Wolves tree DNR worker in Okanogan county

[bigmacc]

I,m no conspiracy type, BUT I agree there is a lot more wolves in the Methow than they are admitting to, along with cougars, thats why this herd is just a memory of what it once was and if something isn't done the next encounter may not end so well. More and more people are using the valley for recreation, biking, hunting, fishing, snowshoeing, cross country skiing. Between the cougars and wolves, some bad things are going to happen eventually. These encounters, sightings, the depletion of the largest mule deer herd in the state to a fraction of what it once was are shots over the bow by these predators. When bad things do happen someone is going to need to be held accountable if there is or has been deception. Bottom line, admit there is a predator problem and do something about the problem before the "real" bad things start to happen.... Once again, glad the young lady is ok, being out there by herself and unarmed, VERY LUCKY!

[mdbuck5x5]

Some people are naturally suspicious of the press. Some people refuse to believe that the cuddly wolf is a danger to man at all. I believe you're seeing a mixture of those being played out here.

And some believe the wolves are going to eat their faces every time they step out the door.

Just curious why is this story a dramatization or fabricated? Any proof of that? I don't believe everything I read but I also don't discredit them either off a guess! 

The dramatization I was speficially mentioning was that the media highlighted the part about law enforcement officers headed to the scene were authorized to shoot to kill. They were headed to a potential wolf attack on a human. Of course they're authorized to shoot to kill.

Look I don't know if you're pro wolf, anti wolf or whatever and I don't care but i do find it rather comical that you discredited this story because you read it on social media! That's all.

[PlateauNDN]

Dang Jackalope and his pro-wolf ways!!!















 

[cbond3318]

Remember, on Hunt Wa if you don’t want Wolves poisoned into extinction, you’re a wolf loving liberal begging for Socialism.

and “if anyone disagrees with that they should never post again.”

 

[KFhunter]

My guides and their dogs have been skirted many times for several miles coming out with the hounds, scares the dickens out of you and your dogs when wolves are howling and barking and skirting you for a long distance, especially if it's after dark. We've been very lucky, no hounds eaten yet and no actual attacks yet.

A good friend was treed by wolves in bow season a few years ago, I wrote about that on this forum, he had to wait till they left after a few hours.

One of my neighbors was elk hunting and had glimpses of wolves skirting him, he heard a noise and turned just in time to shoot a wolf in mid air from the hip, that was confirmed by WDFW, he got a piece of meat and bone out of that wolf but WDFW didn't find a dead wolf.

I know of those stories and a few more that aren't public.  Those that think the DNR girl was over reacting maybe she was, maybe she wasn't.  We know the wolves were still in the area until the helicopter landed and then they finally they scattered according to the article...the helicopter landed..not as it was circling overhead looking for a landing zone but actually landing..think on that.   

wolves won't always zone in on you and challenge you, until the day that they do.  I've been followed for days myself and never had an issue, didn't howl at me or challenge me, it eas hard to even tell they were following me around but I made a game of kicking gopher mounds and seeing what stepped in the fresh dirt in the last 30 minutes or so, but that doesn't mean they won't act differently or trigger on me if I get to close to a den or kill site, or find them with empty bellies,  or whatever it is that makes them target me or you, or the DNR girl.  She was near a campsite, why did they target her specifically?  We'll never know probably, just something out of the normal wolves were used to campers being in a specific area and she went out of the norm and hiked up a ways to where they were running..who knows   

I certainly wouldn't be so cocksure that because I've been around a few brown bears that I know what a pack of wolves will do from one moment to the next.   

[bigmacc]

Remember, on Hunt Wa if you don’t want Wolves poisoned into extinction, you’re a wolf loving liberal begging for Socialism.

and “if anyone disagrees with that they should never post again.”

 

Just speaking for myself here I think they were already close to extinction in the lower 48, I think a lot of folks that hunt deer, elk, moose are wondering why they are being coddled, nurtured and being brought back to the point they are depleting deer and elk herds to the point they are close to non existent, especially now days when human population is even greater and may have negative interactions with these wolves. Those of you who support or agree with wolf introduction have no issue with me, thats your deal, agree or disagree, post away , but I,m telling you, something stinks and if you are a hunter of deer, elk and moose you may want to consider that our days may be numbered to chase these animals around the mountains. Nothing to make lite of in my book, not to mention someones life was also in danger.

[4fletch]

There may not be any humans killed by wolves in Washington yet but it maybe a matter of time before it happens. As elk and deer become less abundant wolves will be more apt to hunt what ever is available. In 2005 Kenton Carnegie Canada was killed by wolves, in 2010 Candice Berber Alaska was killed by wolves . Don't think this is not going to happen in Washington

[buglebrush]

A friend's wife and daughter were attacked in their yard.  Locked themselves in the garden until the wolves finally left.  I don't have permission to post anything more than that, but it's one of three people I know personally who've encountered aggressive wolves in the past two years.

