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Offline Turner89

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Re: Cattle Missing, possibility increasing for hunting wolves in Washington?
« Reply #45 on: December 31, 2011, 10:53:04 PM »
McIrvins
I know they pulled their cattle out a while back, they just had the big cattlemens meeting in Colville and went public with all this info. These people are the biggest cattle producers in the county, and Bill is an outdoorsman with some of the best hounds around, they know what they are doing in the mountains. I can remember years hearing they were upset over losing a few cattle to cougars and bear, they have never lost 27 head before that I have heard. Bill says there is wolf scat all over the place full of cattle hair. I trust he knows scat better than most WDFW employees.

Breeding Pair
To qualify as a breeding pair, a pair of wolves must mate and have at least two surviving pups at the end of the year for three years in a row. If they miss a year, the way I understand it, they don't count. Don't matter how many wolves are in an area, this is the critieria for a breeding pair.

The Catch
We are all dependent on the WDFW. This has to be proven by WDFW and at the rate they are trapping wolves we will probably have 100 actual bp's before they confirm 15 bp's for 3 years in a row. :twocents:
That is rediculous!  If there is that much wolf activity in that area it would make sense to trail cam the sheet out of it. Like someone else had mentioned. If enough pictures were produced, and with the publicity from local media and local public officials it would (you think) force the WDF to pretend they care.
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Re: Cattle Missing, possibility increasing for hunting wolves in Washington?
« Reply #46 on: December 31, 2011, 11:12:09 PM »
I think that's the idea, WDFW Endangered Species Division is looking pretty inept if you ask me....
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