Here is the AP story from the Casper Star Tribune. By Matthew Brown.
The story got the main point — the 10j changes are designed to get around the legal “problem” of delisting the wolves by treating them on the ground as if they had been legally delisted.
The story did not point out that the new rules would give states the right to kill wolves not just for being a suspect in the population decline of an elk herd, but for any “herd management objectives” (which, by the way it is defined, could mean for any reason the state wildlife departments want).
The only Montana hearing is tonight. Story on tonight’s hearing in Helena. By Eve Byron.