The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission plans to at least double the number of gray wolves hunters can kill this year.
The proposed quotas would reduce the state's wolf population between 8 percent and 20 percent from last year's minimum count of 524 wolves, according to state wildlife computer models.
The proposed quotas do not include wolves killed by wildlife officials responding to complaints of attacks on livestock. Some 145 wolves were killed that way in 2009.
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