Wolf Hunting Idaho

During 2012, biologists counted 83 resident wolf packs with a minimum of 732 wolves in Idaho. Packs number five to 15 wolves and may split into smaller groups to hunt. Home ranges for wolf packs are typically 250 to 400 square miles.Wolves typically travel along roads, trails and ridgelines and can travel 20 to 40 miles in a day. Wolves will defend their home range from other wolves and other canines, including domestic dogs.

At publication time, wolves were scheduled to be removed from federal protection under the Endangered Species Act on March 28. Idaho has adopted a Wolf Population Management Plan, which outlines how populations will be managed through hunting. A wolf hunting season and rules brochure will be published in July separately from this brochure. If delisting is delayed, wolves in Idaho south of Interstate 90 will continue to be managed under more flexible rules called 10(j), revised February 27, 2008. Any person legally present on private or public land, except land administered by the National Park Service, may immediately take a wolf that is in the act of attacking the individual’s stock animal, such as horse, mule, donkey, llama, or goat used to transport people or possessions, or dog, provided that there is no evidence of intentional baiting, feeding or deliberate attractants of wolves. For more info visit: http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/hunt/rules/bg/