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In May 2009, the gray wolf was taken off the list of endangered species for the Northern Rocky Mountain region, and debates between hunting advocates and wolf sympathizers raged in the months leading up to the start of hunting on the first of September. Shortly after the sun rose that morning, Millage, a real estate agent from northern Idaho, shot the historic wolf. Within a few hours, he started getting angry calls — followed by angrier e-mails and Craigslist threats that included directions to his house — from people who found his contact information on his agency’s website after reading his name in the news. “They didn’t want to talk. They just wanted to yell,” Millage says. [(See pictures of animal attacks on humans.)](http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1968182,00.html) Wolves are divisive animals. To some, they are livestock-ravaging, child-endangering 120-lb. (55 kg) beasts that should be controlled through state-sanctioned hunting. Others believe they majestically embody nature in an almost spiritual way, and for this group, killing wolves seems one step away from offing Fido. “The big-bad-wolf thinking is not in line with what we understand about wolves and the ecosystem,” says Mary Beth Petersen, a Minnesota attorney who e-mailed Millage after seeing a photo of him kneeling with his rifle over the wolf. But by the time hunting season ended on March 31, Millage’s kill had led to extended legal protection not for the gray wolf but for another species: the Idahoan hunter. Laws prohibiting “hunter harassment” have been passed in all 50 states, having proliferated at the behest of sportsmen organizations from 1982 to 1995\. (In 1994 a similar restriction was added to the federal criminal code.) Many of these laws ban the use of physical conduct to impede a lawful hunt, such as banging pots and pans to scare off prey or taking a blowtorch to a hunter’s crossbow. But other provisions have sparked outrage over First Amendment rights and have subsequently been struck down by judges for hindering hunting opponents’ freedom of speech. [(See the top 10 animal stories of 2009.)](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379%5F1944230,00.html) Idaho is one of several states dealing with hunter harassment, an issue that manifests itself in unique forms across the U.S. “Harassment is a problem,” says Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association (NRA). “And what we’re trying to do is make sure it isn’t a problem. We’re always trying to preserve the safety of hunters.” The bill that recently passed both houses in Idaho — and was then signed by Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter on April 8 — extends hunter protections in two ways: by taking state-issued hunting permits, licenses and tags out of the public domain, and by making it illegal to “harass, intimidate or threaten” hunters via telephone, e-mail or website posting. (Proponents, wise to the past, added the caveat that unlawful conduct does not include constitutionally protected activity.) [(See the top 10 everything of 2009.)](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1945379,00.html) Debate about whether to remove hunting permits from the public record is reminiscent of the battle over making concealed-carry permits private, an effort that has been increasingly successful in the past few years. Supporters of such a public-records exemption say there’s no reason the general public needs access to information about citizens who are simply exercising legal rights. “There are no downsides,” says Idaho state representative Judy Boyle, a Republican who proposed the measure. If a hunter seems to be doing something wrong, she says, let the police investigate: “We’re not vigilante people,” she says. Millage, who, as a way to combat his harassment, posted on a website the vitriolic missives he received, takes the same line: “There’s no reason for all the names to be handed out … It’s all about intimidation. \[People say\] it’s not for harassment, but what other purpose does it serve?” [See the best pictures of 2009.](http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1946595,00.html) [See 25 people who mattered in 2009.](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375%5F1946333,00.html) Government watchdogs, meanwhile, worry that taking away forms of oversight, even when there isn’t a pressing need for it, sets a dangerous precedent. “We’re taking another piece \[of information\] in order to stroke and soothe one small segment of society,” says Charles Davis, executive director for the National Freedom of Information Coalition. “And if you do that over and over again, guess what’s going to happen to public information at the end of the day? There’s not going to be any.” The conflict in Idaho escalated in January, when Rick Hobson, a local activist, made a public-records request for the names of hunters who had killed wolves during the season, then posted all 122 on a website and took out an ad in the _Idaho Statesman_ directing people to the list. “There’s a small local group of hunters who feel that they and only they have a right to decide what happens to wildlife on state and federal land,” he says. “I posted the list to remind them that it’s a public process, that hunting is not a right, it’s a privilege.” [(See the top 10 green ideas of 2009.)](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379%5F1944307,00.html) That posting brought Hobson his own barrage of hate mail and threats, in part because the list included the name of a 12-year-old boy. Boyle says Hobson’s use of the information “played right into the reasoning” for making the records exempt while members debated the bill. Other states are trying to protect hunters from different forms of harassment. A Virginia bill aimed at keeping activists from strategically (and sometimes dangerously) using food to interfere with waterfowl hunting is set to become law on April 13\. In that state, it’s illegal to lure birds with bait, and there have been reports of activists littering hunting spots with food — sometimes from boats in front of shooters’ blinds — so that any birds that showed up would be off-limits. The measure, proposed by state delegate Scott Lingamfelter, was passed unanimously by both houses. [(See the top 10 animal stories of 2008.)](http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948%5F1864552,00.html) In Wisconsin, where reports of hunter harassment more than tripled during last year’s deer season, territorial landowners have clashed repeatedly with hunters, and hunters have clashed among themselves. Such reports are especially alarming in a state where there have been two fatal hunter shootings, leaving seven dead, within the past decade, says chief conservation warden Randy Stark. The increased number of reports is still minuscule in Wisconsin — there were only 15 harassment cases among 600,000 hunters — but each is treated as a potential tragedy. “Although there’s few of them, it only takes one for there to be a bad outcome,” says Stark. “No good can come from an emotional conflict between two armed people.” The fear of hunter-harassment clashes turning deadly is often what gains them attention, despite how rare they are among the millions of hunters who go out into the field each year. In Idaho’s case, that fear has been compounded by years of tension over wolf reintroduction, as the unpopular animals were placed in Idaho by the federal government against the state’s will, and by uncertainty about what it could mean to start shrouding hunters in anonymity. “Licensure has always been public, with good reason,” Davis says. “Because it’s a privilege you’re asking the state for, and privileges can be used for all sorts of nefarious purposes.” [See the Pictures of the Week.](http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [See the Cartoons of the Week.](http://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6915950/wolf-wars-a-new-move-to-ban-hunter-harassment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6915950/wolf-wars-a-new-move-to-ban-hunter-harassment/"},"headline":"Wolf Wars: A New Move to Ban Hunter Harassment","datePublished":"2010-04-12T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T14:23:32.536Z","description":"For Robert Millage, killing the first wolf in Idaho's inaugural hunt was a dubious honor. 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