The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes are updating their gray wolf management plan. A public comment period ended last Friday.
Tribal Wildlife Program Manager, Dale Becker, estimates there are about 30 wolves on the Flathead reservation.
Becker says few people commented on the draft management plan this year, but those who did were passionate about it.
"There are some people that are just going to be adamantly opposed to wolves, period," Becker says. "There are some who think they can do no wrong and the rest will be somewhere in the middle. For a lot of people the wolf issue; even though it's hotter than a $2 dollar gun; it's maybe subsided a little bit."
Becker says the tribes hope to get the wolf management plan approved by year's end.