Posted on 02/28/2010 11:57:50 PM PST by OneVike
Go to http://www.lobowatch.com/WolvesNearYou.html to read the full story of this adult mountain lion killed by wolves in Idaho. The wrecking ball is out and wiping out everything in its path. Time to wake up to what uncontrolled wolf populations are doing in the lower 48 people.
Ear Tag identifies Lion as an adult relocated by Idaho Fish and Game earlier in the year.
Look in the background and you will see the residential community of Parker Idaho. Only 1/4 mile from the cougar kill site.
Audience members at a meeting called by Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich saw many pictures of wildlife in the city, including this cougar that was killed by wolves. Willich is concerned about predators within city limits.(ARIEL HANSEN/Times-News)
SUN VALLEY A large audience Wednesday heard Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich do some howling about community concerns of wildlife within city limits.
Willich called for the Wood River Elk Trust II to quickly come up with a plan to feed elk on a ridge above the Elkhorn neighborhood of Sun Valley next winter, hoping they wont then attract predators into the city.
The elk have not been fed by an organized group in three years, and last year wolves hunted them as they wandered through town. The wolves have not been present in the city this winter, which is attributed to the wolf hunting season launched last year.
Following a self-described lecture about the wildlife situation in Sun Valley, Willich took questions, but refused to take comments, on his proposal to have the elk trust present its plan to the Sun Valley City Council in two weeks.
Im finished with these town hall meetings, were moving to a solution, Willich said. The time for discussion is over.
He said if the elk trust cant resume feeding, or if the council fails to approve a resolution in support of their feeding, he will demand that Idaho Department of Fish and Game be more proactive. Several Fish and Game agents were in the audience.
Well put you on notice that whenever theres a predator around, you need to use whatever techniques to get the predators out of town, Willich said, calling Sun Valley a no-predator zone.
Fish and Game Regional Supervisor Jerome Hansen said thats already the departments policy.
Weve got a document specifically developed to deal with urban large-animal conflicts. This is all about public safety, he said. Our guys are Johnny-on-the-spot.
The departments policy is to avoid feeding programs whenever possible, although they maintain feeding sites in other areas of the state, including nearby Warm Springs.
Their plan to start up a feeding program (in Elkhorn) is an easy short-term solution, maybe, but I dont think its the long-term solution, Hansen said. It takes a while (for the elk) to develop new patterns. It takes longer than weve had.
He said he would prefer to find other solutions to keep the elk out of town, such as reducing the size of the herd and enhancing habitat in areas to attract the elk to areas not as close to homes, such as Parker and Independence gulches.
Willich said the City Council will take comments on March 11 on the elk trusts plan. He said the council would likely offer moral, not monetary, support for a feeding plan.
The Great White Hunter's site to read more about what he is doing and how you can help to stop the madness.
I did but I'm not buying it......
OK, I read it thru this time and it appears you are right. The pics don't do the story justice though.......
But they have to go out to feed -— and then the wolves will howl...
Feral dogs appear to be much more dangerous than wolves.
My first dog was the best all around, extremely versatile, he would tree squirrels, chase and catch rabbits, herd cattle, swine, goats or sheep and a long list of other abilities. He was half Collie (not Border Collie) and half German Shepherd. I just had to bury a thirteen year old Border Collie and she was amazingly smart but I don’t know if she would ever have done all those things.
Interesing. I thought man was the only animal which killed for the sake of killing. Do you know of any other animals behaving in this way?
The cougar was competition for the wolves. Anything else is speculation.
Can't argue with that
I agree the pics don’t do the story justice. Hard to tell but I’ve seen numerous other stories where the wolves disembowel their prey first.
‘Interesing. I thought man was the only animal which killed for the sake of killing. Do you know of any other animals behaving in this way?”
Killer whales for one
There’s a reason there used to be a bounty on wolves in the lower 48. I wonder how many ranchers will be ruined and people killed before the bounty is returned.
Is wolf tasty, or would we have to export the meat to China?
Wolf packs will kill anything...even each other.
Table 1: Characteristics per individual camp |
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Characteristics | Range 1998 | Range 1999 | Range 2000 | Average 1998 | Average 1999 | Average 2000 |
Sheep | 50-1,200 | 22-1,200 | 100-1,000 | 530 | 407 | 468 |
Total losses | 0-33 | 0-49 | 0-16 | 8.6 | 9.2 | 2.9 |
Losses to wolves | 0-32 | 0-31 | 0-16 | 7.0 | 3.4 | 1.8 |
Losses to bears | 0-11 | 0-26 | 0-5 | 1.6 | 5.8 | 1.1 |
Number of guarding dogs | 2-14 | 4-17 | 3-13 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
Number of shepherds | 2-9 | 3-15 | 2-12 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
that looks to me like the same mountain lion that threatened Kim in season 2 of 24.
Thanks. Maybe after work or it will wait till my day off later in the week.
So what does Romania have to do with the USA?
This gives an example of the possibility to live with wolves. The density of wolves in Romania is many times higher than the density in the US, besides the European wolves are more aggressive than the ones in the US. QED.
A wolf taking down a cougar seems pretty aggressive to me.
Other than the Romanians' world class example of term limits on Nicolae and Elena, I don't know why we would want to model our nation after theirs.
This wolf was found just out of Edson , Alberta .. Edson is just east of where
many of our Yellowstone wolves came ( not sure what ‘found’ means.)
Hi… I live in Buck lake Alberta Canada…. 20 min from Drayton Valley where the big wolf was shot… I found more photos of it and its said to weighed 197 pounds… The hunters were said to been baiting bear and the wolf chased off a large bear… we had a malamute husky that was this big.. as big as this wolf… the tracks are from a wolf that been eating our cows 2 or 3 a week… Im sure if we fed our husky a large calf every couple days he would of been larger than the wolf…
remember the camera angle can make things look bigger… like a hunter sitting behind a elk… makes the elk look bigger… believe it or not my brother who weighed 190 pounds grabbed my cousin who weighed 250 pounds and bench pressed him off the ceiling, he worked the service rigs… any man can easily lift a 200 pound wolf like these men are…
Ive seen the wolfs twice that have been taking down the cows and they look large to me… wolf hunter are welcome… happy hunting
More like Ranchers 1, Eco-nuts 3923
Isn't a pack of good hunting dogs able to do the same thing?
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