3 MORE WOLVES KILLED TODAY

[Ridgeratt]

If they opened it up to hunting can you imagine the amount of people up there looking.
I offered to take the Bio out and show him the wolves but he wasn't interested back then.
Sorry I meant the Land rushes where all the wagons are lined up and they say go!

[quadrafire]

What were the rose colored rigs??? I would think a "local" would be their goto source as to how to find these rascals?

[Ridgeratt]

Rose colored Fords with exempt plates on them. (WDFW)

[quadrafire]

Rose colored Fords with exempt plates on them. (WDFW)

I'm going to bed. will check back in tomorrow for updates. G'nite

[bearpaw]

I don't think they got them all, the only way this will end for a while is if they killed all the wolves that were eating cattle. I think it's just a matter of time till we have more wolf attacks anyway, but if they left some of that pack it's nearly guaranteed to happen again sooner than later. On the other side of the coin, this will take a lot of heat off the WDFW. It's also possible that 2 or 3 of these wolves left the immediate area a while back when all the heavy human activity started. It certainly will be interesting to see how soon before we have more trail cam photos of wolves in the wedge and how soon before more livestock or pets are attacked.

[teanawayslayer]

 

[300rum]

To all of you who are applauding WDFW for taking a "first step", let me break it down for you what is actually happening.   

What was done is the absolute minimum amount to try to appease, not take care of any problem.  This is an attempt by WDFW to try to show that they are being "proactive" while at the same time riding the fence on the issue and not tell the public what actually will happen biologically.  This was not based on biology or documented cases (that I can find).  I can't find anything where we "take out a pack" and let another one replace it with gentler, more understanding animals with discretion of what they eat!

The letter from the Director is a spinless "Oh, I was torn up over this decision.  It was so, so hard on me to do this, but it has to be done." 

If they were being true to the public and true to "wildlife management", they would have said "this is the first step in actively managing wolves in Washington State since they inhabited the state.  We expect to have to do this more and more often as conflict will increase and active management principles will have to be implemented."

If anything, what this tells me is that there is an effort to do the least amount possible to manage wolves in Washington.  It won't get better fellas, it is going to get much, much worse.   

[JLS]

To all of you who are applauding WDFW for taking a "first step", let me break it down for you what is actually happening.   

What was done is the absolute minimum amount to try to appease, not take care of any problem.  This is an attempt by WDFW to try to show that they are being "proactive" while at the same time riding the fence on the issue and not tell the public what actually will happen biologically.  This was not based on biology or documented cases (that I can find).  I can't find anything where we "take out a pack" and let another one replace it with gentler, more understanding animals with discretion of what they eat!

The letter from the Director is a spinless "Oh, I was torn up over this decision.  It was so, so hard on me to do this, but it has to be done." 

If they were being true to the public and true to "wildlife management", they would have said "this is the first step in actively managing wolves in Washington State since they inhabited the state.  We expect to have to do this more and more often as conflict will increase and active management principles will have to be implemented."

If anything, what this tells me is that there is an effort to do the least amount possible to manage wolves in Washington.  It won't get better fellas, it is going to get much, much worse.   

What Washington did was pretty much in line with what other states and the feds have done when a pack exhibits this behavior.   You start by killing one or two, and if that doesn't work you kill them all.  Of course the area will recolonize with wolves.  In some locations wolves seem to have a hard time staying out of trouble.  There are areas in MT where wolves can't seen to exist without eating livestock, but there are others where there have been packs for years with little issue.