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FWP-backed bill would reclassify gray wolves as furbearers; supporters and opponents spar over management
Summary
Representative Jamie Eiseley introduced House Bill 101, an FWP agency bill to reclassify gray wolves as furbearers, saying the change would bring “consistency on harvest opportunities and restrictions” and clean up statute.
Representative Jamie Eiseley, sponsor of House Bill 101, opened the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee hearing by saying the agency asked her to sponsor a bill “generally revising laws related to gray wolves and furbearers.” She called it “a major cleanup bill” aimed at consistency in harvest opportunities, restrictions and enforcement.
Quentin Kujala, chief of conservation policy for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), told the committee the department supports HB101 and described what the bill would change: classify wolves as furbearers, maintain nonresident trapping opportunities without reciprocity, prohibit fur farming of wolves, prohibit hunting from a public highway and the use of motion‑sensing devices, and…
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