BOISE, Idaho — Officials with the newly-formed board designed to control the growth of Idaho wolf populations is asking lawmakers to maintain its current level of funding.
However, it’s unlikely the board will spend all its money this fiscal year.
Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board Member Carl Rey told legislative budget-writers Tuesday that the board has spent about a third of its $400,000 budget in the first half of fiscal year 2015. During that time, 31 wolves were killed, all of them for livestock depredation.
Rey says the board couldn’t start killing wolves until early August because its members weren’t named until the start of the fiscal year.
He says more wolves tend to be killed in the spring and summer, and that 2014 was a year of abnormally low wolf depredation activity.
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