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WE have alot of wolves here along the yukon; and everyone is glad to live in country with wolves. They also all want intensive ariel wolf control so they don't get out of hand. Any farmer in America understands this better than all the I wanna kiss the wolves people put together. True balance of nature exists only when the land supports 10% of both ungulates & wolves; rather than the 5 fold increase of game numbers that game management permits. Without wolf control, might as well tell the hunters to sell their guns and quit hunting.

Been quite a few cases of wolves attacking people up here in Alaska. 2 years back a 10 year old was drug by his head from his back yard by a 110 lb yearling. Personally know many people that have had their dogs ate on the chain in their yards by wolves. Twice over the years I had to run out on porch after dark and unload 30 rounders from ar into brush behind my dog lot; then the wolves didn't come back. They get hungry in winter you know. Also have had wolves follow my dogteam on trails, but jump off trail when they saw me coming back thru.

Wolves mostly stay away from people. Go down river 20 miles and the bank is covered with tracks though. We had a young black pup hanging around the house last sept. Hadn't joined up with a pack and was stupid and awful lonely. I'd see him on road in morning and dusk; sitting on the road; picking off neighbors cats. Wasn't 75 lbs and a few times walked up my lane and looked my dogteam over. They wanted to kill him and he was too scared to even get close to them. I didn't have it in me to shoot him, but if there had been an adult would have shot them all if I could. Anyway, after a month, he moved on.

Bottom line is old wolf quickly out grows his place in the scheme of things and hunters and ranchers will be the ones that suffer. Maybe that's what the true balance of nature dictates. With that logic we should also send 90% of the people that live in urban America to death camps to resolve the imbalance of nature there also. Balance of nature is lunacy in the world we live in.

Well, you have just said what I believe. I think. God meant for all of us, man and animal, to live on this earth together. We each have our place here and if one dies out, we all suffer.

I did not know that wolves would attack humans. There must not be enough game for them up there. You mentioned that they get hungry. What has happened to the wildlife?

Forgive me, but I am one of those "I wanna kiss the wolves" people. My Malamute/Husky/Lab mix reminds me of a wolf and I kiss him all the time. He kisses me back, too. LOL!

"Wolves mostly stay away from people."

So I thought also, until a friend up in Edmonton loaned me his snowmobile to take a jaunt in the country a few miles north of town.

I happened to glance back and saw one of those Canadian wolves, that they are importing into Yellowstone, loping along behind me.

I kept looking back and a minute later there were three of them! Since Canada refuses to allow you proper defense against these critters, I cut my tour way short.

I would love to have left some of those wolf-lovers there on that trail and see how they fared.