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Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« on: March 30, 2013, 08:02:03 AM »
Snuck out on the Tumble Creek (Suncadia) golf course yesterday.  I isn't yet officially open so the sand traps haven't been worked but I came across a track that isn't the usual elk track in the trap. 

The picture here is the track with my putter as a reference. The putter head is 4 1/4 inches.  We put a golf ball in front as well which has a diameter of 1.68 inches.  Near as I can tell the print is a bit over 4" wide and long.  No one in the area has a big dog that I know of that would have been around there. 

I'm going to go nose around with a tape this morning.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2013, 08:30:39 AM »
Possible, doesn't quite look long enough.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2013, 05:23:20 PM »
Went and measured the trac and it is 5 inches or so long, stride is about 34 inches.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2013, 05:29:58 PM »
Here they come...

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2013, 06:43:33 PM »
That's essentially the back door for the Teanaway pack, right?   I mean, it's only a couple miles from where they've definitely been spotted.  wouldn't be surprising.

I don't know enough to tell the difference between a wolf track and a big dog track......

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2013, 06:45:38 PM »
That would have to be a pretty large dog.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2013, 07:06:21 PM »
Great Dane? Just throwing it out there. That's a big track.

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2013, 08:13:29 PM »
That's essentially the back door for the Teanaway pack, right?   I mean, it's only a couple miles from where they've definitely been spotted.  wouldn't be surprising.

I don't know enough to tell the difference between a wolf track and a big dog track......

Probably ten miles as a crow flies from Teanaway.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2013, 08:48:19 PM »
I hate to say but wolf tracks in tumble creek is old news there's photos of a large black male running around there and a couple smaller ones too.

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2013, 08:51:07 PM »
That would have to be a pretty large dog.

Yes it would.  Sand always makes size estimation a little harder, but even with the size exaggeration it would create that would still be a very big dog track.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2013, 07:44:29 AM »
That would have to be a pretty large dog.

Yes it would.  Sand always makes size estimation a little harder, but even with the size exaggeration it would create that would still be a very big dog track.

I agree but every time I have seen people letting their dog run on the course, the dog has loved running all over in the trap, the only other track in this one was a lone coyote track that had been washed out by the snow and rain.  That said I'll stick to "possible".

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2013, 01:22:33 PM »
Neighbors out for a walk this morning at 8:30am, reports seeing a gray colored wolf near where I saw the track. 

He is making a report to the WDFW website.
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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2013, 01:26:05 PM »
I'd be putting out a trail camera with some bait, and try to get a picture of it.

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2013, 08:47:54 PM »
I'd be putting out a trail camera with some bait, and try to get a picture of it.

I'll have to work on the camera and think about where to put it.

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Re: Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2013, 09:26:47 AM »
I remember how much the greenskeeper loved the elk bedding down around the greens and sand-traps over at Suncadia.........

Are you a member at Tumble Creek? When I worked up there years ago they weren't terribly fond of non-members nosing around up there, even in the off-season.
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