[jackelope]

A friend's wife and daughter were attacked in their yard.  Locked themselves in the garden until the wolves finally left.  I don't have permission to post anything more than that, but it's one of three people I know personally who've encountered aggressive wolves in the past two years.

In Washington?

[jackelope]

Remember, on Hunt Wa if you don’t want Wolves poisoned into extinction, you’re a wolf loving liberal begging for Socialism.

and “if anyone disagrees with that they should never post again.”

 

This is, in fact, a thing.

Sometimes I’m not even sure how people make it outside, never mind all the way out into the mountains.

[cbond3318]

Remember, on Hunt Wa if you don’t want Wolves poisoned into extinction, you’re a wolf loving liberal begging for Socialism.

and “if anyone disagrees with that they should never post again.”

 

Just speaking for myself here I think they were already close to extinction in the lower 48, I think a lot of folks that hunt deer, elk, moose are wondering why they are being coddled, nurtured and being brought back to the point they are depleting deer and elk herds to the point they are close to non existent, especially now days when human population is even greater and may have negative interactions with these wolves. Those of you who support or agree with wolf introduction have no issue with me, thats your deal, agree or disagree, post away , but I,m telling you, something stinks and if you are a hunter of deer, elk and moose you may want to consider that our days may be numbered to chase these animals around the mountains. Nothing to make lite of in my book, not to mention someones life was also in danger.

I want Wolves managed by any means necessary in Washington, , I want Spring Bear, baiting and hound hunting brought back.

I’m Glad they are not extinct in the lower 48. I don’t put any higher category of danger on Wolves than Bear, Cougar, alligator, python, rattlesnakes , wolverine, sharks, or an armed idiot in the woods.

The same know it alls labeling anyone who doesn’t sound the alarm of a Wolfpocalypse as a “Wolf lover” gets damn old.

The same chest thumpers assuming  anyone who sees a wolf and thinks “hey, that’s pretty cool” is a Wolf Lover , gets damn old.

The same internet biologists that shoot down differing information, reports, studies and opinions and assume the posters are bias, gets damn old.

Glad the gal is home safe and a den site nearby explains all I need to know.

I’ll leave it at that. 

[Cougartail]

I was skipping to Grandma's house one day.. wearing my favorite red scarf when a wolf jumped out at me.. but that's a story for another day!

I was called a liberal by some for not hating the wolf and an alt right scum for trapping wolves..  Guy can't win these days???

[bigmacc]

Remember, on Hunt Wa if you don’t want Wolves poisoned into extinction, you’re a wolf loving liberal begging for Socialism.

and “if anyone disagrees with that they should never post again.”

 

Just speaking for myself here I think they were already close to extinction in the lower 48, I think a lot of folks that hunt deer, elk, moose are wondering why they are being coddled, nurtured and being brought back to the point they are depleting deer and elk herds to the point they are close to non existent, especially now days when human population is even greater and may have negative interactions with these wolves. Those of you who support or agree with wolf introduction have no issue with me, thats your deal, agree or disagree, post away , but I,m telling you, something stinks and if you are a hunter of deer, elk and moose you may want to consider that our days may be numbered to chase these animals around the mountains. Nothing to make lite of in my book, not to mention someones life was also in danger.

I want Wolves managed by any means necessary in Washington, , I want Spring Bear, baiting and hound hunting brought back.

I’m Glad they are not extinct in the lower 48. I don’t put any higher category of danger on Wolves than Bear, Cougar, alligator, python, rattlesnakes , wolverine, sharks, or an armed idiot in the woods.

The same know it alls labeling anyone who doesn’t sound the alarm of a Wolfpocalypse as a “Wolf lover” gets damn old.

The same chest thumpers assuming  anyone who sees a wolf and thinks “hey, that’s pretty cool” is a Wolf Lover , gets damn old.

The same internet biologists that shoot down differing information, reports, studies and opinions and assume the posters are bias, gets damn old.

Glad the gal is home safe and a den site nearby explains all I need to know.

I’ll leave it at that. 

 ..due respect.........for some that lived in a time when wolves were not cool to see, you have to see both sides, especially if you are a hunter of ungulates. I only speak for myself about stories of family members in Alaska, Montana and Idaho. I have family going back to the 1930,s in Alaska and present day in Montana and Idaho, ask any of them.....wolves are not cool to see. I understand though why some do not agree. I do agree with you about them being managed but when the powers to be see it differently is where the "toe to toe" takes place. The whole subject is a fine line with wolves, soon we will see the outcome I,m afraid

[buglebrush]

A friend's wife and daughter were attacked in their yard.  Locked themselves in the garden until the wolves finally left.  I don't have permission to post anything more than that, but it's one of three people I know personally who've encountered aggressive wolves in the past two years.

In Washington?

In North Idaho.  Close enough.

[buglebrush]

Remember, on Hunt Wa if you don’t want Wolves poisoned into extinction, you’re a wolf loving liberal begging for Socialism.

and “if anyone disagrees with that they should never post again.”

 

Hyperbolic statement there.