I'll add that, as you know, but others don't, Montana bent over and took it from the enviro's, and selected as a total statewide quota 75 {seventy-five!} wolves. 75 for the whole state. A paltry, embarrassing joke of a figure, calculated to be the least possible number they could select without causing an uproar among hunters of the state, and calculated to be as pleasing to the greens as possible. That number will not stop wolf increase at all.

Our quota of 220 will not stop increase, either, as recruitment is calculated to outstrip harvest.

I do not know how easy it is to kill a wolf in every part of the state. There are likely some areas easier than others. But in heavily timbered mountains killing wolves with a rifle is very difficult indeed. Impossible to reduce numbers in fact, acknowledged in the Judge's decision! And thus the reason for use of poison in order to get rid of them in the first place.