Wow. Just absolutely mesmerizing. I’ve had some very unique wildlife encounters in my life, one like that would have to be up there with the best. Though meeting a full herd of wild elk in the woods in a might safer than these critters.
This is one of the great Leftist boondoggles ever.
These wolves aren’t even native to the area.
There had always been some native wolves around Yellowstone, and for some distance north, east and west.
The importation of these much larger and more aggressive Canadian wolves have put an end not only to the native wolves, but also to wild elk herds by the thousand.
The idea of transferring the big large-pack Canadian wolves into the area was accomplished under the guise of a surplus of elk throughout the area.
That was probably the case, yet it could have been handled by changing hunting seasons, offering more tags, that kind of thing.
But the enviros wanted to use the imported wolves to put an end to hunting, guided hunts, and ranching and other livestock management in general.
The wolves run in large packs, they kill for sport, they have slashed the size and health of elk herds in the area, simply because they never cease to kill.
They will run elk to death on the flat, herd them into snowy valleys where the elk founder, and are torn to bits, they will chase elk herds up and down out of small deeper valleys until the elk simply drop dead from panicked exertion.
They will bring down elk for sport, then maybe eat the fetuses out of the pregnant cows. They will drag down royal bulk elk, eat away part of the hindquarters and leave the rest to die.
What has happened to the great Yellowstone elk herds is but a latter-day shame on the order of the slaughter of 19th century bison herds.
Don’t be fooled by the goo-goo-eyed park officials and the usual (wealthy, West Coast transplant) suspects who support anything that will hurt hard-working families on the land.
This has been a travesty. Here’s an final small example: This past fall foolish tourists were (as usual) getting too close to bison, bear, elk with calves and so on.
But something was different about the attacks involving elk. Turns out the elk were taking cover near the Park buildings, because there are enough people around to keep the wolves away.
Tourists were being charged and sometimes flattened by elk cows, for no apparent reason, it seemed-—and that’s how the complicit media covered it.
What was really happening was that the elk cows were leaving their calves in the tall grass around the Park buildings, then were going off a ways to graze on their own, and later coming back to find their calves-—who sometimes had been stumbled upon by foolish, wide-eyed tourists who had no idea there was even a mama elk in the picture.
Well, there was, and they were eager to unmesmerize the tourists.
The elk hanging near the buildings was highly unusual, and was portrayed as a great gift to fawning (so to speak) tourists...when actually the elk were simply hanging about with the tourists, the best and easiest ways to avoid the hunting packs of wolves.