Federal Agents , Kill Wolf Pups , 'Adopted' by Idaho High Schoolers.<br />Conservation groups are outraged <br />after the U.S. Department of Agriculture <br />killed eight young wolves in an Idaho forest.<br />Students at a local high school in Boise had <br />tracked and studied a group of wild wolves,<br />the Timberline pack, since 2003.<br />Local wildlife advocates claim that wolves <br />are "under attack" in the region.<br />Earlier this year, legislation passed in Idaho and Montana that made it easier to hunt and kill wolves.<br />In Idaho, the law now allows hunters to <br />kill an unlimited number of wolves each year, <br />up from a 15-wolf annual limit before.<br />The legislation allows for wolves to be baited <br />with snares, gunned down via aircraft and even <br />run over with motorized vehicles.<br />Environmental groups warn that the depopulation <br />tactics will reduce Idaho's wolf population by 90% <br />from roughly 1,500 to 150.<br />For the past 18 years, the Timberline wolf pack <br />was unofficially "adopted" by students <br />at Boise's Timberline High School.<br />According to the BBC, an official from <br />the Department of Agriculture confirmed <br />that federal agents had killed the animals.<br />Environmental groups have called <br />the wolf culling efforts inhumane.<br />A spokeswoman <br />for the Humane Society <br />of the United States called it, "a death warrant for hundreds <br />of Idaho's iconic and beloved wolves.".<br />Students at Timberline High have said they will write to President Biden urging him to take action to protect local wolf populations. .<br />Students at Timberline High have said they will write to President Biden urging him to take action to protect local wolf populations.
