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Support Wolves No more or less than any other Predator. I am not against them, God put them here for a purpose.Given the fact that I am a Hunter/Predator I am not going to let my greed for game condemn any of the other Predators needs or rightful place in the big plan for things. All of us have needs and wants, I am not going to consider mine more important than of the other Predators.
You're right about that- wildlife populations in general have really increased, but it's not because of the extirpation of wolves. It's because we have reasonable (?) hunting laws and people working on creating decent habitat. The wolves in WA are not the Mackenzie river wolves released in YNP. The wolves we have here are native animals that are moving (maybe being displaced?) into our state. Who knows about the Blue mtn wolves? Genetic samples will be needed to determine their origin.
To elaborate further with facts, hunters currently harvest an average of 8,000 elk and 38,000 deer in all areas of Washington (see page 78, page 83, of the Washiongton Draft wolf plan). When 471 wolves are eating elk and 864 wolves are eating deer, there can be 0 human harvest or herds will decline. Throw another 250 wolves (governnment reproduction numbers of roughly 20% to 24% annual reproduction) on the landscape in the next spring and game herds decline anyway.Now this is why I make so much noise about wolves.....