An Idaho hunter lifts the carcass of OR-9, one of Oregon's 29 documented wolves, which had crossed the state line into Idaho.
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has offered to send Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber 150 wolves, saying his own state has a few of the predators to spare.
Monday’s offer came in a tongue-in-cheek letter where Otter sarcastically apologized to Kitzhaber after an Idaho hunter killed a wolf from an Oregon pack that strayed across Idaho’s border to the east.
On Feb. 2, the Idaho hunter killed a brother of an Oregon wolf that became a celebrity by wandering hundreds of miles into Northern California seeking a mate.
Otter, no fan of the mid-1990s wolf reintroduction to central Idaho, offered Kitzhaber “my sincerest apologies.”
Then, Otter said he’d have the Idaho Fish and Game Department round up another 150 wolves — or any number Kitzhaber needed or was willing to take.
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