Posted on 08/20/2018 4:56:54 AM PDT by marktwain
On 12 July, 2018, a salmon researcher was treed by a pack of wolves in a Washington state wilderness area. She tried pepper spray and yelling, but the pack surrounded her and she climbed a tree. She later climbed down, only to find the wolves still there. She scrambled back up the tree and called for rescue, about 12:30 p.m. From capitalpress.com:
Washington wildlife managers initially opposed sending a helicopter or a search-and-rescue team to save a woman treed by wolves in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, according to recordings and summaries of emergency calls obtained Tuesday.
The Department of Natural Resources pushed back and prepared to dispatch an air crew that eventually executed a swift rescue. Notes from a call between DNR dispatcher Jill Jones and a wildlife officer summarized WDFW’s position, and her position, shortly before the helicopter launched.
“No helicopter. Federally listed species. 3 WDFW personnel saying so,” according to DNR’s call log.
“We are more concerned for her life than the listed animal,” Jones told the officer. “He indicated that she is safe up in the tree. … I told him that we do not know how safe she is. I don’t know how stout the tree is, and if the limbs will continue to hold her or how long she can hold on.”
A helicopter crew, in aircraft N338WN, finally rescued the woman later in the day. The crew consisted of four men, who from all reports, did an excellent job.
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She would have been in a lot worse trouble if it was a pack of MS-13.
Hey, what a load of BS this article is! We know wolves don’t attack people. This is all a demonization of wolves by right wingers. If you treat wolves with gentleness and respect, they will do the same.
Or at least this is what the Leftists tell us.
Centuries of people wiping out wolves wherever they can find them should tell us something else.
Unbelievable that anyone would refuse to help someone in a situation like this. Just how long do they think someone can hang on in the canopy of a tree? If she’d fallen she would have been torn to shreds. There are a several people that need to be out of a job.
Wow. We KNOW Leftists value the species over ours, but one can imagine that might change if those pussified WDFW people were treed by wolves.
I laugh every single time I see that! Great commercial!
“Washington wildlife managers initially opposed sending a helicopter or a search-and-rescue team to save a woman treed by wolves”
IOW the “wildlife managers” valued the wolves lives over the woman’s.
Prosecute every one of them for indifference to human life.
For safety reasons you should never work alone. Not just in the wilderness but everywhere.
I recall a similar incident when authorities would not dispatch a helicopter to rescue a lost kid in the woods.
He had to spend the night in the woods until someone came to get him in the morning.
They just thought she was a seal...errrr a moose....yeah.
LOL!
And never work with someone who runs faster than you.
*and bears
Why anyone would head out into the deep woods without an adequate firearm I’ll never understand. Even CT is an open carry state so if I’m out fishing miles from the nearest paved road I legally sling a rifle.
I'd have many, many black rhinos.
California mountain lion don't attack people....until they start nibbling on joggers.
Grizzly in Montana don't attack people....until someone is killed.
Public employees who advise against rescuing a woman treed by wolves need to be re-assigned to city parks to count squirrels and chirping birds.
or work unarmed...
We don't fire government workers who screw up, we promote them...
When I was a kid, I was “treed” (actually, I had to climb up a chain link fence with barbed wire on top, and sit in the barbed wire) by a pack of feral dogs, that oddly enough, was composed of dogs left behind by military personnel at an overseas base.
I don’t remember how many dogs there were (20-30) and I don’t remember how long I had to stay up there, but I’ll tell you, it was plenty scary.
I was 10-11 at the time, and was riding my brother’s bike through a remote part of the base (where they stored old equipment, 5”, 8” and 16” naval shells, equipment removed from ships, etc) when a whole pack of dogs of all sizes came pouring down out of a cave on the side of a hill and began pursuing me.
I thought I might be able to outrun them, so I stood up on the pedals and began pedaling like mad. That bike had a chronic problem though, and that was if you pedaled hard and fast, the chain came off. Which is what happened.
The dogs caught up quickly, and began snapping at my legs which I hiked up...the bike began slowing down, and I could I was going to run out of speed and fall of very soon, and in a moment of clarity unusual in a dimwitted kid like me, I glided next to a chain link fence and leaped onto it, scaling to the top and sitting there with the lower strand of barbed wire above my thighs as I held on to the top strand.
After some time (seemed like an eternity, but may have been only a half hour at most) they stopped milling around and went off into the hills.
The surreal thing was, these were all dogs that people had owned over there and just left behind when they rotated out. They kind of looked like people’s pets, all mutts, but...when they were in a pack like that, they no longer seemed like people’s pets, and I wasn’t going to take the chance.
Eventually they left, and I got down off the fence. The whole time I was trying to put the chain back on, I was extremely reluctant to take my eyes off the hillside that the dogs had come down from...to this day, I remember just how damned nervous I was, glancing ever second or two over my shoulder while trying to get that chain back on.
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