Idaho is on the board with the first Wolverine Management plan by one of the 50 states..............Of course, Idaho fish and game folks are paranoid that the Feds are about to vote on designating the Wolverine as a TTHREATENED Species which might ultimately lead to designating lands for their protection............Idaho wants to avoid this at all costs and as little to do with the USFW unless it is to take their charity when it comes to having ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS come in to shoot and kill wolves, pumas, coyotes, bears and eagles............Paranoid is a polite description for the Idaho folks who steer the ship on wildlife management there

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TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014

Idaho adopts wolverine management plan

U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist Keith Aubry holds a young female 

wolverine, the first to be captured in a study of the elusive creatures in

 the Pacific Northwest. (Photo courtesy of Washington Department of 

Fish and Wildlife / The Spokesman-Review)

THREATENED SPECIES — The Idaho Fish
and Game Commission last week unanimously
 approved the nation's first state management
plan for sustaining the largest member of the
weasel family.

The Management Plan for the Conservation
 of Wolverines in Idaho(click on this link
to read the full plan), developed by Idaho

 Department of Fish and Game, will guide

 state efforts to conserve and protect the 

wolverine over the next five years.  Idaho 

is one of four western states where 

wolverines 

live. The others are Montana, Wyoming

 and Washington.

Wolverines, which grow to about 40
 pounds, occupy cold, snowy
 mountainous regions of the U.S.  In
 Idaho, the wolverine is classified as
 a protected nongame animal and
Species of Greatest Conservation
Need based on low densities and
 uncertain numbers.

Wolverines in the lower 48 states
 are currently proposed for listing as
 threatened under the Endangered Species
 Act, in part because of projected loss of
 snow habitat from climate change.  Idaho
 Fish and Game Commissioners approved
the plan as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
officials deliberate a final listing decision
on wolverines, anticipated in early August.

Fish and Game Commissioner Will Naillon
of Challis represents the Salmon Region, a
wolverine stronghold in Idaho. He sees the
 plan benefiting not only wolverines, but a
broad spectrum of constituents.

“The development of this plan for wolverines,
 a protected nongame species, may help to
avert a federal listing and subsequent land
use restrictions. This plan benefits all land
users, including sportsmen and women.”
said Naillon.