Posted on 08/06/2010 2:09:34 PM PDT by OneVike
Thanks to U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's ruling (PDF file of preliminary injunction order) that the Endangered Species Act protections must be reinstated for wolves in both Montana and Idaho, be prepared to hear of more reports about large packs of wolves roaming the countryside in neighboring states like the one that was filmed in Oregon. Even though neither state, Washington or Oregon, were part of the Fish and Wildlife Service's wolf reintroduction program, they are definitely a recipient of the outcome. It was the late "90"s when the first wolves made it to Oregon, now they are beginning to roam in large packs.
Make no mistake about it, the wolves set loose in Idaho in 1995 & 1996 were not Rocky Mountain wolves, also known as Canis Lupus Irremotus in the scientific community. The Rockey Mountain wolves were smaller and only hunted in pairs. (the only time they would hunt in groups of more than two was to train their offspring. When the young were old enough they would leave to find a mate and thus hunt with their mate to start the whole process again). However, the Canadian gray wolves are known as the Canis lupus Occidentalis, and they are a super sized predator which hunt in super sized packs. The Canis lupus Occidentalis evolved through the years so they could keep up with the caribou herds which can run hundreds of miles without taking a break to elude any predators. They also evolved into bigger and stronger wolves so as to be able to bring down and kill larger animals that are indigenous to Western Canada and Alaska. This super sized wolf also changed their habits of hunting in pairs to hunting in supper packs of 15 to 25 wolves per pack as seen in the photo above that was taken last year in Wyoming. So do not be fooled into thinking that the wolves we are dealing with today are the same as the smaller Canis Lupus Irremotus.
This worrisome outcome that we are dealing with in the Northwestern states may have taken fifteen years to materialize, but the Canadian gray wolves roaming in the Northeastern portion of Oregon are definitely descendants of the ones released in either Central Idaho or Yellowstone in 1995 & 1996. In the video, Biologist Pat Matthews was just east of Joseph Oregon when he spotted them from the across a canyon at a distance of several hundred yards. He filmed them as they made their way through the snow in hunt for food. It's being reported that it is the largest wolf pack ever spotted in Oregon, and while it's not as big as the one photographed in Wyoming last winter, for Oregon it's pretty big.
Follow the link below to see the video of the
Largest Wolf Pack Ever Found in Oregon
(Excerpt) Read more at ChicoER/Gate)....
I was going to say .308 but figured the bastards would be on before I do anything more than club em.
Justice demands that U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy spend a few nights in a tent in the Northwest wilderness.
22 Wolves? If we could put them on a t-shirt it would be 19 times more awesome than a 3 wolf t-shirt!
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Agreed.
Now that is a good capitalist idea that will do wonders for the cause and the economy.
I think that you need something light and handy, optical sights, and normal capacity (30 round) mags.
The MAC or any of the AR’s would serve, I guess, but I like the 124 grain bullet for short range work, along with the mutts for early warning, hence the MAC for walking...
The puppies come along just because they are.
I'll tell you this Vike. I'm almost 50 and the most exciting thing ever in my life was discovering a 9 and 1/2 foot male wolf in our trap. These dogs are huge, vicious and my 15 yr old and I were on cloud 9.
Kill them all, let Sarah sort them out.
These Canadian wolves are no more indigenous to the lower 48 than would be the African lion or cheetah, or Bengal tiger.
Food will get scarce for them when they have depleted all the wildlife and maybe 90% of the humans in the continental USA. Good luck getting in that other 10%.
Thanks for the ping!
when the government was being sued in court to stop the introduction of these Canadian wolves, it was none other than the National Audubon Society, Predator Project, Sinapu, and Gray Wolf Committee that joined the anti wolf farmers and hunters in litigation to stop the program from ever being started. I am talking about animal rights organizations who were primarily concerned with protecting the endangered status of naturally occurring Rockey Mountain gray wolves or better known to them as the Canis Lupus Irremotus. They were concerned that naturally occurring wolves which wandered into the recovery areas would essentially lose their endangered designation and would mistakenly be treated as part of the experimental population, or that the larger Canadian wolves would decimate what was left of the endangered Rockey Mountain wolve. (Which Has Happened).
In the resulting joined lawsuit, the first allegation was that defendants introduction of Canadian gray wolves, which were neither threatened nor endangered, violated the requirements of ESA section 10 (j). They wanted to show that the fact that the wolves indigenous to the northern Rocky Mountain region (Canis Lupus Irremotus) and the Canadian wolves used for reintroduction (Canis Lupus Occidentalis) were two different subspecies of gray wolf. They also argued that because the two types of wolves were distinct subspecies, the Recovery Plan would have an adverse impact on the conservation of the irremotus subspecies because of possible interbreeding, thus the Canis Lupus Iiremotus would cease to exist.
Thanks to the introduction of the Canadian Grays, not only are we seeing the destruction and devastation ofg the elk populations around Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, we are also seeing the complete annihilation of the very animal they claimed they wanted to save, the Canis Lupus Iiremotusthe.
I live in Montana now and can only say that I am a wilderness and wildlife lover. I only ask that we take good care of our wildlife so we can kill them, eat them and wear them. I also love to view them in their habitat.
If people were taught that nature itself is so much harder and more destructive to these critters they would shut the heck up about what we harvest.
The islands in SE Alaska would suffer 70% winter kill of the blacktail deer due to starvation from deep wet snow.
All the while we had F&Game ticketing or fineing people who lived off this excellent meat because they took one over their limit. So many elderly natives were supplied their winter protein by a young relative. This while nature was killing 10’s of 1000’s and he could not take extra to supply those who could no longer provide for themselves.
F-ing politics.
We have a wild wolf pack of one.
Three escaped from their large enclosure when a tree fell across the double chain link fence. Two returned to the remaining three. One is atlarge in a very large wild area including a US Army Ordnance Works that is literally crawling with deer and turkys
The wolve tenders at the park say he is dead. My guess is he is in heaven..... a wild area with lots to eat.
Methinks when you get a pack that size what they're hunting is not supper but dinner!
LOL, it should have been super.... Oh well.
Thanks for the image link. It will come in handy one day.
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