[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.

[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.