Teanaway Wolf Pack

[Kain]

I have posted these before but I think it is possible wolves have been here for a very long time.  It is just getting harder and harder for the WDFW to cover them up.  How many people are laughed at when they say they saw wolves where no wolves should be.  My brother saw three in Indian Heavens Wilderness almost 20 years ago but if you tell the WDFW that they will just blow it off and say it must be a coyote.

There is just to much money in protecting wolves for them to have any incentive to call them recovered.

http://www.pacificbio.org/initiatives/ESIN/Mammals/GrayWolf/graywolfpg.html



There is no money in wolves that are already recovered.

News bulletin from 98
http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/release.php?id=oct1698a

Research studies earlier this decade indicated that wolves had reappeared in the North Cascades. A federal proposal to reintroduce wolves to the Olympic National Park is also being studied.

[UBA]

 Its funny how packs show up right next to easily driveable roads but everyone I know says game animals are more plentiful away from the roads. I agree these guys were dumped off by somebody.

[Kowsrule30]

Speaking of tribal laws, I was surprised to see that the Colvilles have it in regs that they can't shoot them.   I doubt they enforce it, but still......

I hunt with a big group of Colvilles during ML elk....... Great guys they are..... They don't speak much about the wolfs.... But let me know enough that they are taken care of properly.....   

[boneaddict]

I know kowsrule, and 80 percent of them have a gun with them at all times.

just that no one has reported them or no one is actively looking for them

LOL

[teanawayslayer]

looks like the cle elum ridge to me

[mallard79]

I was thinking cle elum ridge as well. My brother and his buddy saw lots of tracks down along the river during turkey season......

[fishunt247]

This is a truly sad issue. Having known the Teanaway since 2007 when I moved to Ellensburg, this is disheartening at best. Since a great number of the Teanaway deer and elk herd winter lower in the drainage near farms, houses, and towns like Cle Elum and Liberty, I don't suspect it will be long that until these sightings become frequent. Once a person gets hurt or killed (though it is terrible that the wolf issue may come to that), we as hunters may see a favorable turn in wolf legislation. Until then, we can only hope that one or two of the rifle shots during the modern season are not aimed at a deer or elk.

[UBA]

This is a truly sad issue. Having known the Teanaway since 2007 when I moved to Ellensburg, this is disheartening at best. Since a great number of the Teanaway deer and elk herd winter lower in the drainage near farms, houses, and towns like Cle Elum and Liberty, I don't suspect it will be long that until these sightings become frequent. Once a person gets hurt or killed (though it is terrible that the wolf issue may come to that), we as hunters may see a favorable turn in wolf legislation. Until then, we can only hope that one or two of the rifle shots during the modern season are not aimed at a deer or elk.

Yep yep

[dreamingbig]

The fed's will still care and I'd worry more about them than WDFW.
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Thanks.  Not worried.

[pjmcbride]

I wonder how many people on here scoffed at me when I said they were there over a year ago(hell, might ahve been two years ago now).  WITH collars on no less. Wow, glad to see they came out of the closet on this one.  NEXT........

  i remember when you said they were there .sorry about the dout ......

[danderson]

Three wolfs were spotted chasing a doe deer accross the road last week in the teanaway,  as reported in the upper kittitas county tribune, eyewitness by local family, article also noted that dna tests on the female collared this year was probally from the look-out pack. It wont be long before all the deer are ate up and these killers will move on to livestock, if the intent of wdfw is to whipe out a population of deer that live within a 1/4 mile of the valley floor there entire life, they will be pleased.

[hunterlady]

I am surprised to see that the map shows no sightings of wolves in the Southeast corner of the state.  I have seen track in the Tuccannon and have talked to several people who live and work in the Blues who have seen them.  I have observed wolves numerous times in Yellowstone and have even followed a pack after watching them kill a calf elk....so I know what their tracks look like. 

Like it or not...they are here! 

[elkcane]

Seen one just off Blewett's pass about 2 miles up from mineral springs clear back in about '94. So not overly surprised in he least. They will find the herds that end up down into private lands in the valley floor by the cle elum ridge for sure. That's where the food will be in winter

[CedarPants]

article also noted that dna tests on the female collared this year was probally from the look-out pack.

I just now caught this - do you happen to have a link to this article by chance?  Would be very interesting if they did in fact confirm this ....

[halflife65]

I am surprised to see that the map shows no sightings of wolves in the Southeast corner of the state.  I have seen track in the Tuccannon and have talked to several people who live and work in the Blues who have seen them.  I have observed wolves numerous times in Yellowstone and have even followed a pack after watching them kill a calf elk....so I know what their tracks look like. 

Like it or not...they are here!

Map was from '98.  I think that wolves have moved in there now (or no one reported them before '98, which may have been the case).  When did you see the tracks in the Tuccannon?