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‘An abomination’: Idaho hunters earned thousands of dollars to kill newborn wolf pups, records reveal
Wildlife advocates incensed as documents show state paid out $2,000 per kill in effort to shrink state’s wolf populationIdaho officials paid hunters thousands of dollars for killing a dozen newborn wolf pups this spring, including what appears to be at least one full litter killed in or near its den, according to state records shared with the Guardian and Public Domain.The wolf pup killings have incensed wildlife advocates in Idaho, where state wildlife officials have been ordered to take extraordinary measures to shrink the state’s re-introduced wolf population amid complaints from the livest...
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