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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: DaveBTS on December 26, 2012, 07:24:01 PM

Title: Toutle wolves
Post by: DaveBTS on December 26, 2012, 07:24:01 PM: I had a friend tell me tonight they saw wolves in the Toutle unit during elk season.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: Jason on December 26, 2012, 07:26:27 PM: We had two guys on our crew see them there four years ago on the 5500.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: DaveBTS on December 26, 2012, 07:41:43 PM: I saw sign when I hunted the Mosquito Meadows area years ago. It's possible the pack could've expanded/moved. I heard they were putting some in the Loowit & coast range too.

If WDFW wants to kill all of the game, just make the hunting season 12 months long.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: lokidog on December 26, 2012, 07:59:11 PM: WDFW says they are dog/wolf hybrids from what I understand, shoot 'em all.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: skywalker253 on December 27, 2012, 10:44:50 PM: I think they are planting them. Kinda funny how the wolves are being seen in GMUs, which host plenty of deer and elk.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: DaveBTS on December 28, 2012, 07:18:59 PM: I got an email from Rep. Ed Orcutt, who serves on the Natural Resources committee. He's helped me on several projects. According to him, WDFW has not dropped any wolves in the area.

I guess they're unclassified wildlife. Shoot on sight.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: Skywagon_185 on December 28, 2012, 07:45:01 PM: Two good fiends who have been in the woods all their lives saw a black wolf in the upper Fossil area 2 years ago while picking huckleberrys. On the S Toutle side of the divide. They are both lifetime woodsmen and know their s***. I have no doubt about their sighting.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: TheHunt on December 28, 2012, 07:56:05 PM: I saw one when I was in there this summer.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: blacktail chaser on January 03, 2013, 09:29:12 PM: I saw some tracks in the winston on Tuesday that were way bigger than any coyote. We put a 30-06 shell in the track, it fit inside of it easily. :yike:
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: h2ofowlr on January 03, 2013, 09:34:12 PM: Quote from: DaveBTS on December 28, 2012, 07:18:59 PM
I got an email from Rep. Ed Orcutt, who serves on the Natural Resources committee. He's helped me on several projects. According to him, WDFW has not dropped any wolves in the area.

I guess they're unclassified wildlife. Shoot on sight.

Maybe excess off spring from Wolf Haven in Tacoma. Their are wolfs in the area, whether they want to let the public know or not. We ran into them two years ago in the mudflow.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: Hunter Dug on January 04, 2013, 09:07:06 AM: They'll have plenty of elk to eat with half the population with hoof rot. Maybe they think that is the cure too weed out the lame.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: Roundhead on January 04, 2013, 06:17:04 PM: I like to see a few loggers post their sightings.
They are on these roads all year round and should see the wolves, if any.
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: bearmanric on January 05, 2013, 09:58:21 AM: Wolfhaven is in Tenino. I live next to them. They have been very active there lots of Trucks and rigs. Rick
Title: Re: Toutle wolves
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 05, 2013, 03:16:17 PM: Quote from: bearmanric on January 05, 2013, 09:58:21 AM
Wolfhaven is in Tenino. I live next to them. They have been very active there lots of Trucks and rigs. Rick

Sounds like a good way to test the wolf howlers :chuckle: