On Thursday, wildlife officials of Montana stated that they want to keep current wolf hunting rules in place for the future hunting and trapping season. The officials said they have idea that many have hit the right formula in how to manage the predators.

John Vore of the game management bureau chief for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, told commissioners of Fish and Wildlife that the agency had made a plan that will keep balance between keeping a thriving wolf population and ensuring that the number of wolves do not get too high.

In past when the population of wolf rose, the officials of Fish, Wildlife and Parks tried a number of season dates, quotas and some other regulations to reduce the population of the predators. The agency has eliminated quotas across Montana excluding the areas adjacent to Yellowstone and Glacier national parks. In addition, the agency also extended the length of the season.

During the season that ended in March, the hunters killed and trapped about 206 wolves, while the landowners managed to kill six wolves. After the season, the population of wolf in the stated declined about 12% to about 554 predators.

Now, the wildlife officials have decided to keep the current wolf hunting rules in place in 2015. The suggestion by the officials included keeping the same hunting and trapping regulations and also a statewide limit of 100 wolves that can be killed by landowners.

According to a wolf advocacy group, it is good that the state is not proposing to erode protections further. Jonathan Proctor, the director of Defenders of Wildlife’s Rockies and Plains program, said, “We would like to see them treated just like other wildlife, not treated to special persecution. Wolves are an important part of the environment and should be managed as such. Other predators are managed at far greater numbers”.