“Yellowstone officials expressed displeasure at a Montana state plan to increase grey-wolf hunting that also rejects the idea of a no-hunting buffer near the Park.The new wolf-hunting rules, as they stand now, would allow a hunter to bag five wolves during a longer season and set quotas in areas outside Yellowstone. When setting the new Montana wolf hunt rules, the Montana Legislature specifically prohibited a no-hunting zone near the Park.
Still, there’s some wiggle room, and Montana wildlife commissioners are expected to use that wiggle room to lessen the impact on Yellowstone wolves. Hunters near the Park would be allowed only one wolf, and the areas where quotas would apply is expanded.
That may not be enough to placate Yellowstone officials, who say the new Montana wolf hunt law targets Yellowstone wolves. Wildlife doesn’t respect human boundaries like Park limits and state lines, and given the propensity of wolves to wander over a large range in the course of a year, it’s inevitable that many will go into Montana — where, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say, the wolves become Montana’s problem. Last year 12 Yellowstone wolves were killed in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming after leaving Yellowstone.
Yellowstone’s chief scientist Dave Hallac said he appreciated the changes but added that it was unclear whether the commissioners will accept the agency’s recommendations.
“The park is not anti-hunting,” Hallac said. “What we’re trying to do is balance the conservation of wolves in Yellowstone, which are not an exploited population right now, with some level of reasonable harvest.”
Wildlife commission chairman Dan Vermillion said the move to lower the bag limit to one wolf near Yellowstone – versus five animals elsewhere in the state – was about increasing hunter opportunity, so that one hunter couldn’t fill the entire quota.
The presence of wolves in Yellowstone is still a contentious issue for sportsmen, who argue wolves diminish the number of elk in the region, and area ranchers who say their livestock is threatened by wolves.”
**Special thanks to the “Yellowstone Insider” for providing this information (http://yellowstoneinsider.com/2013/07/09/officials-montana-wolf-hunt-sets-sights-on-yellowstone-wolves/)!
The Wolf Preservation Blog 
The group that thinks they can play God, the anti-wolf folks, are at it again, targeting Yellowstone wolves. Once again, they intervene with natures normal balance to fulfill their egotistical trigger happy fingers. Keeping food on the plate is one thing but this is not about that. It’s about the thrill of the hunt, trophies, and wanting to increase ungulate populations to overpopulation for their sporting needs. Write your state legislature, governor, and even representatives from Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming especially!
As ongoing wolf advocates, we must not give up and continue the fight!
Using the word “HARVEST” in reference to the “Murdering of Wolves” is one of the most disgusting word choices a ridiculous human mouth has ever spoken..
“C’mon you Gun Toting Blood Thirsty Barbarian Cowards! Go Hunt yerselfs a few Red-Neck Sister Lovers!” Do the normal world some favors! These RNMF’S won’t be missed by anyone sane!