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Like I've been saying, show me some sort of evidence. All these people saw a white van and all these people saw a cow being killed, not one has come forward and not one photo has been produced....
So, in the meantime we can do a few other things(things we should try to do anyway!)- one improve range conditions so winter kill is not so severe. Spray weeds and manage pastures to increase the carrying capacity of our lands. Maybe push the WDFW to cut doe tags. I don't thiink you git the jist of it all. When winter comes, things just git 50% werce for the deer. The deer are not as strong in the winter time, harder for them to make it. If it snows alot the wolves just wipe the deer out, unless you have one hell of a big heater to melt all the snow that is where it stands. As you know the wsgd dont like people feeding the deer. As far as cutting doe tags, There won't be any huntin here in another year. People don't go hunt in places that don't have any game.
The damage that has all ready been done to the ecosystem, would take years to recover if you got rid of most of the wolves today. It is way to late, to even start thinking that we will recover from this, all we can do is try to save what we have left.
Quote from: wolfbait on June 04, 2009, 07:00:15 AMSo, in the meantime we can do a few other things(things we should try to do anyway!)- one improve range conditions so winter kill is not so severe. Spray weeds and manage pastures to increase the carrying capacity of our lands. Maybe push the WDFW to cut doe tags. I don't thiink you git the jist of it all. When winter comes, things just git 50% werce for the deer. The deer are not as strong in the winter time, harder for them to make it. If it snows alot the wolves just wipe the deer out, unless you have one hell of a big heater to melt all the snow that is where it stands. As you know the wsgd dont like people feeding the deer. As far as cutting doe tags, There won't be any huntin here in another year. People don't go hunt in places that don't have any game.You asked for solutions so there you are- increase range productivity and increase deer winter survival to help offset the effect of wolf predation...You're right, I probably just don't "git the jist of it" it must be more prudent to sit online and bitch about how screwed we all are and how hunting in Washington has effectively been eliminated...maybe we should make up some big unfounded stories about a conspricy....whatever. We still have an opportunity to help the situation- if we decide to make the best of it is our choice. I'm going hunting this year, even with the wolves. You asked for some solutions, I gave a couple. What are your ideas to help the problem?BTW- you remind me of this guy "longshot" on this board. Are you familiar with this forum? http://www.methownet.com/bulletinboard.html
One study found that grey wolves increased by 800% over six years following the cessation of a wolf control program in Alaska.