Rex Rammell, a former candidate for Idaho governor illegally shot and killed an elk near Idaho Falls, Idaho on November 20, using an invalid hunting tag according to officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. If A former canditate for governor was illegally poaching elk, one has to wonder how many other people are illegally poaching elk.
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We ask the Wildlife Service to reevalute why elk populations are in decline before concluding and blaming the wolf. The Clearwater National Forest was experiencing steep declines in elk numbers by 1988, long before wolves returned to the area. Keep the wolf on the Endangered Species List and stop plans for ariel hunting.
In 23 of the 29 elk management zones in Idaho, elk populations are at or above population targets. Many of those areas currently experiencing declines contain few or no wolves, yet the latest plan outlined in Wildlife Services' Draft Environmental Assessment Gray Wolf Damage Management in Idaho would allow Wildlife Services to use aerial gunning to kill wolves in order to unnecessarily and artificially boost elk populations.
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