Finally Wildlife Managers Kill Wolf In Stevens County

[KFhunter]

heh
 
it won't be long, wait until they are goooood and pissed and then get baiting and body grip traps back - and hounds!

[BENCHLEG]

I think we should live trap them and send them to seattle. This state is assbackwords

[GrainfedMuley]

On another note watching the news. Coyotes are taking over west seattle. I love it. Rick

Coyote......Wolf....they look the same to me..........

[Ridgeratt]

I talked with Whorton this spring at the Bone Barn. He told me that they were at the guy up the roads from Mcgirvins doing their best to keep the wolves out of his caving pens. So they have been aware of the problem for quite a while it has just came to the point were they have to do something.

The McIrvins are not the only ranchers who have had trouble, they are getting the press right now. Plenty of other ranchers have had trouble and Stevens County is inching closer to being completely fed up with wolves. Cattlemen had another big meeting a couple days ago in Colville, these are all the usual baby steps that have occured everywhere else that wolves have over multiplied.

To their credit, WDFW is acting on this faster than I expected at McIrvins. But while they are concentrating on controlling the wedge pack there is another 14+ packs in Region 1 which are multiplying in numbers and which means more new packs will emerge. Please understand if 1 or 2 trappers have confirmed this many packs in WA, anyone should realize there are a lot more packs out there.

WDFW needs to hire more trappers and do it soon to get these wolves confirmed or they are contributing to the problem. 

[CAMPMEAT]

I think it's so funny that ALL comments about the wolves comes from the westside. The westsiders have not a clue what they are even talking about.
( I'm talking about the greenies, WDFW etc only ) They get all this info from most likely unreliable sources. They have no worries about lively hood or anything else. I can bet that 0 % of the people that have all these facts have never seen a wolf in the wild.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Sounds like an Eastsider talking Campmeat  Unless your talking about WDFW AND THEIR BIOs  All I know is I do not want to see one on the westside nor the eastside  .. and if we do not find away to shut them down then we all have a problem ...how anyone concerned about wildlife would want these monsters roaming the hills is beyond me ..and how the greenies have more power and say so than we do is beyond me too !!!!

[hunter-4-life]

Any we think it is bad now...... They haven't even met their objective goal for the population yet. It will only get worse as they populate in numbers.

[Ridgeratt]

Westsider's or Greenie's?

 Guess I took a short nap!

 

[buckfvr]

I wish there was some way we could take initial steps to hold WDFW and the commissioners legally accountable for the ensuing  disaster.  Tell them in a letter, signed by as many outdoorsmen and women as possible.  They need to face charges with fines and loss of employment and jail time.  The way they stick it to a guy who kills a deer illegally, they should be hung for the destruction we will no doubt witness first hand.   

[NWBREW]

Any we think it is bad now...... They haven't even met their objective goal for the population yet. It will only get worse as they populate in numbers.

It has been met mutiple times. They just keep changing the number.

[bearpaw]

Sightings and trail cam photos pretty much indicate about 15 packs in region 1 alone. It's my firm belief this state is exceeding the required packs for delisting except for possibly in the SW & Olympic zome. We need some of these packs to move there so we can delist the whole state. As I stated before, it seems the only thing keeping the Okanogan from confirming packs is a biologist who seems to have to much power in controlling wolf confirmations there.

Members of this forum have documented numerous packs in the upper Cascades and Okanogan. What gives??

The problem is WDFW only counts what they prove to exist, right now they only have two trappers for the whole state. 

[CAMPMEAT]

Sounds like an Eastsider talking Campmeat  Unless your talking about WDFW AND THEIR BIOs  All I know is I do not want to see one on the westside nor the eastside  .. and if we do not find away to shut them down then we all have a problem ...how anyone concerned about wildlife would want these monsters roaming the hills is beyond me ..and how the greenies have more power and say so than we do is beyond me too !!!!

Reread my post.

[NWBREW]

To their credit, WDFW is acting on this faster than I expected at McIrvins. But while they are concentrating on controlling the wedge pack there is another 14+ packs in Region 1 which are multiplying in numbers and which means more new packs will emerge. Please understand if 1 or 2 trappers have confirmed this many packs in WA, anyone should realize there are a lot more packs out there.

WDFW needs to hire more trappers and do it soon to get these wolves confirmed or they are contributing to the problem. 

Dale, I to did not expect them to take action as fast as they did and you hit the nail on the head with the number of wolves in Region 1. This is why it is so important to post all the info anyone has about sightings, pictures and such. I believe they are paying attention to the info posted on this site. Thanks to those who go the extra mile to bring this to the attention of the WDFW.

[Ridgeratt]

To their credit, WDFW is acting on this faster than I expected at McIrvins. But while they are concentrating on controlling the wedge pack there is another 14+ packs in Region 1 which are multiplying in numbers and which means more new packs will emerge. Please understand if 1 or 2 trappers have confirmed this many packs in WA, anyone should realize there are a lot more packs out there.

WDFW needs to hire more trappers and do it soon to get these wolves confirmed or they are contributing to the problem. 

Dale, I to did not expect them to take action as fast as they did and you hit the nail on the head with the number of wolves in Region 1. This is why it is so important to post all the info anyone has about sightings, pictures and such. I believe they are paying attention to the info posted on this site. Thanks to those who go the extra mile to bring this to the attention of the WDFW.

For everyone who has thought they have taken action this fast. This was documented back in 2007. the problem was it /was considered a transient pack.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=11430

Guess I just don't understand.

[bearpaw]

You are exactly correct ridgeratt, I just figured WDFW would try to postpone any action even longer. But I think they sense that they are getting closer to losing control in NE WA. They are going to have to act in order to keep any form of control, they have been sitting by figuring out how to fit all these wolves in Washington with a ridiculous wolf plan and wolves have simply been multiplying.

By reasonable calculations of sightings there are at least 15 packs in Region 1 alone. They are here, they are breeding, this is only the beginning, it's going to get ugly, especially when all our moose disappear, elk and deer become fewer, and hungry wolves are forced to eat beef or whatever else they can get.

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