Arcane Werewolf, wishing the Hunters who support this stupidity with trouble is a waste of time and effort.
I hunt. Just lilke the 'cousins', I stalk, sneak and when evereything's right; I kill. I kill to eat, and to get the skins for the leather. I respect my prey, and thank the spirit of the slain animal for the food I will eat and the skins I will have tanned. I always leave as much as economically possible for my 'cousins', the real wolves.
As a result, I have never had a bit of trouble with them. It isn't magic: Wolves have very sophisticated senses and if you fit in with what they consider as "right", they'll leave you alone.
Like I said in an earlier post, I've passed as close as ten feet from a Wolf, a big gray male; and me with a big drag of meat and hide. We looked at each other, and he "whuffed" and continued to the remainders I had left for him and his people. I passed four other wolves as they went to the carcass, and not a one of them worried me even a little...there was mutual respect on both sides.
Most of the "hunters" that were supporting this fool were likely the ones that consider limits and seasons an annoyance and take what they want when they want. No real hunter would applaud this action; we
know what Wolves do for us! They take the ones that we wouldn't want: the sick, the old, the young that can't keep up: all Elk that would weaken the genetic lines of the Elk herds and produce inferior prey-animals.
THis man is a politician of the classical type: make the people happy and never mind what happens because of it. He's the classic Roman "Bread and Circuses" politico; buying his way to power by wooing the mob; not by leading and making the hard decisions that need to be made.
Because of my name (I'm a Wolf in name, literally) and because of family interests, I've become somewhat a Wolf-nut, with pictures, sculptures, and even CD's of Wolf Songs. I've studied these incredible people, and consider them to be as "civilised" as any chimpanzee, any day of the week.
I can gaurantee you that you will see the same coterie of "hunters" cheering him on at every chance (the good old boys) but you won't see the majority of Hunters there.
Here's something to do: The State of Idaho has a presence on the Web, with a "Letters" section. Write: not flaming rhetoric, but simple reasons as to why this is a bad idea. Write to all the agencies, both Federal and State, that are involved, and state your opposition to this insane scheme.
Make a noise, and get your friends to make noise, too. Remember, each letter represents as many as five hundred people who don't write. The more letters, from the more people; can make a difference.
We can protect the cousins if we use the system. Bucking it won't help them or us.
And know that the majority of Hunters are as nauseated at this as you are.
*Grabs my standard hunting weapons, RPGs, Flamethrower, M60, M4, Thompson, Colt Python, Desert Eagle, Shotgun) Lets Hunt some Idiots (If I was King or president I would make Idiots be certified and make it legal to hunt them down, another law anyone who slaughters an animal for fun will themselves have their right to live revoked 
i like your style of thinking hun 
