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With the speedy confirmation of the Smackout Pack I was optimistic that the WDFW was possibly learning to take the public seriously and work with them to confirm these packs ......
I don't know how many cameras, but I do hope they get some photos. Unless they get photos, I think they will try to brush it off as nothing.The Region 1 manager was trying to say it might have been coyotes and he wanted to know why I copied the message to so many people before the WDFW had a chance to check it out.
I would need to check, but I don't think you can shoot a wolf in Washington unless it is self defense.
Think the WDFW would get mad if they came to work one Monday and found 5 wolf pelts and an SD card with video of them attacking livestock or dogs on their front stoop?
seth, wolves as well as coyotes, are adaptive.everything that has been studied of the wolves has been done in a very wild area or park, where human interaction is at a minimum. the current crop of predatory wolves introduced have to learn to get by on less abundant food sources and that means they need to head to th nearest light and there will be food there. this is a non issue in yellowstone where they have full time hazers to keep camps free of invasive predators. alaska has large herds of animals and the wolves can follow them with reasonable success. here in the areas affected we have much smaller herds, a large herd of elk may go 50 animals around me. compare that to the smaller herd sizes in alaksa and we are missing a comma or two. the simple answer is that there is no answer as to what wolves will do. they have a strong predatory instinct, and I feel they do not like to be around people, but given that we have dropped them into areas with low numbers of food for them, people will be the food source, be it their childern, pets or selves. it is noble that eco groups want to save the future of an animal that once roamed free here, but the landscape, climate, dispersment of humans increase of pets has taken the once home range of the wolves. to try to reintroduce them without ALL the original aspects of their successful existance is asking for trouble. there is a good reason our forefathers killed them off.