who has seen a wolf in WA.

[jackelope]

i am curious to know how many people on here have actually seen a live wolf in washington.
not tracks or maybe heard a howl or my buddy's neighbor's uncle's brother's dad saw one, or anything.
just plain i saw a living breathing wolf in the flesh in washington state.
and if you did, did you report it to the wdfw? if not, why not?  there was some wolves allegedly seen up the road from my family's place in the blues and it was reported to the wdfw. they were out there right away looking to confirm the sighting. a biologist and others came out the next day. they don't mess around if there is a reported sighting.
there was a comment made on a different thread about 10 wolf tags in this state. i would venture a guess that hardly any of them would get filled.
there's a few folks on here that spend a serious amount of time in the woods where the wolves are...so if anyone is going to see them, i would think there'd be a couple on here to see them.
just a curious thought i had reading all these threads about SSS and blah blah blah

please try to keep this on topic or i will nuke it.

[firecrotch]

where at in the blues?

[MuleySniper]

Stickslinger and I have definitely heard them. One time he my dad and I swear we saw one a few hundred yards out. Unless it was a super coyote, but we all agreed on wolf.
MS

[Curly]

Saw a few close to Lake Wenatchee around 1990. 

[509er]

I have not seen one in Washington, but I have seen them in B.C.

[archery288]

My old man had one trot by the treestand over whitetail hunting this year... Jet black and lookin for his next meal!!

[agchawk]

Great idea Jackelope. I have wondered the same thing. I spend a LOT of time in the Blues and have NEVER seen one. I am not calling anyone that claims they have a liar or anything...I just have personally never encountered one.

I have always wondered though, with all the folks that say they have heard one, found tracks, kills, etc why haven't we seen any pics of one alive? Whether they be personal cameras or trailcams. After all, there are a LOT of trail cams out there...I would think that sooner or later SOMEONE would capture one on film. Heck, I'd take a pic of one that has been tendered roadkill for that matter. (Again, not accusing folks of embellishing or flat out lying...I was just wondering aloud)


(I do know for a fact that there was one captured on a trailcam N of Spokane a couple years ago. There was an article in the Spokesman Review on it and it included the pic)

[jackelope]

where at in the blues?

alpowa ridge...thats all your getting. 


i am not insinuating in any way there are no wolves here. in fact if you can talk to the right people at wdfw they will tell you where they are for sure. until they establish territories and start breeding, they do not consider them resident wolf populations, and once they do establish territories they are easy to keep track of.
i swear we heard them howling 2 springs ago when we were turkey hunting north of spokane...but we didn't see them or see any tracks.

[firecrotch]

i have personally seen one in the blues last year. also im not giving out an area its already been reported to the game biologists here...

[Jerome]

Dont know if this counts or not but 4 years or so ago turkey hunting out of Davenport i was walking through some timber and on the other side of a draw there was the biggest damn coyote i have ever saw.  I unloaded my turkey load at it and came up empty handed.  Never once did wolf come to mind until this year when i saw two wolves hit around the davenport area and sent to a lab in California.  So maybe it was a damn wolf.  If not it was a state record coyote.

[huntnphool]

Saw a bunch at Wolfhaven down south with the inlaws, they just couldn't understand why I wasn't all warm and fuzzy.

[Red Dawg]

A friend of mine saw one in the blues a couple years back, no doubt in his mind. I am glad I haven't seen one yet.

[andrew_12gauge]

I highly doubt washington will be getting 10 wolf tags we'll be lucky enough to get to hunt them here in idaho within the next 4 years and maybe 8 if obama stays in office

[agchawk]

Ya got me curious so I did a google search. Not sure how many folks have seen this article before but I thought I would post it here since it pertains directly to the subject. This was in July of last year (08)
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Ten years after launching their first wilderness survey with a remote camera, Conservation Northwest captured images of six wolf pups and a collared adult on Monday.

Two collared adults from the central Washington wolf pack–the "Lookout Pack"–were confirmed as 100% wolf by DNA testing by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Lookout Pack of the Methow Valley is the first wolf pack in Washington since the 1930s. Genetically they are related to wolves from BC or Alberta, and made their way to Washington from there.

In a study from Oregon State University on the Olympic National Park, wolves were found to help riparian ecosystems by controlling populations of elk that eat young trees that stabilize stream banks.

Oregon also recently reported its first wolf pack since the predator was wiped out by bounty hunting a century ago.

The discovery of a wolf pack in north-central Washington comes soon after the decision by a federal judge to restore protection for wolves in the Northern Rockies, including the eastern third of Washington State, until a judge makes a final ruling in the case. To plan for the return of wolves to Washington, the Department of Fish and Wildlife has assembled a group of stakeholders including Conservation Northwest to create a state conservation and management plan for wolves.

[norsepeak]

I saw in the flesh, living and breathing 22 wolves in Pullman, Wa in 1996.  They were all in our large predator enclosure waiting to be let loose in Idaho and Montana.....man if I only knew then what I know now.....