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hes not a employee, contracted by IDFG. this guy was not some pro wolf guy if you met him hes a die hard trapper.
ground swell the largest wolf hes ever known with official weight was 152 lbs.That wolf is life-sized in Bonner's ferry I believe. Another myth he stated was these wolves DNA is no different than the wolves of hundreds of years ago that roamed the area. wolves in AK,NWT have home ranges of 500 mi and some lone wolves will travel further spreading their genetic make up all over the continent. One interesting point he brought up was wolves had been here far prior to the re-introduction in 95. He said there had been wolves in the lolo for a fact in the 80's and probably earlier and up north in Bonners. I also know that wolves were up above northport in the late 80's as we saw 1 and heard them on a couple nights hunting. What has baffled them is to see how the wolves spread so successfully in 95, yet the wolves that were here in places never took off and held in check. The only logical answer he had was people were taking care of them SSS rule, poison
You guys are talking about Jack Whitman, the man has trapped tigers, bears and other dangerous game all over the world and is probably one of the most knowledgeable wolf trappers out there. Super nice guy! He goes by Gulo on Trapperman.com and has a thread with some of the animals he has trapped around the world. https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/6779380/1
Maybe they are bigger than the wolves here before, but that doesnt mean their dna is different. Whitetail in florida and whitetail in alberta are significantly different in size, but theyre genetically the same species. Same with slaskan brown bears and interior grizzlies.
The mystery of why our native wolf was kept in check and the introduced invasive wolf is uncontrollable is bull crap though.
What i find interesting about the whole wolf subspecies argument is that the wolf lovers responsible for the introduction make no distinction between the supposedly smaller native subspecies and the larger canadian wolves they replaced them with, yet when it comes to the mexican gray wolf thing all the sudden its a different species needing separate protections and classification. Lumpers one minute, splitters the next. Whatever suits their agenda.
wolves dna is the same from the upper midwest to AK, body size of the wolves vary to region to what animals they target.
Quote from: huntnnw on March 04, 2020, 06:51:06 AMwolves dna is the same from the upper midwest to AK, body size of the wolves vary to region to what animals they target.Body size within a species us usually smaller the closer to the equator you get. In the colder north larger body mass is an advantage during the winter as animals are trying to stay warm and in southern warmer areas staying cool is more important, that's why Canadian Whitetails are generally larger bodied than Northern US whitetails which are larger bodied than whitetails is the Southern US which are in turn larger bodied than desert whitetails (Coues). Same holds true with blacktails. California blacktails are much smaller bodied than Washington blacktails. There are exceptions to that as in the case of brown bears. The coastal brownies have easy food sources (salmon) which allows them to grow larger than interior grizzlies and in Alaska, the coastal grizzlies have a longer feeding season before they hibernate than the interior grizzlies which adds to the size difference.It's possible that the introduced wolves will selectively breed themselves smaller if that turns out to be an advantage for them. Time will tell.
Idaho is no different from other big hunting states. The residents vote and they tell their legislators they want fewer nonresident tags. They reduce the tags but increase the price since residents also say don't raise my prices. Until nonresidents vote, it will always be this way.
