The wolves will do fine. A few more calves will survive spring too. Next, year fewer permits. And in total, it's only six over the target of 200 since the tribes don't use their permits.
More real emotion and outrage expressed by the slaughter of wolves than the death of the migrants.
Those “animal lovers” would quickly change their minds if they had to watch a couple of wolves eat their precious little dog alive...
If they were counting 116 wolves to be culled, why did the state sell more than that of tags to the applicants?
I think they could have had a ‘tag lottery’, as some states do, where the state takes the applications and then draws out the number of animsls to be culled. That way the state decides the number to be culled, and it is upon the skills of the hunter that decides if the number desired is the number culled.
As Native American tribes claimed a quota of 81 wolves, this left 119 for the state-licensed trappers and hunters. Because the tribes consider wolves sacred, they typically use their allotment to protect, not kill, them.
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Or as some one said they sold their permits to non-indians for $US 5,000 each.
***sparking uproar among animal-lovers and conservationists,***
Ever notice that most of the “wolf lovers” all live in big city CONDOS and apartments far away from the damage called by wolves.
Release some wild wolves in the local city parks and see what happens.
A country person living in the hunting area would say...”GOOD JOB HUNTERS!”
I just LOVE stories with happy endings...
Hope the hunt is 120 hours next year!
People upset about the destruction of predators is an uproar.
People upset about men in your daughter’s bathroom at school are bigoted transphobic haters.
Priorities, people.
Proving that there’s just too dang many wolves in that area.
What would we do without the Grauniad (sic) being here to remind us that “native Americans” are “protecting” the wolves, as opposed to those evil, rapacious white hunters who just kill them?
I’ve heard them howl here in N/W Ohio. Must be everywhere...
If they got that many in so short a period of time, there have got to be a bleep-load of them around
I’m outraged, too!!! Why did they stop before they eradicated them? There is a reason that our forefathers wiped out wolf populations and drove the remnant population into the areas far from human interaction.
Let the demons howl. The culling is perfectly legal and needed despite what the muvers erfers think.
50,000,000 human babies slaughtered for no reason. Whatsoever, except for the selfishness of the parents involved In Most cases, and not a peep out of these muver erfers. So spare us the faux outrage muver erfers. We don’t want to hear it
Nobody I know personally, is in an uproar. ;)
All they guys that hunt with Beau were simply amazed that the hunt was over so quickly. Beau had a wolf tag a few years ago but was unsuccessful. He probably won’t have another in his lifetime, now. He rarely leaves a tag unfilled.
And, yes. This also showed the guys that there are a LOT more wolves than the DNR is letting on. They are one of the hardest animals to hunt down and bay up, let alone actually SEE in the field.
And - no dogs were hurt, either. ‘My’ Oneida (Plott Hound) got in on one of the chases, but he kind of weenied out once he saw what he was up against, LOL! And THIS dog has successfully hunted bear for the past two seasons!
“Because the tribes consider wolves sacred”
Road apples. They’re just taking advantage of white guilt.