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IEF is jointly presenting the upcoming City Club event "After the Hunt: Wolf Management in Idaho" on August 30th. As a recipient of this email, you qualify as an IEF member and are eligible to attend for the City Club member rate of $16. When you register with City Club for the event (instructions are at the bottom of this message), just specify that you are an IEF member and ask for the City Club member rate. Attendance may be greater than originally expected because of the recent ruling by Judge Molloy that put the wolves back under protection, so register early if you want a seat.
City Club of Boise and Idaho Environmental Forum present
“After the Hunt: Wolf Management in Idaho”
Cal Groen, Director, Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Jon Rachael, State Wildlife Manager, Idaho Department of Fish & Game
Monday, August 30, 2010
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. The Grove Hotel, Boise
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Just as the Idaho Department of Fish and Game was gearing up for the second season of wolf hunting, a federal judge ruled Aug. 5 that gray wolves should not have been taken off the endangered species list. The agency has halted the Idaho hunting season and is giving refunds to hunters who bought tags. Meanwhile, controversy continues: Some hunters complain that wolves are reducing elk and deer herds; in May, wolves killed sheep in the Boise Foothills. We’ll explore the issue, as we hear from the director of Idaho Fish & Game and his chief wildlife manager. They’ll talk about how the latest ruling will affect wolf management, and answer audience questions about managing gray wolves in an ever-changing ecological and political landscape.
Cal Groen became the director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game in January 2007. He served nine years as supervisor of the IDFG Clearwater Region, six years as IDFG Natural Resources Policy Bureay chief and as an assistant director at Washington and Kansas wildlife agencies.
Jon Rachael began working with wolves as a graduate project at the University of Montana in 1988. He has worked for IDFG since 1992 and helped write the Idaho portion of the EIS that re-introduced wolves into Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1995. He supervises the management programs for all game species, including elk, deer and gray wolves.
Forum chair: Dick Gardner
Forum moderator: Marcia Franklin
Reservation deadline: Thursday, August 26 at noon.
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