Wolves stay away from people as much as they can, unless they are hungry. We always have young (this years pups) hang around in late august. They have been kicked out and haven’t packed up yet and look for easy pickins around people; cats, snowshoes, small loose dogs ect. I actually like seeing them as they don’t fear people yet. Have had them walk right up our lane and look at our dogteam, who would kill them quick if they could break chains. My son calls them in with quealer at school bus stop. They are nice to see for a couple weeks but soon gone.
Wolves will come in and kill dogs when they can. Every wolf kills 6 moose/year for every moose killed by a hunter and we have 20-30 thou wolves up here in ak.
WE have grizz & blk bear but most grizz stay up above treeline, come down now and then. Grizz take 85% moose calf production every june, moose are hurtin bad, almosr extinct in many areas. wolves get them in deep snow, grizz get the calves come spring. You don’t want grizz where you live, elk pops will quickly drop to 10% of what they were and stagnate, balance of nature thing.
They have started ariel wolf control but its not really all that effective, bounties work better; many areas are so thick, wolves stay in brush. You can’t shoot thru trees with 12 guage. We now can bait grizz in with fish, dripping buckets in trees, ect; but people don’t like eating grizz so no motivation. State needs to allow selling of bear parts, problem would solve itself.
I have had wolves follow my dogteam then when they get close, jump off trail and take off away; something about following smell of dogteam. I know people who have had wolves threaten them until they fired off pistol then they all took off.
People here shoot every bear that comes close and second time they show up around house. Blk & grizz alike. Most blk bear run up here too but I have had 2 blk bear sneak in on me (front quarters down) crouched down like a cat sneaking in on rabbit; ears twittlin back and forth like crazy. First time I waved arms and yelled (no gun) and bear took off. Second time I was along a trail and bear stalked me along trail; shot that one. Blk bear stalking people is quite common actually, at least to rural people.
I just go anywhere without my 460 S&W or a rifle. Bear are looked on as dangerous pests and its everyones patriotic duty to shoot every wolf they see, anyway they are worth 3-4 hundred to tourists. You hear them alot in winter, see alot of tracks, but actually only see wolves maybe once in awhile. Only time I have seen lots of wolves is during caribou migration, cause some packs follow them.
That's right. I've seen the wolves watch experts do a survey looking for the presence of wolves of areas in NW Ontario. The experts concluded there were none in the area. After they were done, I pointed out to them where they had urinated on their former campsites, and where they had marked all of the spots they otherwise had been. LOL.
Good luck on the trapping!
Gosh, I’d love to send you my dear little black-and-white Karelian Bear Dog. The breeder assured me he’d know exactly what to do and not run around stirring up bear trouble and bringing it back with him (main reason for not taking most dogs into bush). I’ve followed their usage over the years out West with problem bears, an option midway between relocating or shooting them.
Course’ my little pooch would probably try to introduce himself to the wolves...
So where exactly to you live in the Great White North? What are the main online local news sources?
And has anyone from Barrow given an authoritative review of “30 Days of Night?”