill wolves," Associated Press, January 19, 2022.