Ya know I saw this hour show on direct tv other night. This german lady wanted to find some wolves in BC. In the end she had wolves walkin up smellin her, no joke.
They must have been conditioned to people cause wolves where we live are super scarce around people. I shot at a blk wolf back during moose season , but it was runnin for brush and I was far off, missed.
WE killed some caribou yesterday. Bou are migrating and this one spot where they cross road, gut piles everywhere from locals subsistence season. Wolves following bou migration are cleaning up gut piles. We saw one early in morn but he took off before we could shoot; still good seein one.
I can’t wait till yukon freezes so I can start setting snares. Those wolves make a fool outta me, smarter than most people but still alot of fun trying to fool them.
We don’t have grizzly bears in Colorado, either. Until one kills someone. A couple of months back, we were camping in high country (about 11,000 feet) and a grizzly walked right up to the encampment.
Four hours before that, we’d taken pictures of a black bear. I saw the grizzly, grabbed my weapon and camera. Fumbled the camera but kept hold of the gun. :)
We made a LOT of racket and he watched us a few minutes, then moseyed off. He didn’t run like a black bear would have. He slowly walked away.
State wildlife folks have refused to admit it was a grizzly even though I correctly identified the prints, and the outline of the bear. They put it down in the books “as a very large, male black bear”....
One day, someone’s going to get ate by one and they’ll blame it on coyotes.
Small family ranchers with small herds can not withstand loses to their life stock.
They need that extra cow to help pay the mortgage and property taxes .