Free: Contests & Raffles.
I had some fun with a fellow we ran into this year who had just arrowed his first elk. He mentioned something about wanting to go back to his killsite to look for part of his arrow but chose not to "because he didn't have his sidearm with him." Asked this big, kind of tough looking guy why he'd need to have a sidearm to do such a simple task. Mentioned I've gone into many kill sites over the years, often in the dark and by my lonesome. Never carried a sidearm. His reply: cougars, bears & now wolves.I had to laugh!
Question: When did it get the designation Hozomeen pack?The Methow pack is the Lookout Pack. But there is another pack at the north end of Ross Lake into the Pasayten, its known as the Hozomeen pack. Not sure when the designation came about.
THey are more efficient killers than wolves by far. In fact I know of multiple instances where the wolves adapt to letting the cat make a kill then the wolves run the cats off, and they have to go kill again. Idabooner watched this for two winters from his front porch. Thankfully cats seem to show more fear than wolves do. That's the part that bothers me about wolves.
Wolfbait, your right about the Lookout Pack. The Hozomeen pack is a Canadian pack. It dens in Canada but right on the edge of the US. So it wanders into the Pasayten and is now down to Harts Pass. Or maybe its a lone wolf wandering or was it a member of new pack thats not yet known. But another question is, if it is a new pack, where will they go come winter? Lots of questions.
Quote from: jackelope on September 24, 2013, 04:43:08 PMhttp://nwsportsmanmag.com/editors-blog/usfws-looking-into-wolf-incident-in-western-okanogan-county/That's really a lame story. So full of holes, and overall just seems dis-jointed.
http://nwsportsmanmag.com/editors-blog/usfws-looking-into-wolf-incident-in-western-okanogan-county/
But another question is, if it is a new pack, where will they go come winter?
Quote from: LRP on September 26, 2013, 09:06:15 PM Wolfbait, your right about the Lookout Pack. The Hozomeen pack is a Canadian pack. It dens in Canada but right on the edge of the US. So it wanders into the Pasayten and is now down to Harts Pass. Or maybe its a lone wolf wandering or was it a member of new pack thats not yet known. But another question is, if it is a new pack, where will they go come winter? Lots of questions.Bull chit, but nice try.Rare Wolf Pups To Be Isolated, PhotographedTimes Staff: Times News ServicesWildlife biologists hope to capture the first wolf pups known to have been born in Washington in decades - but only on film from unmanned, infrared cameras set up near the den site in the North Cascades.State and federal biologists in May located the gray wolf den containing pups by howling at them and getting distinctive barks and howls in return. It is the first confirmation in 15 years that wolves are living in Washington, says Harriet Allen, state biologist.More importantly, she said, ``it's the first wolf den, first indication of breeding since the early 1900s. We've always thought there were transient wolves in the Cascades based on tracks.''Biologists will not attempt to get close enough to see the den in the Hozomeen area of Ross Lake National Recreation Area for another month for fear of disturbing the she-wolf and causing her to move her pups.The road into the Hozomeen has been closed to all traffic until June 14.Copyright (c) 1990 Seattle Times Company, All Rights ReservedFriday, April 17, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AMIn accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. s: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlBy the way what does Harriet Allen do now?In Washington, Feds Opt For Wolf Introduction Over Recovery http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2010/06/08/in-washington-feds-opt-for-wolf-introduction-over-recovery/