This sort of thing makes my head hurt and heart ache...how stupid can these people be? Fat dumb and happy Starbucks Mental ward candidates now wish to decimate game animals in the West so they can feel better about the state of the wild?
Madness.
Agreed...The enviros say wolves are a part of the eco system but with the numbers of humans in the lower 48 they are not needed and that system has gotten along just fine without them for 70 or 80 years.
I wonder if anyone has thought to reduced the quota of deer to be harvested (via hunting permits) to compensate for the wolf kills? I have a suspicion the answer is no.
Dogs can increase in population extremely fast when food is not a limitation. 15 breeding pairs? Gimme a break. The rate canines reproduce there’s no way to know when that number is surpassed or when numbers are brought down to that level.
15 breeding pairs can theoretically produce 120 pups per year which is potentially another 60 breeding pairs PER YEAR added to the wilderness if the food sources hold up and there’s no predation or hunting of wolves and no infant mortality.
Figure we start with 15 young breeding pairs with no offspring. A wolf pack consists of a mother and a father and the offspring(which leave to start their own packs around age 4). figure an average of 4 pups per litter that survive to adulthood. By year 4, each breeding pair has 16 “children”, 4 of which are ready to leave home. That means every breeding pair is churning out 2 breeding pairs per year once the ball gets rolling by the 4th year