It’s Official! Electronic Calls Legal for Idaho Wolf Hunts.
Idaho wildlife officials announced this past Wednesday evening that electronic game calls and trapping will be legal methods of take during their 2010 wolf hunting season.
Wolf - Courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service/Tracy Brooks
With Idaho elk herds in a steady decline and no reasonable recovery in sight, the game commissioners found it a reasonable step to include electronic calls as a wolf hunting method to help reach 2010 wolf harvest objectives. Remember that any action favoring wolf hunting or wolf hunters will face immediate opposition and legal challenges from well funded anti-hunting organizations. We are, however, optimistic that Idaho’s wildlife managers will prevail in moving forward this need based, well documented, biologically sound, action plan for better wolf control in their state.
For more details and commentary, see the article in the Idaho Statesman: Electronic Calls Fair Game in Idaho Wolf Hunts
After taking dozens of phone calls last season from hunters very interested in calling an Idaho wolf (that’s you California hunters!) we’re looking forward to actually being able to deliver them a Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom caller. Last season we had to turn ‘em down — not so this wolf season!
It’s no secret that Wildlife Technologies has the most revered wolf calling sounds and equipment in the world, and we’re excited to be on the forefront of what could be a state-by-state wave of wolf hunters taking to the field with a WT caller.
Remember that we have two Wildlife Tech caller options available: The Mighty Atom 15 and The Mighty Atom 21. Both callers deliver exceptional sound quality and excellent volume — the Mighty Atom 21 has more high end volume. To review the sound list for wolf calling, click here: Wildlife Technologies Wolf Sounds. And we have a full line of distress sounds ranging from elk, deer, and moose, to ambient noises like crows, hawks, and eagles, to create a wolf calling sound scene like no other.
Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 21
For a demo, call us toll-free at 1-877-734-1010 and we’ll play any or all of the wolf sounds for you.
Thank you again for reading. We’ll keep you up to date on the latest Idaho wolf hunting & calling changes. If there is anything we can do to help you get ready for an upcoming hunt, just give us a call.
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All the best this season,
Mark Healy
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Wooo hooo. I wonder how much longer before we get Wolf tags in Michigan? Might have to wait until enough fooofey dogs or a small child is eaten! : O
Weedwackr –
It seems to be all about future revenues to the state that gets the attention of the game managers and governor’s aides. When people stop buying permits to hunt other stuff then the wolf problem will be addressed.
You know…
The funny part about foofey dogs being eaten and children being stalked by coyotes, lions, or wolves, is that the people living the neighborhoods will say that they want something done, but really don’t – they have no stomach for reality. AZ Game and Fish dropped the shotgun hammer on two coyotes in the Biltmore housing area (Phoenix) and the residents (who called them for help) went berserk about the killings and started the stupid talk about relocation. Can you imagine the goat rodeo operation/media event and $150,000 price tag on relocating 2 coyotes?? Give me a break – we’d be spending $150,000 every few months with no end…ever!
The state game officers who really do care about diverse and balanced populations of wild game/predators and citizen safety get caught in a wishy-washy taxpayer game of come get these dangerous beasts!! But WAIT!! Can’t you just talk to them?? Dogs are really smart…they’ll listen…really, they will.
To really handle the matter (keep fluffy from being eaten directly out of its leash, keep the kids safe in the street, etc.) means killing a few coyotes, but the soft-centered homeowner overcome with anthropomorphic fantasies of reasoning with animals (that grow exponentially bolder with every non-threatening human encounter), really just wants a 24-7 coyote babysitter with a pocket full of scary firecrackers, a Boston rape whistle, and a bean-bag gun (used as a very last and less-lethal resort…of course!). If you’re the game ranger, it’s a no win situation for nothing more than a bureaucratic headache and a moderate income.
All the best in the field this fall!
Mark Healy
http://www.wildlifecallers.com
We can all be thankful we don’t live in France. I just had a conversation with a missionary from France on Saturday night. They have re-introduced wolves near the Alps there and France has a large population of domestic sheep. The wolves have taken a liking to the sheep and the French government will NOT allow the shepherds to protect their flocks. Instead, the government pays the shepherd for each sheep eaten. Its a never ending cycle, kinda like trying to relocate the infamous urban coyote.
So let’s say the French wolves take off…
Then what? Does France allow a hunting season to keep a balance? Or just like here in the US, do the “environmentalist” groups (in quotes because they have very little reverence for the environment – their agenda is really emotion based anti-hunting) block any attempts to hunt them at all?
I know that some people did NOT want the wolf to recover in the US at all. I am not in that camp. I want the wolves to thrive in numbers that compliment the natural environment. Now that they have rebounded and are causing elk herd populations to decline, it’s time to hunt them. They’re not in danger – they can be hunted without fears of extinction – they are like all other game animals – limit the number killed with science based harvest objectives and hunt them.
This fall I intend to do exactly that.
Mark Healy
PS. In France the hunts are a bit different anyway – when the wolves see people with rifles, they surrender.
So let me get this straight. You are the type of person who does not believe in the extinction of wolves? Though you hunt them? You claim that it is only to keep the population manageable but did yu ever stop to think how many other people may have that same thought? Think about it, if you were one of the many hunters in America that hunted wolves to keep them at a “manageable” amount. Then wouldn’t that lead to their demise? I believe this is just a lame excuse so people can do as they please. I mean, how would you like it if your or just people in general, were killed in this way? What makes the difference? Im sure your head would look just as nice hanging on a wall than any wolf pelt. Excuse me for the gruesome image but thats reality for you. Hunters dont realize what they are doing. They kill for pleasure, amusement, and money but what they dont realize is, they are killing off species. Its because of hunters that many mammals have nearly gone extinct. Many people are outraged this. And its all thanks to you people that these horrible things happen. Thanks so much for being a disgrace to the human race. Why cant you just learn to live with the world the way it is and stop being so self-centered?
Jessica,
Thanks for your comment. It seems that you are young and therefore I will give your ignorance the benefit of the doubt. Hunters are regulated by state wildlife management divisions that control how many animals can be harvested via issuing tags. Once the quota’s that have been set by said state wildlife divisions have been met, all hunting ceases for that particular animal. Managing wildlife populations has become necessary due to the natural ranges of animals becoming less and less due to human population growth and expansion into those habitats. State wildlife divisions are also funded in large part by the sale of hunting licenses, these funds are used to help manage and sustain healthy populations of animals.
Many species have become extinct, but most of those have not been because of hunting. Most have happened because humans have this notion that we are separate from the rest of the world and can do whatever we please to the planet without repurcussion.
You also might want to check your history, humans have been involved in the attempted extermination of their own kind in various places and times, it has been called ethnic cleansing (Bosnia), the holocaust (Nazi Germany) or whatever you like.
Your self rightous and simplistic view of hunting and “animal rights” needs to be revisited young lady, and you need to think before leaving such comments that you can’t back up with facts. I do not view myself as a disgrace to the human race and “living with the world the way it is” is exactly what I and many hunters do. It seems that your position would like to turn back the clock to a time that no longer exists, Oh but I forgot, early humans hunted as well, so you wouldn’t have been happy then either!