by the Associated Press
Law enforcement will take action if northern Idaho residents take the advice of a failed gubernatorial candidate and start illegally killing wolves, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official said.
“I think it’s pretty clear to say that if there’s a federal law that is violated, then the federal law will have to be engaged,” Meggan Laxalt Mackey, an external affairs specialist with the agency, told the Lewiston Tribune.
Rex Rammell told a crowd of more than 100 Wednesday night in Idaho County that residents should organize a hunt and start killing wolves, saying he didn’t think local, state and federal authorities would interfere.
Mackey disagreed.
“Federal law enforcement officials will have to act,” she said. “However, there’s not a lot we can do right now. No illegal activity has happened. But in any state, including Idaho, federal law enforcement officials and state law enforcement officials and anybody who has to represent and uphold the law will be working together very closely.”
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