Posted on 03/11/2010 7:19:47 PM PST by ASOC
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An autopsy conducted Thursday shows that wolves likely killed an itinerant teacher in the southwest Alaska village of Chignik Lake, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
Village residents found the body of Candice Berner, 32, a short distance from town on Monday.
Multiple injuries due to animal mauling caused Berner's death, trooper Col. Audie Holloway said, referencing a report from the state medical examiner's office.
Even a non hunter (grocery store dependent) living in the semi wild and rural rugged PNW coast
gets it now.
Chasing a pack of wolves to thin the herd on horseback would not work.
Or in Jeeps.
I have not lived in truly pure rugged wild country.
But I think our Mounted Posse is pretty cool.
: )
Didnt they use helicoptors?
Dont forget insects and worms that will start to feed on ya if you lay helpless and wounded too long.
Not trying to be sarc...just the way nature recycles.
My Labs are interesting to watch in and around the property as well.
But my Doxie is like a CAT scan.
Wasnt there a Canadian up and coming Singer (folk) that got ate up by some wild animals a few months back while out taking a walk by herself?
I am sure there was a thread here.
Debating what type of predator got to her wolf vs. coyote or something to that affect.
Back a few years ago I was hiking with women up the mountain here and then decided to go alone for a more peacefull slow paced hike.
The Ladies let me have it, as in you big dummy dont ever go up there alone there are elkherds/coyote/mountainlion/bucks/bear....
oh. (dummy)
Uh yeah not a good idea.
Is wolf fur/hide usable?
A mere small snack to the pack.
I should clarify CAT scan as in the diagnostic medical device.
It can be.Wolf hair makes good trim in some cases.I have wolf hair on one of my parkas. When I shot a moose in my back yard in the dead of winter years ago and was my first attempt at butchering I found out real quick how hard it was cutting the hide with its very thick hair count, it was like cutting a short thick pile rug with a kitchen knife.
Planes I think, but that technicality doesnt really matter much, it was the right thing to do to hunt these predators by air. Once again Sarah Palin proved right.
Not sure we shouldnt use the same method to hint down Envirowhacko’s , Of course I dont mean that, but they sure are damagaing our country more than the cause they espouse.
Somewhere, in my gigabytes of stored stuff, I have a paper that examines why wolf attacks are more common in Russia than in the Canadian/US area.
The researchers concluded that it was due to the rarity of individual firearms ownership in the USSR era (70+ years) that contributed to the much bolder behavior and predation by wolves in Russia. In the US/Canada, most wolves have had a fear of man bred into them - contact with man => death by gun.
Thanks to the tofu-nibblers, they’re starting to lose that fear in the US.
Interestingly, I’ve never had that happen!
Fatal wolf attacks on human are pretty scarce - I suspect that is because that most human in wolf territory are:
Situationally aware
armed
in groups of two or more
armed.
Even when we go RVing in ‘developed’ areas here, I alsways carry a 45ACP or 12 GA. Not only bears, as you have pointed out, ‘yotes and now, wolves have become an issue.
As if the asshats in DC aren't enuf aggravation.
10mm Glock, hi cap mag, my own reloads.
I live in Alaska.
I had a simular thought run through my mind but it was more in the barberic idea of tossing those condemned to death from the planes to the wolves.
(it was a quickly fleeting thought no intention meant)
Canadian Singer Taylor Mitchell Dies After Brutal Coyote Attack : EcoLocalizer
LOL
45ACP, 230 gr HP and 2 spare 8 rd mags.
DOn’t leave home without it....
Things knit with “dog hair” are significantly warmer than the same object made of wool. I have no doubt that this would also be true of things made from Alaskan wolf...
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