Live Bait, Ultralight Wolf Hunt Bill Fuels Controversy

The wolf hunt in Idaho could soon be taken to a whole new elevation -- hundreds of feet in the air, to be exact. Sen. Jeff Siddoway (R-Terreton) proposed a bill last week that would allow Idahoans to hunt wolves from ultra-light aircraft and use live bait in traps. As a rancher himself, Siddoway said he's lost several sheep to wolves he hasn't been able to catch. The bill, he said, would make catching those wolves easier. "It's to give us some tools to go after the wolves that we haven't had before," Siddoway said. But not everyone agrees. Ralph Maughan is the president of the Wolf Recovery Foundation and thinks the live bait aspect of the bill is archaic. "It really is a bad bill from our point of view. It takes us back to the 1890s," Maughan said...more