BOISE -- More than 50 people attended a session in Boise to discuss Idaho's proposed plan to manage its 800 wolves, once Endangered Species Act protections are lifted from the predators as early as next year.

The plan has been circulating since last month.

It currently calls for hunting wolves in areas where the animals are making a dent in livestock and the state's big game populations of deer and elk.

Last year, wolves killed about 200 sheep.

Jon Rachael, a regional Idaho Department of Fish and Game manager, told the group his agency would focus on where there are conflicts.

Re-introduced in the mid-1990s to Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, wolves have prospered in the northern Rocky Mountains.

Each of the states is gearing up for federal delisting.