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Quote ...I don't mind having wolves around, and there's absolutely no doubt that they had a part in honing the genetics of ungulate populations....Not sure how I feel about this. I don't want wolves extinct but I definitely want the *censored*s to pay for their management, surveys, and compensation to livestock owners. But since *censored*s are too cheap to open their wallet and pay for what they want, then we as hunters and trappers would be able to keep their population in the brink on the brink of extinction.
...I don't mind having wolves around, and there's absolutely no doubt that they had a part in honing the genetics of ungulate populations....
Lots of good thoughts by lots of smart people, but nobody really nailed what I want to know. So I must rephrase...How is it that with wolves living here for millenia that ungulate numbers were in the tens/hundreds of millions when white settlers arrived and not numbering in the thousands? For contemporary comparison consider consider the Lolo zone where elk numbers have gone from about 16,000 to about 2,000in about a decade.(?)
washelkhunter, where can I find the data that shows that there are "millions" more deer today than there has ever been on this continent? I don't trust Wikipedia since anyone can edit things on it.