I have been very outspoken about wolves. I know it is a controversial subject with a lot of passion on both sides. Let me make it perfectly clear. I have nothing against wolves. We had a healthy population of wolves in the Idaho wilderness before the invasion oops reintroduction. There was a wolf killed in this valley in 1988 by a rancher after the wolf had killed livestock. Other wolves were also occasionally seen here. Wolves were commonly seen in the massive wilderness/primitive areas of central Idaho. But to bring in the larger species and then put all wolves on the endangered list was totally irresponsible by the government. The wolves would be fine if they were properly managed but they are being allowed to run free. From the few they said they planted in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming they have spread into all the neighboring states. The feds finally admitted that a wolf pack was established in Utah two years ago, despite wolves being seen regularly in the Promontory range as early as 2000. And in 2003, and 2004, several wolves were killed attacking livestock in NE Utah. I am sure by now Colorado has several packs as well. Two years ago a pack was confirmed in the Cascades. Now it is five packs. They said that first pack had migrated from the Frank Church wilderness in Idaho. Let me see, a pack of wolves decideds to migrate, so they leave the Church, cross 100 miles of the Payette NF into the Seven Devils on the Idaho side of Hells Canyon, cross the canyon to the Hells Canyon Wilderness on the Oregon side, cross the Eagle Cap Wilderness, cross the Blue Mountains, cross the Sisters Wilderness and take up residency in the Cascades? Without stopping at all those other pristine wilderness'? If those wolves migrated, it was in the back of a Fed biologists truck.
