IDFG is practicing adaptive management

Mr. Ken Fishman has graced the readers of the Bee with his letters and biased opinion concerning wolves for quite some time and I for one am tired of his version of the facts. He is a member of the North Idaho Wolf Alliance and for those who don’t know they would like thousands of wolves in Idaho.

His interpretation of my remarks concerning “opening the tool box a little wider” is a good example of his irrational thinking. Wonder why he did not contact me to see what I meant with the remark? Suspect that he subscribes to the philosophy of “never confuse a good argument with the facts.” Poisons and land mines — give me a break. Next Mr. Fishman will be telling us that wolves survive by eating the sick, lame and lazy? The notion of predator control is a foreign concept to him.

IDFG’s intent is to utilize adaptive management to reduce the current wolf population that exceeds the agreed to species recovery numbers by as many as 10 times. Biologists would suggest between 1,000 and 1,500 wolves reside in Idaho and it will take hunting, trapping, IDFG and wildlife services using all legal methods of take to control this rapidly expanding population.

There is some truth to the wolf haters’ fable Little Red Riding Hood. Wonder what Mr. Fishman would say to the three mothers who have recently called me concerned with wolf tracks in their favorite family camping spot or around their children’s school bus stop?

TONY McDERMOTT

Sagle