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I don’t get it. Wolves were never supposed to leave The Park (Yellowstone, for you out-of-staters), and yet there needs to be a management plan for wolves to be handed over to state control. Wyoming to the most “controversial” position and gave them dual-status, depending on location.

Up in my neck of the woods, (Cody), the critter has to get just a little before my back yard to kill on sight. If you go less than a mile west of where I live, you gotta have a license during a designated hunting season, or special permission from G&F to kill wolves pestering your own livestock. I kinda feel like I live in a boarder town (though I haven’t seen any wolves in my yard, yet) Hopefully  the wolves will choose against hiding out at the aiport since it is located in the trophy game zone. Of course, to the State’s advantage, wolves can be shot by G&F officials when they are conducting wolf management operations, so the airport might be a good area for a wolf pack to form.

If you go a little over 30 miles south of where I live,  the line moves way west off Wyoming 120, almost up to the national forest line, down to Pinedale, and then up along U.S. 189, and over to the  western state, on up to the northern state line and then back down Wyoming 120. Presumably, now that the wolf is delisted, Colorado has  a plan for managing the critters for wolves near I-70 or near Rocky Mountain National Park. If they go with dual classification, hopefully they don’t choose I-25 and I-70 as the boundaries just for the sake of appeasing Boulder.Of course that would give the wolves a large attractive safe haven once they learn that the vast expanses of Wyoming are bad for their health. They could happily enjoy the wolf, and we could happily enjoy their absence from the state.

In some positive news about the Fed’s giving control of the beasts to the State, there has yet to be a challenge (though there are rumblings of intent to sue). It is encouraging to see the special interest groups taking an almost wait-and-see approach instead of just challenging because they see animals as being more important than humans. And because we’re such freedom loving folks in Wyoming, people are taking advantage of living outside the trophy game zone. Three predator wolves since D-Day (that’s D for Delisting) have been reported as shot and killed to the G&F. Now is when all the enviro-maniacs scream.

In other positive news, I can confidently and proudly say that some of my Wyoming  blogger friends live safely outside the trophy game area, and so I salute the three you with some link love. Keep up the good work ladies!

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