![]() Endangered Species list in Montana in 2011. Montana’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, and the GOP-controlled Legislature have moved to increase the legal taking of wolves, which were removed from the U.S. The wolves were an adult male and female and have been kept in an evidence freezer at the agency's office in Dillon. Kerry Wahl, a game warden with Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks, said authorities didn't pursue charges against the helicopter pilot that was flying the two men or the company, saying it was the shooters' responsibility for what happened. Neither man had licenses to hunt wolves, and wolf hunting from helicopters is illegal. Tamcke paid a $425 fine and Peterson paid a $435 fine, according to records from the Beaverhead County Justice Court. The men later recovered the carcasses by snowmobile. The Billings Gazette reports that Dalton Thomas Tamcke, 30, and Justin Samuel Peterson, 22, told wildlife authorities they were hunting coyotes for predatory control action on March 3 and mistakenly took the wolves for coyotes. BILLINGS - Two Montana men have been cited over illegally poaching two wolves from a helicopter in the Big Hole Valley.
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