Radio Collared "WOLF IN TOWN" this morning, WDFW called

[jackelope]

Do you guys think wolves are actually a threat to kids waiting at a bus stop? Serious question, not just being a jerk.

A few months ago a young female school teacher was jogging up in Canada that was attacked and killed by wolves.

Also somewhere in Easter washington a few months ago a female researcher was doing some research work and had to climb a tree to get away from the wolves there.

So realistically wolves are a threat to humans but the --- in Olympia dont care. They have their deer & elk devastation plan into play and no one will get in their way.

It is time to wake up and do the right thing when you see these unregulated predators in my personal oppinion.

@HighlandLofts
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[jackelope]

oh and the teacher killed by wolves was 9 years ago in Alaska.


https://www.adn.com/outdoors/article/wolves-killed-alaska-teacher-2010-state-says/2011/12/07/

[pianoman9701]

Do you guys think wolves are actually a threat to kids waiting at a bus stop? Serious question, not just being a jerk.

A few months ago a young female school teacher was jogging up in Canada that was attacked and killed by wolves.

Also somewhere in Easter washington a few months ago a female researcher was doing some research work and had to climb a tree to get away from the wolves there.

So realistically wolves are a threat to humans but the --- in Olympia dont care. They have their deer & elk devastation plan into play and no one will get in their way.

It is time to wake up and do the right thing when you see these unregulated predators in my personal oppinion.

My only thing is people are attacked by cougars, bears etc yet there isn't the same mindset? Are wolves a danger to kids or people in general, of course they are. I am just not quick to jump at the idea they are MORE dangerous than other predators. 

I don't believe that black bears are as dangerous as either. However, they all need to be controlled and people should be aware of all of their killing potential. But wolves live and hunt in packs. They are more dangerous than other predators in that way and their history worldwide proves that. We should be killing cougars, bears and wolves which are coming closer to human populations.

[KFhunter]

Do you guys think wolves are actually a threat to kids waiting at a bus stop? Serious question, not just being a jerk.

A few months ago a young female school teacher was jogging up in Canada that was attacked and killed by wolves.

Also somewhere in Easter washington a few months ago a female researcher was doing some research work and had to climb a tree to get away from the wolves there.

So realistically wolves are a threat to humans but the --- in Olympia dont care. They have their deer & elk devastation plan into play and no one will get in their way.

It is time to wake up and do the right thing when you see these unregulated predators in my personal oppinion.

My only thing is people are attacked by cougars, bears etc yet there isn't the same mindset? Are wolves a danger to kids or people in general, of course they are. I am just not quick to jump at the idea they are MORE dangerous than other predators. 

I'm alert for all predators, grizzly scare me more than anything else. 

For wolves I don't think they're there *yet* but once the game is depleted they'll get there, history has proven this.  We just aren't there yet.

[MooseZ25]

We don't need a kid at the bus stop to be attacked or killed to realize we have a predator problem.  That wolf is in town because that is where the prey is at.  Not much for prey left out in the woods.  Most of the predator problems goes unreported by WDFW.  There was a cougar that killed a house cat last Saturday morning outside a private residence and when the owner opened the door to see what was happening the cougar chased him and his boy back into the house.  Did anybody read that in the paper or anyplace else?  We have a huge problem that is only getting worse. 

[Buckhunter82]

I find it hard to believe there is only 6 wolves collared in N.E. Washington. I have seen one, got a game cam pic of one and now one in blue creek. Thats 3 with collars within a fairly small area.

[WapitiTalk1]

We don't need a kid at the bus stop to be attacked or killed to realize we have a predator problem.

Unfortunately, I think you hit the nail on the head.  I think that is exactly what may have to happen before folks wake up. 

[pianoman9701]

  and probably more than once. Once will be chalked up to human fault somehow.

[Ridgeratt]

and probably more than once. Once will be chalked up to human fault somehow.

Or not a confirmed attack by WDFW.

[huntnfmly]

We don't need a kid at the bus stop to be attacked or killed to realize we have a predator problem.

Unfortunately, I think you hit the nail on the head.  I think that is exactly what may have to happen before folks wake up. 

I agree
And when people post statistics saying the odds are very low of being attacked by wolves I say ask the people who's loved ones have been attacked or killed their odds were 100%

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Wolves have been spotted in Colville for years. A friend of mine sent me a picture of a plaster cast made from a track not 100 feet from his house that measures over 6 inches wide. This was from last week up the Gold Creek loop. You can hear the damn things howling on any given night out on highway 20 corridor.

Let's not get carried away. Never been a wolf with 6 inch wide feet.

[vandeman17]

We don't need a kid at the bus stop to be attacked or killed to realize we have a predator problem.

Unfortunately, I think you hit the nail on the head.  I think that is exactly what may have to happen before folks wake up. 

I agree
And when people post statistics saying the odds are very low of being attacked by wolves I say ask the people who's loved ones have been attacked or killed their odds were 100%

Same goes with the people who die in a plane crash, struck by lightning.

We can all agree that wolves have been around for years and year in areas that we all hunt. Lets say we did a forum wide survey of how many hours or days in the field everyone spent in the last 5 years and compare that to the amount of people who even saw a wolf out in the field, let alone were attacked by one. I am confident that those percentages would be way lower than my chance to draw a blues rifle elk tag with 1 point.

The intent of my post is not to argue or sound like a wolf lover but instead to really stop and think about the lengths to which some people are proposing we go to avoid a situation that is probably as likely to happen as us dying in a plane crash yet we don't hesitate in the slightest to jump on a plane to travel. 

[KFhunter]

Wolves have been spotted in Colville for years. A friend of mine sent me a picture of a plaster cast made from a track not 100 feet from his house that measures over 6 inches wide. This was from last week up the Gold Creek loop. You can hear the damn things howling on any given night out on highway 20 corridor.

Let's not get carried away. Never been a wolf with 6 inch wide feet.

This is the biggest I've seen, I took the images, that's a 30lb Brittany paw that just about fits in one toe of the wolf

30-06 cartridge 3.3 to 3.4 inches, not sure what Hornady superformance 165 SST is exactly. 

[jackelope]

I'm just sitting over here wondering why we didn't build cages at the bus stops to protect the kids from bears and mountain lions and cougars and coyotes and bobcats and stray dogs and chi-mo's...most of which likely pose more of a threat than a wolf does.

[jackelope]

Wolves have been spotted in Colville for years. A friend of mine sent me a picture of a plaster cast made from a track not 100 feet from his house that measures over 6 inches wide. This was from last week up the Gold Creek loop. You can hear the damn things howling on any given night out on highway 20 corridor.

Let's not get carried away. Never been a wolf with 6 inch wide feet.

this gotta be close, I took the images, that's a Brittany paw that just about fits in one toe of the wolf

I'm sure I don't have to tell you that your tracks are going to appear significantly larger when they're all melted out like that.
Don't get me wrong...they're huge tracks.
What cartridge is that?