Colville Tribe opens wolf hunting season on reservation

[PolarBear]

I hope that you can find em'!

[boneaddict]

I saw a wolf on the Colville rez today on my way home from Republic.  It had to have been close to a  3/4 mile away on a hillside by 13 Mile.  I stopped to take a leak, saw something moving across the hillside, got out the binocs and sure enough.  It was all by it's self.  Almost solid black with a little white on the tail and face.  Man. I with that I could have popped him but my bow just won't reach that far.

Thats where I ran into them alot last year.  The Sanpoil right in that country is where their central core was for the last couple years.   Thats the batch that was feeding strays south into Hellgate and I think some even swam the river into Lincoln.  I then started seeing more of them over the hill in Hall Creek and that country. 

[PolarBear]

My buddy watched a couple kill a white tail doe on the San Poil near Golden Golden Harvest on the K Diamond K Ranch (Konz's).  He was saying that they have moved down the San Poil on the rez.  We use to see them up Hall Creek, Sherman, Snow and Seventeen Mile areas.

[jess]

I shed hunt that 13 mile north and have seen tracks every spring and have noticed the deer are not hitting the traditional wintering grounds im finding alot more sheds on the north slopes in that area. I wonder if they are trying to hide from the wolves that are hanging out in the wintering grounds? Bone have you noticed that too? I wish the tribe would get after this pack!

[boneaddict]

Yes, the deer are timbering up or are dead.   They hunt with their eyes way more than their nose.   Thats why they are devastating the deer in the sawtooth so badly during the summer.   They are targetting all of the open rocky slopes (that the sawtooth is full of) where the deer usually summer.  They are pounding Barnably and all that open country as well. 

[boneaddict]

one of the reasons whitetail fair better than mulies in regards to wolves

[jess]

yeah i agree.. Some of my good muley spots i found nothing in last spring..

[Jonathan_S]

Muleys and elk are both very easily hunted.  I hate to think what will happen to both populations in a few years if nothing is done.

[PolarBear]

With as many wolves in the area it is surprising that the moose population around Republic is growing as fast as it is.

[JimmyHoffa]

Maybe they are killing off the deer/elk competing for food.

[Jonathan_S]

With as many wolves in the area it is surprising that the moose population around Republic is growing as fast as it is.

I would be curious to know how many moose are being killed.