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Posted: 11:03 AM- LEWISTON, Idaho - Idaho voters will not have a chance to vote wolves out of the state in November.
Organizers of a petitions drive to put a wolf removal initiative on the ballot say they failed to collect enough signatures by the May 1 deadline.
Ron Gillett, founder of the Idaho Anti Wolf Coalition, says the effort fell about 10,000 signatures short of the 45,000 needed. The group, which believes wolves are devastating to elk and deer herds, failed to get a similar measure on the ballot two years ago.
Gillett says momentum fizzled after wolves were removed from federal Endangered Species protections, clearing the way for public hunting of the predator.
In March, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted wolves roaming in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
