Idaho wolf hunter receives warning after killing collared wolf

By KBOI Web Staff Published: Feb 10, 2012 at 4:57 PM MDT
Idaho wolf hunter receives warning after killing collared wolf
From left, the alpha female (white-gray in color), a sub-adult wolf, alpha male (black) and a 2011 pup (black) from the Imnaha pack. Image captured on trail camera in Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, in Wallowa County on July 9, 2011.

EMMETT, Idaho - An Idaho hunter with an invalid wolf tag shot and killed a collared male gray wolf from Oregon's northeastern Imnaha pack near Emmett earlier this month, Idaho Fish and Game says.

Mike Keckler, Idaho Fish and Game spokesman says the hunter's Idaho wolf tag was no longer valid when he killed the Oregon wolf, identified as OR-9, Feb. 2.

The hunter's wolf tag was good only through 2011, Keckler said. Fish and Game issued a warning, however, the hunter was not given a citation because he received incorrect information from a store clerk about the tag.

The hunter was told his 2011 tag was OK through the end of the current wolf season.