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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2012, 09:08:40 AM »
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2012, 12:27:02 PM »
Nothing like an elk buffet all winter

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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2012, 12:36:14 PM »
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Then they will probably trap and relocate them.

NAH, they don't have any experience in that :chuckle:

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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2012, 12:37:19 PM »
Does this mean all of you are gonna stay out of Joe Watt canyon this year??  :chuckle:
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2012, 12:47:14 PM »
I'm not going but then again, I rarely do.   Nothing to do with the wolves

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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2012, 03:52:15 PM »
Does this mean all of you are gonna stay out of Joe Watt canyon this year??  :chuckle:
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2012, 07:44:48 PM »
Though i haven't seen a wolf first hand. I have seen tracks multiple times south of i90. 3 years ago i found a pair tracks around cabin creek and followed them for a long way and crossing the river so i know 100% they weren't dogs
Last year while bear hunting up around peoh point i found 3 sets of tracks. My girlfriend at time has relatives who live by joe watt and they told me about hearing wolves a couple summers ago while out camping up around elk heights

last summer on a separate trip above peoh point myself and gf had thought we seen 2 wolves from about 600 yards away. But i wrote it off as 2 german shepherds, as i seen a truck drive past with 2 of them in the bed of the truck about 3 hours later. Though the 2 i seen were black looking, and the dogs in the truck were brownish colors.

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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2012, 08:14:23 PM »
Looks like a poodle track!
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2012, 08:56:10 PM »
Well, the management plan says it allows for lethal removal if the wolves threaten vital big game herds.  I guess we'll see if the WDFW is willing to put their money where their mouth is.  When the wolves find Joe Watt in the winter it's going to be a smorgasbord.  Then the elk will get chased back up into the hills where there's no feed so they will all be weak from hunger and a better target.  Then when the wolves get to oak creek they can supplement the elk steak with bighorn.
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2012, 09:08:10 PM »
247 hunting days to harvest??? Killmore that means MAYBE 1 more elk in my lifetime!!!! and thats been good hunting, wait for years to come..

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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2012, 09:23:55 PM »
Well, the management plan says it allows for lethal removal if the wolves threaten vital big game herds.  I guess we'll see if the WDFW is willing to put their money where their mouth is.  When the wolves find Joe Watt in the winter it's going to be a smorgasbord.  Then the elk will get chased back up into the hills where there's no feed so they will all be weak from hunger and a better target.  Then when the wolves get to oak creek they can supplement the elk steak with bighorn.

I can see it now... the pack will have 2 or 3 head cornered there next to the Hay barn, against the fence...   slowly eviscerate the elk so they bleed out till they are to weak to fight.  The pack starts feeding on their bellies while they are still standing.... ripping them apart alive...    and we have to stand there and watch and not do a damn thing..... 
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2012, 09:30:13 PM »
Well, the management plan says it allows for lethal removal if the wolves threaten vital big game herds.  I guess we'll see if the WDFW is willing to put their money where their mouth is.  When the wolves find Joe Watt in the winter it's going to be a smorgasbord.  Then the elk will get chased back up into the hills where there's no feed so they will all be weak from hunger and a better target.  Then when the wolves get to oak creek they can supplement the elk steak with bighorn.

I can see it now... the pack will have 2 or 3 head cornered there next to the Hay barn, against the fence...   slowly eviscerate the elk so they bleed out till they are to weak to fight.  The pack starts feeding on their bellies while they are still standing.... ripping them apart alive...    and we have to stand there and watch and not do a damn thing.....

And hopefully someone will record it or film it and post it all over the net, maybe even get one of the tv stations to air it (yeah right)....our elk and deer herds will be toast before too long....


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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2012, 02:49:32 AM »
Rumor has it that a lone wolf has been seen in the Colockum. Not sure if it's true but if there in the Teanaway or Taneum it could be a possiblity
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2012, 08:16:04 PM »
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Re: Wolf tracks near Joe Watt feed station
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2012, 09:06:31 PM »
6 years ago a friend and i saw what we thought were 2 big huskies up cedar creek in taneum. it was november we were driving on a lot of snow, and nobody had been up there for a while. we were coming toward each other and when we saw them i stopped the pickup. they kept coming at a lope and when they got closer they got really agressive barking and came to about twenty yards, then they took off back up the road and uphill off into the trees. the way they acted was weird, we thought they had to have been dogs and really expected to see someone coming from the other way but drove it as long as we could and never did. could have been wolves i guess now that i think about. would wolves ever act like that?

Up in the woods with no houses around for miles???? They would have been a motionless pile of fur. I have been hunting elk behind locked gates on the west side, 3 miles of the nearest house and seen dogs hunting the same elk that I'm hunting. They were in a pack of 4, but when it was over they were a pack of 2 and running hard. Dogs up in the woods like that running aint up to no good. They might as well be a relocated non-native species....."SOS".  I have zero tolerance for that. If it is chasing deer and elk and is wearing a collar, I don't care. The "Dog" is eating a 125gr Muzzy or eating lead.  I hear the coyotes got into some steroids up there in Taneum and the feral dog problem is getting out of control. Might have to do a round up and return them to their owners. Just a idea.
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