New method may provide better wolf estimates

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials have been working with the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Montana for the last few years to develop a "patch occupancy modeling" for wolves, a method that relies heavily on an annual hunter survey.

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This sounds more to favor hunting than it does for wolves.

I don't think asking Hunters to count is at all the "best available science"?  Afterall, how many of them shoot a Wolf and say "I thought it was a coyote?"

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