> “I think (the new law) will be very effective,” said Steve Alder of Idaho for Wildlife, a group that wants wolf populations reduced to boost elk numbers. “I really do think that they’ll finally get wolves down to the 150.”
> He said the most effective new wolf hunting methods will be professional trappers sent into the state’s rugged wilderness areas and the use of aerial gunning from helicopters. Adler said most regular hunters never see wolves or kill them but will now have much better odds of doing so using night-vision equipment.
> He recalled a winter camping trip when he said wolves were “all around us in the dark.”
> “Had we had the ability to use night-vision, we could have harvested a lot of wolves,” Alder said.
> He said the most effective new wolf hunting methods will be professional trappers sent into the state’s rugged wilderness areas and the use of aerial gunning from helicopters. Adler said most regular hunters never see wolves or kill them but will now have much better odds of doing so using night-vision equipment.
> He recalled a winter camping trip when he said wolves were “all around us in the dark.”
> “Had we had the ability to use night-vision, we could have harvested a lot of wolves,” Alder said.