Packwood pack?

[diegomx3]

So I was out predator hunting this morning out in the area I elk hunt and in the middle of the road was a lot of tracks now I'm no expert but they look Wolf to me what do you guys think

[denali]

super yote/ hybrid   

[T Pearce]

super yote/ hybrid   

No you're not.

Not fun finding that stuff in your elk area.

[JimmyHoffa]

Consider...a collared wolf traveled from Montana to Colorado and back.  A collared wolf traveled from eastern Oregon to the northern California coast then settled in southwest Oregon--thought to be the only one.  But it found a mate.  A collared wolf traveled from Wyoming to Grand Canyon in Arizona (with DNA confirmation of its origin).  I would think a short trek across Washington would be a pretty easy feat for a wolf.

[T Pearce]

Wouldn't the hoof rot areas be prime for this predator?
What elk they didnt kill they would force out into the other areas that dont have hoof rot yet?

[fastdam]

It certainly looks big

[diegomx3]

I've hunted in the curlew area and heard howls and that was my first exprieriance with wolves and didn't really expect to see sign in "my back yard" but I've notice a big decrease the last few yrs in elk population in my hunting areaso this may be the reason why

[nwwanderer]

Most, if not all of north America should be included in any wolf range map.  It would be normal movement with our current politics and wolf distrobution

[Charlie]

May well be 

[AspenBud]

Wouldn't the hoof rot areas be prime for this predator?
What elk they didnt kill they would force out into the other areas that dont have hoof rot yet?

I'm sure Weyco would be happy with that

Hoof rot? Where?   

[Lefty315]

A year ago Thanksgiving I took a cow elk with my muzzleloader in the Randle unit.   It was at the end of the day so I was working into the night.    I had heard a strange howling type vocalization  that I have never heard before.   It wasn't a coyote, I've heard plenty of them.

I wondered at the time if it wasn't a wolf, but since the State officials say they aren't in the area I concluded it must've been BIGFOOT!!!   Perhaps I was wrong and it was a wolf?

In 2011 I had a Muzzleloader cow permit for the Lewis River unit.   As I was loading up the camper to leave, a couple of guys stopped by to BS.  They were up scouting and seemed pretty familiar with the unit.  Towards the end of the visit one of the guys said "did you see any wolves?".  He then went on to tell me that. He had a friend who had worked up in the woods a lot and on a couple of occasions was positive he had seen a wolf.

All that being said, none of these areas  are very far as the crow flies, or the wolf travels, from corroborated wolf sightings.

It's really too bad..... I was hoping for Bigfoot:(

[Firedogg]

  Some guy up there is taking his great danes out for a walk. 

[TommyH]

Could be a young one... Here's a pic of a very large one.

[Griiz]

My son and I are pretty sure we heard a wolf howl just after dark last year in the Margarette unit as we were getting my cow out of the woods. It didn't sound like any coyote I have ever heard.

[villageidiot]

The fish and game biologists seem to be the last ones to admit you have wolves. They were told 3 times of visual sightings and given a hair sample taken off the fence. Always denying there were wolves in the Methow valley.  The same person that had the sightings and hair sample finally showed them about 12 trail cam pictures before they woke up. On his first report the Bio said " I will put that in my file with my Bigfoot sightings".

[huntingbaldguy]

I saw a huge gray/white "coyote" in the Ryderwood during modern elk season.  It truly didn't look like a coyote to me, for what that's worth.  It was out about 150 yards and had virtually no tan/brown on it.  Snout was wide, and maybe i'm being overzealous, but if i had to guess weight based on scale of the gut pile i myself was standing by the previous day it was closer to 80 lbs than 50.  I've thought about it a lot since then.  I've seen a lot of coyotes and imo they are unmistakeable, and the more i think about it the more i feel like i didn't see a coyote.

[PolarBear]

Saw a fist sized track along with a couple of huge piles of poo in the Ryderwood/Boistfort yesterday.  The elk are also pretty scattered about.