I love wolves. Seriously.

[Skyvalhunter]

I am thinking a ban from the forum is in order for you. Maybe not a lifetime ban but one that will make you think about your post questions.   
Why don't you try to go to an area where wolves are existent and try to harvest some game animals to eat. Those of us who actually like to hunt know that these wolf hugging groups main agenda is to do away with hunting. This can be done by propagating the wolf population in such a way that hunting will no longer be needed to keep game animals in check. So enough of the wolf in sheep's clothing front.

[trophyhunt]

I am thinking a ban from the forum is in order for you. Maybe not a lifetime ban but one that will make you think about your post questions.   
Why don't you try to go to an area where wolves are existent and try to harvest some game animals to eat. Those of us who actually like to hunt know that these wolf hugging groups main agenda is to do away with hunting. This can be done by propagating the wolf population in such a way that hunting will no longer be needed to keep game animals in check. So enough of the wolf in sheep's clothing front.

And that IS the bottom line, period!  The wolf is the poster child for ANTI hunting, so if you are truly a wolf lover, think about which side your really on.  I'll take my remark to pick a side out, I understand it's not as simple as that.

[yakimanoob]

I am thinking a ban from the forum is in order for you. Maybe not a lifetime ban but one that will make you think about your post questions.   
Why don't you try to go to an area where wolves are existent and try to harvest some game animals to eat. Those of us who actually like to hunt know that these wolf hugging groups main agenda is to do away with hunting. This can be done by propagating the wolf population in such a way that hunting will no longer be needed to keep game animals in check. So enough of the wolf in sheep's clothing front.

And that IS the bottom line, period!  The wolf is the poster child for ANTI hunting, so if you are truly a wolf lover, think about which side your really on.  Seriously , pick a side.

Are you guys referring to me? 

If so, I humbly suggest that if you think it's impossible for me to love wolves as creatures in themselves and still love/advocate/defend hunting, then I'm not the one who's causing the problem here.  And neither are the wolves.   

[Skyvalhunter]

To put it nicely, you are delirious!!

[Russ McDonald]

Having lived in Louisiana and Georgia am familiar with the spread of kudzu

Imagine the usfws started introducing kudzu into areas that were not yet affected or had it spread under control.

Then apply that same voice of reasoning to the wolf being introduced into Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon Wyoming Wisconsin Minnesota.

Wolves are symbolic of the polarization or value differences between rural and urban communities in this country - and to a larger extent what control the federal government should/should not have in the West. 

So...all the drama about wolves is part of a much larger debate/disagreement than it is about wolves themselves.

There are extremists on all sides of wolf issues...they all lie, distort the truth, and selectively use information to push their agenda.  As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle...but its not always easy to hear it over the screeching from extremists on both sides of wolf issues. 

A voice of reason!  Thanks idahohuntr!  Not enough of this on these emotional issues.

Sorry to say by wolves have always been in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  I grew up with wolves in MN since I left and went in the Navy in 1987 and they move around with the deer population.  They opened the season back up in the midwest the last I heard.  You can not have a species introduced or otherwise and not manage them.  The state needs to de-list the wolf from the endangered species list and then lets go hunting.

[cbond3318]

I am thinking a ban from the forum is in order for you. Maybe not a lifetime ban but one that will make you think about your post questions.   
Why don't you try to go to an area where wolves are existent and try to harvest some game animals to eat. Those of us who actually like to hunt know that these wolf hugging groups main agenda is to do away with hunting. This can be done by propagating the wolf population in such a way that hunting will no longer be needed to keep game animals in check. So enough of the wolf in sheep's clothing front.

And that IS the bottom line, period!  The wolf is the poster child for ANTI hunting, so if you are truly a wolf lover, think about which side your really on.  Seriously , pick a side.

Are you guys referring to me? 

If so, I humbly suggest that if you think it's impossible for me to love wolves as creatures in themselves and still love/advocate/defend hunting, then I'm not the one who's causing the problem here.  And neither are the wolves.

  Fall in line boy, or risk ridicule from your peers!

Do your own research, form your own opinions. You don't have to choose a side, just have the self collected knowledge to own your opinion. The rest of this nonsense is just loud shouts reverberated off the tinfoil! 

[Timberstalker]

LMAO!!!! ^^^^^^

[jmscon]

I thought I was going to get chased off this forum and I probably did get put on ignore by a few members with this thread I started last year about this time.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,196122.0.html

[trapp01]

It's pretty simple. Most of us don't hate wolves, we hate the tree hugging hippy comies that are obsessed with any thing that relates to anti hunting. Go to a few DFW meetings on wolves over here on the west side of the state and it'll shock you on how many people actually have no clue about wolves or management. It's a huge debate because of demographics. Basically people who have no interest in hunting or management are very vocal on the wolf topic and are making it hard for the state to do what they need to do.

Maybe I'm a little bit of a conspiracy theorist but wolves seem like a way to cull hunting.
It's the same thing the spotted owl did for logging in the 80s and 90s.
Just like the Manama pocket gopher has done for development in thurston county. The guy who spearheaded the Manama lawsuit has a son who is working on the pro wolf side. I heard him speak at the lynnwood wolf meeting.

[buglebrush]

I am thinking a ban from the forum is in order for you. Maybe not a lifetime ban but one that will make you think about your post questions.   
Why don't you try to go to an area where wolves are existent and try to harvest some game animals to eat. Those of us who actually like to hunt know that these wolf hugging groups main agenda is to do away with hunting. This can be done by propagating the wolf population in such a way that hunting will no longer be needed to keep game animals in check. So enough of the wolf in sheep's clothing front.

And that IS the bottom line, period!  The wolf is the poster child for ANTI hunting, so if you are truly a wolf lover, think about which side your really on.  Seriously , pick a side.

Are you guys referring to me? 

If so, I humbly suggest that if you think it's impossible for me to love wolves as creatures in themselves and still love/advocate/defend hunting, then I'm not the one who's causing the problem here.  And neither are the wolves.

You're exposing your ignorance.   For your own good please stop.  I'm​ not going to comment about things I know nothing about, and I highly suggest you follow the same pattern. 

[yakimanoob]

You're exposing your ignorance.   For your own good please stop.  I'm​ not going to comment about things I know nothing about, and I highly suggest you follow the same pattern.

What am I doing that you would like me to stop doing, exactly?  What have I commented on that you think I know nothing about?

[buglebrush]

Wolves.  These types of threads keep putting up by people who don't actually live in Wolf infested country, and don't know what they are taking about.  It just gets tiresome.   

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

Wolves.  These types of threads keep putting up by people who don't actually live in Wolf infested country, and don't know what they are taking about.  It just gets tiresome.   

Responses like this get tiresome as well.  Where exactly is this wolf infested country you speak of?  You ever even seen a track?

[yakimanoob]

Wolves.  These types of threads keep putting up by people who don't actually live in Wolf infested country, and don't know what they are taking about.  It just gets tiresome.   

You're upset about me asking a question about our collective feelings about wolves? On the forum dedicated to talking about wolves?  That's odd...

[Gringo31]

With all the pro-wolf comments.



It seems these folks are upset that the time we went without wolves was a sad time.  That they should have been introduced back long ago.  Also seems to make sense that they should be cheering on all they can for the increase in population of Grizzly bears.




To them I say hurray for the zika virus, hurray for more ticks and lymes disease.  Hurray for whatever it is that everyone knows will only reduce the populations, add stress as well as waste to the game animals we pay out of our pockets to protect and manage.......as well as harvest.
 

You're upset about me asking a question about our collective feelings about wolves?

Don't play the odd card.  You knew exactly what you were doing when you did it.