Yes, there is a hunting and trapping/snaring season {portions of the State} here in Idaho. Trappers must attend a mandatory wolf trapping meeting/training seminar in order to trap/snare wolves. {I have completed the course.}

See the IDFG website for details.

Trappers can BUY 5 tags. Rifle hunters can BUY 2.

BUY tags to control vermin that are depredating livestock and destroying the precious resource of Idaho's elk, deer and moose herds.

BUY tags to control vermin that keep kids in the house instead of playing in the back yard. {Most recently here, a wolf was shot from the porch as it stood in a fellow's front yard just last week a few miles from here.}

BUY tags to proactively protect cattle, sheep, horses and pets. And children.

BUY tags to send revenue to a bureuacracy charged with protecting the game they allow to dwindle.

Wolves are, from a management standpoint, impossible to "hunt". It is nonsense to suggest that wolf populations will be threatened or reduced to the State-agreed-upon number of 150. We have an estimated 1200-2000 in the State now. Past biological studies indicate population reduction would require at from 600 to 1000 wolves to be killed in Idaho this season. It will not occur.

I have compiled the history of Federal wolf control in the West and will guarantee this; the Montana plan is a joke of embarrassing proportions. The Idaho plan including the portions of the State where wolves may be trapped is somewhat better, but still will not provide for RECOVERY of elk populations and in fact will not provide for decrease of wolf populations. Period.