What Pro-Wolf Advocates Do Not Want You to Know

[wolfbait]

Wolf Recovery in the Northern Rockies:
What Pro-Wolf Advocates Do Not Want You to Know
By Charles E. Kay
http://prfamerica.org/speeches/16th/WolfRecovery.html

[bearpaw]

great post 

Dr Charles Kay is featured regularly in outdoor magazines, he is very knowledgeable and has written a lot on wildlife management. A few paragraphs I noticed from this article contradict what many F&G biologists try to sell us on:

Predation.
One of the questions on everyone’s mind is, do wolves and other predators limit the number of game animals? Limit means reduce the population or control the population and the answer is: Absolutely. As I noted back in 1993, wolves and other predators — and I stress other predators — routinely keep ungulate populations at ten percent or less than what the habitat would otherwise support. It’s amazing the photos you get nowadays that you can pull of the internet. A lot of these aren’t my own photos. This was taken by wolf researchers. There’s a pack of wolves trying to bring down a moose.

Again, so it’s not just wolves. It’s wolves on top of grizzly bears. You can tell grizzly bears from black bears, the story is, you know, bear bells. You look at the bear droppings, the bear bells are on the grizzly bear droppings, not the black bear’s. That’s sort of a side issue. You note the long claws on the grizzlies and they have a hump on the back. So it’s wolves on top of grizzly bears.

On top of black bear predation, you have predation by mountain lions. This was a photo taken by a cell phone. It’s not a very good photo, but this is the mountain lion here trying to take down a six-point bull elk. How these lions kill? Their canines are about this long. They’re not enough to kill instantaneously. And on a big animal they can’t break its neck, so what they do is they crush the windpipe, like African lions do. They actually suffocate the animal. So that’s why they’re just grabbing it at the neck. And once it gets a hold like that in that deep a snow the bull’s basically dead. And that’s probably a bull, alive and in good health probably, 1,000 pounds.

Anacapa Coyote predation. One of the things all predators do, especially wolves and canids, is they go for the rear end of the animal. It’s the hardest to defend. People say they hamstring them. They don’t really try to hamstring them they just try to do massive tissue damage. And they actually try to get at the soft underbelly which is your part right here where there’s no bones and stuff and just rip that open and the guts fall out and then basically the animal’s dead sooner and not later. And they basically, in a lot of cases, eat them alive. OK on that stuff.

And all this predation is what’s called additive. OK, additive means, you know it’s the wolves kill one, and the mountain lions kill one that’s two. It’s not as if the wolves kill one and the mountain lions don’t kill one; that’s what’s called compensatory. A lot of these biologists will tell you that predation is compensatory and that’s not true. It’s actually additive.

[runningboard]

interesting read, thanks for posting

[buckfvr]

It should be required reading for wdfw..................man they've gotten awfull comfortable lieing to us.  Makes me sick. 

The only studies wdfw do are agenda driven to support their very own agendas.......maybe I should say, the agenda they've been tasked with and dont have the gonnies to refute.

[wolfbait]

It has made everyone sick except for the biologists on this site and many others. They have been taught a different way of wildlife management. It is the new progressive move=the WildLands project. We have all seen the same BS with the fish, in order to control water going to farmers etc.

 The wolves are being used to push the same agenda. After all when there is no more hunting, the excuse will be that there were not enough corridors in order for game herds etc to connect, and a huge land grab will be needed to cure this problem.

Look at the spotted owl and how logging went.

[idahohuntr]

I wish we could put all of the wolf extremists (pro and anti) on a small island in a distant ocean where they would never be heard from again...then here in the western US, we continue responsible wildlife management as we have for nearly a century without all of the screeching and whining and crying and lying. 

[KFhunter]

I wish we could put all of the wolf extremists (pro and anti) on a small island in a distant ocean where they would never be heard from again...then here in the western US, we continue responsible wildlife management as we have for nearly a century without all of the screeching and whining and crying and lying.

You and wolfbait on the same island?    Is this going to be on PPV?

[snowpack]

 

[idahohuntr]

I wish we could put all of the wolf extremists (pro and anti) on a small island in a distant ocean where they would never be heard from again...then here in the western US, we continue responsible wildlife management as we have for nearly a century without all of the screeching and whining and crying and lying.

You and wolfbait on the same island?    Is this going to be on PPV?

Not so much, but if you consider me a pro-wolf extremist you definitely should catch a ride to that island with wolfbait.     Think of all the college age hippie earth first girls that will be there?  You guys might like it   

[KFhunter]

I wish we could put all of the wolf extremists (pro and anti) on a small island in a distant ocean where they would never be heard from again...then here in the western US, we continue responsible wildlife management as we have for nearly a century without all of the screeching and whining and crying and lying.

You and wolfbait on the same island?    Is this going to be on PPV?

Not so much, but if you consider me a pro-wolf extremist you definitely should catch a ride to that island with wolfbait.     Think of all the college age hippie earth first girls that will be there?  You guys might like it   

Well you are a funny guy, made me ROFL pretty good with this line.

"then here in the western US, we continue responsible wildlife management as we have for nearly a century"

[KFhunter]

Obviously we need to come up with some ways people can identify themselves as a pro-wolf extremist when otherwise they had no clue.

You are a pro-wolf extremist if:

a) You think Idaho's Elk hunting is better than ever
b) You think there is no such thing as a predator pit
c) You think cattle should not be grazed on your public lands
d) You think easements should be utilized to gain access to all non-recreation public lands
e) You think the introduction of the wolf will make you a better hunter
f)  You think Yellowstone is finally balanced, as it should have always been
g) You think recreational hunting alone can work to keep wolf populations in check
h)  You think a wolf derby is a barbaric knuckle dragger slope head activity that will somehow get wolf hunting banned
I)  You join HW under false pretenses, steal an avatar off the internet and post pictures of kills that aren't yours in an attempt to gain legitimacy so you can derail and obfuscate all the wolf threads.
j) You think Yellowstone is the only location USFWS planted wolves.

[bearpaw]