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Offline Curly

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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2013, 02:22:39 PM »
Bigbeamhunter does bring up a good question, though (if he would have worded it without the "re-introduction" word and just simply said ~ How much of our hunting license purchases go to fund the wolf management? it would have been a more valid question. :twocents:

I don't mind some of my license fee money going to fund trapping and collaring of wolves, but when WDFW comes-up with a ludicrous wolf plan instead of allowing shooting of wolves on-sight in the Federally delisted portion of the state, I have to question if my money is being spent wisely (and I think it is obviously not being spent wisely).

It is sad to think that deer/elk tag money might be spent on wolf management (or mismanagement depending on one's perspective).
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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2013, 02:27:55 PM »
This is going to get bad.   With a solid foothold now, packs will be splitting and new packs forming in new ground, and it's a down hill spiral form here........   
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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2013, 02:29:51 PM »
I should add though, that I was impressed with WDFW's decision to kill a bunch of wolves out of the Wedge Pack.  Though, I do think they screwed up by killing the one with the collar.  They should have left the collared one to try to locate more wolves.  But it is hard to complain about a dead wolf........so I will have to say they did okay. :twocents:
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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2013, 08:12:16 AM »
2 weeks after they shot "all" of the wolves in the wedge there was fresh wolf crap. I guess it was the ghost of the ones they shot leaving sign.

I should add though, that I was impressed with WDFW's decision to kill a bunch of wolves out of the Wedge Pack.  Though, I do think they screwed up by killing the one with the collar.  They should have left the collared one to try to locate more wolves.  But it is hard to complain about a dead wolf........so I will have to say they did okay. :twocents:

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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2013, 08:46:10 AM »
Do they really expect anyone to believe that the entire pack was killed?  :dunno:
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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2013, 09:48:31 AM »
Talking to the bio in Colville they were dancing around the question by saying that the "pack, a breeding pair, was killed"  I think that they know that they did not kill all the wolves in the pack but by their definition of a pack they removed it.  Once they killed the alfa with the collar it was all over, they could not find the rest.  Also I still think that there was two packs in the wedge.  One on the east side and the Wedge pack.  The two packs ranges merged at our place.  If you look at the map of the
Wedge pack range that they got with the tracking collar they stayed west of Hungry Hill.  Also there was no reported cow kills down by us.  I asked the question of the bio's why was there location specific behavior of the Wedge Pack?  They could not give me an answer. 

Do not get me wrong, I like the bio's in Colville and think that are doing the best they can.  Once the snow cleans up a little I am going to do my best to locate and document the second wedge pack. 

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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2013, 04:09:42 PM »
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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2013, 11:00:43 PM »
I would bet there are more wolves than they want to admit,  I had a solitary wolf go through my back woods this winter...Did not see it, but no dog makes prints that large, and space that far apart.

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Re: Our Wolf population has doubled
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2013, 06:12:43 PM »
Local Drums say!!

A set of wolves in a calving pen last week!!

Must be "Obake"

 


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