Wolves creating more headaches (Realistic article on wolf reintroduction)

The Jamestown Sun ^ | February 12, 2010 | Bernie Kuntz

[jazusamo]

Thanks, I hear you and good for Sarah Palin.

That thinning I was talking about in that post was for the elk that the NPS won’t let hunters in to hunt. I know it’s a problem thinning wolves because they get gun shy in a hurry. I personally think the states should treat wolves as they do coyotes, open season year round and no tags required, that’d keep them in check in the lower 48.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, I read about that. It’s amazing how most came right back, I guess they get accustomed to their environment.

[Eska]

We can shoot wolves whenever here in Alaska; and still their numbers have rocketed skyward. In most rural areas, the wolves have the moose about extinct. I know many watersheds where the wolves have cleaned out every last moose.

The rule of thumb by F&G up here is every single wolf takes 6 moose every year. We have 15,000 to 20,000 in Ak; 100,000 moose every year; then start thinking about the caribou & sheep. In Sweden they harvest 250,000 moose/year, only have 2-3 small packs way up north and the people up there want them ones killed off. We don't harvest 50,000 moose in Ak, dang wolves have alot to do with it too.

You'll see small packs of 4-5 wolves explode to 30 animals; then elk pops will collapse down your way. Got to keep them under control, very hard to achieve.

[jazusamo]

I believe every word of that and ID, WY and MT are starting to find that out. Wolves are just beginning to establish themselves in WA and OR, it’s a shame they can’t be stopped now while it would be easy.

Every time I read another article about lower numbers of wildlife and livestock predation by wolves I shake my head.

The enviros scream and yell and reach a little deeper in their pockets for money they’ve ripped off from people with their sham slogans and money drives to file another one or two or ten lawsuits.

They have sympathetic federal judges that consider themselves experts when in fact they’re enviro nazis themselves. Those judges and the enviro nuts will have large pops of wolves they can go out and view every year or two while the people who live there have to deal with them daily. It’s criminal, IMO.