Myths, Legends, & Misconceptions of the Wolf

ChicoER Gate ^ | 8/21/10 | T. R. Mader

[Tom Hawks]

I and others have written extensively about the wolf reintroduction program and the destruction it has caused since the first 60 were released into Yellowstone Park and Idaho in 1995. What we are attempting to do with these articles is to wake up as many people as possible about the danger the left has put Americans in.

There is a Wolf Cult in America that has convinced many Americans that it would be a good thing to have wild wolves as neighbors in our local parks. Well I for one, and many like me, do not wish to be confronted by a wolf when we decide to go fishing or camping. Especially since the wolves that are being introduced into our parks, like to roam in packs. So if you see one you can bet the farm there are more lurking around near by.

Gate was given permission to post, in whole, an article written by T. R. Mader, the Research Director of AWS which is an independent research organization. Mader has researched wolf history for more than 15 years before he wrote this article. He has since traveled extensively as he continues conducting research and interviews on environmental issues.

Mader wrote this article at the height of furor over the wolf re-introduction program in 1995 & 96. It's my hope that by posting this, many of you will have a better understanding of the anger many ranchers, farmers, hunters, and even regular small town city folk have with a program that has proved to be everything those against the program warned about some 15 years ago.

Due to the length of the article, it has been divided into three parts, and instead of creating three separate posts on FR, I have created three links below for you to follow if you so desire to read the article, "Myths, Legends, & Misconceptions of the Wolf".

Part 1- Misconceptions 1 to 6
   
Part 2 - Misconceptions 7 to 12
  
Part 3 - Conclusion & Bibliography

(Excerpt) Read more at ChicoER/Gate ....

[Eagles6]

You let a hunter hunt and he’ll find a way. Lot of archery hunting is done from tree stands 15-25’ off the ground. An errant shot or a through and through goes into the ground. Lot better than on poster’s suggestion of introducing wolves into a urban/suburban environment.

[SCalGal]

You let a hunter hunt and he’ll find a way. Lot of archery hunting is done from tree stands 15-25’ off the ground. An errant shot or a through and through goes into the ground.

I know archers who practice in urban homes - "deer stand" on the roof, target on the ground in the yard.

[Eagles6]

There you go. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

[TigersEye]

There are plenty of hunters here. There is no decent place to hunt. It hasn’t been practical for about twenty years.

[goat granny]

That picture of the man holding up a dead wolf took me by surprise. When I first saw it I though whys the picture of the guy with the bear in the article....that wolf is huge. Until I noticed the tail I though it was bear....

You give lots of good information to anyone who has any brain cells working..Links were very informative...thanks

[Melinda in TN]

I don't know why I was pinged to this but if you think I'm an anti-hunting liberal nothing is further from the truth. We allow hunting on our property because we are over run with deer. Sure, the young ones are fun to watch but the big ones are a nuisance in large numbers. We can't put out a garden anymore and the garden is practically in my back yard.

Even though we allow hunting on our farm we still have WAY too many deer. They seem to disappear during hunting season and come back when it's over.

I still would not want wolves introduced to my area. I would rather have hunters.

[Melinda in TN]

Sorry Tom Hawks. I just read your reply to another poster about why we were pinged.

We had a hunter hunt our farm year before last and he got two deer at one time. He shot one and the other one just stood there so he got it too. Our deer seem to be very bold, or stupid. Nobody got one last year. It’s hard to imagine a herd of 20 plus deer just disappearing into thin air for hunting season then returning as though nothing happened.

[Hot Tabasco]

In highly populated districts the firearms for hunting deer are limited to shotguns

The entire southern half of Michigan is "shotgun only" for deer hunting.....

[junta]

We need to hunt them no doubt there are way too many. But what a screwed up area that part of the mountain West with all the California reject white liberals bringing their stupidity with them. I feel sorry for the natives being displaced by morons which are a bigger problem than wolves.

[Valpal1]

Hunting seasons separate agricultural activity from pursuit of game to protect farmers from the hunters, and the hunters from the farmers

Another patently ignorant statement. Hunting season is in the fall/winter for the sake of the game rearing of young in the spring/summer. It has nothing to do with agriculture. When dear become so plentiful as to be a nuisance, it's time to brink back spring hunts. Your state is over run with deer because your game department lacks the gnads to increase the hunting to the point necessary to get the population under control. That's a political problem and wolves will make it worse. It's obvious you continue to argue because you can't admit to being wrong. Have a nice day.

[muawiyah]

The idea isn't to just turn wolves loose in town ~ rather, to devise a way to "control" the wolves electronically, and then GUIDE THEM to do what they do best which is leaping over fences and killing small animals.

They could have controllers sitting at desks handling them just like they would work a predator drone.

I think too many here are squeamish when it comes to hooking up animals to wires and computer chips ~ but there's no reason you can't use some of the existing technology used on lab rats.

We could do the same thing with pit bulls.