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MT Pockets............as I understand it the state of Wyoming, and Montana as well, would love to have a controlled permit hunt for grizzly.........but your Federal government won't let them. Until you can get the Feds to downlist the grizzly from the federal endangered speices list, the states do not have any powers to establish an annual allowable harvest and implement a season.
As for wolves, I can only sympathize with hnter. When the park boys were busy importing some of our Canadian wolves to transplant in Yellowstone, many of us up here were shaking our heads. What is happening now to you in the western states is exactly what those of us that live with them day in and day out knew would happen.
Our Canadian anti-hunting types have taken away our game managers abilities to do winter wolf culls in areas where they were hammering the big game, but we can still hunt them and trap them. Ain't perfect but at least there is some control......and Conservation officers will even set poison (very controlled) if a rancher is having grief.
You guys have the Feds listing the wolves with the grizzlies as endangered, and you can be rest assured it will be a long hard struggle to get seasons allowed for either. You folks have way more anti-hunters than we do and the media has everyone brainwashed that wolves and grizzlies continue to be on the brink of extinction. Politicians seldom do anything that may harm them in the next election and any talk of hunting wolves or grizzlies causes a great hue and cry by the well intentioned but misinformed masses.
It will eventually happen up here to.....but it will just take a lot longer. These problems are already occuring in the province of Ontario, as far as bear and wolf management goes, and not surprisingly it is the largest stronghold of urbanites and Disney worshippers in Canada.
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