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Title: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: motg9_6 on March 13, 2013, 11:50:26 AM
my brother works up there and was told the tribe is monitering some wolves anybody know more about this???  herd one is collared but not positive.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 13, 2013, 11:55:03 AM
I have heard of biologists going in and howling trying to locate some. So someone thinks there is some in there. It would not suprise me at all.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on March 13, 2013, 11:56:41 AM
Hopefully they are monitoring with a high power rifle with at least a two mile minute of angle accuracy!
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: firefighter4607 on March 13, 2013, 12:13:10 PM
I have heard a couple cattle ranchers have seen a pair in the Simcoes while they were gathering up their cows. This was a couple years ago.   :bash:
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: elkoholic1 on March 13, 2013, 12:24:40 PM
Hopefully they are monitoring with a high power rifle with at least a two mile minute of angle accuracy!



 :yeah:
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: motg9_6 on March 13, 2013, 12:27:32 PM
i will clarify alittle more on the location, east of 97 between toppenish and bickelton. i know people have been seeeing them coming down in to bickelton.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: kevinlisa06 on March 14, 2013, 08:27:41 PM
Seen Wolves up in the Ewe Neck out of Tampico this last Elk season. Had one at 65 yards broadside.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: Northway on March 19, 2013, 08:58:59 AM
I have heard a couple cattle ranchers have seen a pair in the Simcoes while they were gathering up their cows. This was a couple years ago.   :bash:

There are guys that use allotments within the southern part of the rez for summer range. One of them might have enough pull with tribal officials to get confirmation on whether or not this is accurate.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: boneaddict on March 19, 2013, 09:04:37 AM
A tribal member that I know that works for wildlife with the tribe is monitoring seven of them somewhere on Satus.   He is quite reliable in my book.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: Northway on March 19, 2013, 09:14:03 AM
A tribal member that I know that works for wildlife with the tribe is monitoring seven of them somewhere on Satus.   He is quite reliable in my book.

I would be shocked if this is true. Seven assumes they bred successfully for 1 or even 2 years. I would have thought there'd be more info coming through the grapevine if that was the case.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: teanawayslayer on March 19, 2013, 09:32:11 AM
Hopefully they like horse.  :chuckle: Give the deer and elk a break
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: Wazukie on March 19, 2013, 09:36:18 AM
They have been seen west of 97 also.  I was told this last weekend that the WDFW has confirmed this but can no documentation of it.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: Bluemoon on March 19, 2013, 09:40:14 AM
They have been there years.  I saw my first one  S.E of Fort Simcoe back in the mid 80's. 
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: Northway on March 19, 2013, 09:42:34 AM
Hopefully they like horse.  :chuckle: Give the deer and elk a break

I've really wondered about that. There are so many horses on that reservation you would think a number of predators could survive just on the carrion alone.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: boneaddict on March 19, 2013, 10:16:42 AM
I think they like antelope instead
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: PlateauNDN on March 19, 2013, 10:36:16 AM
They've been here for a longtime its just that an abbreviation that starts with an S is more prevalent and used by quite a few hunters that tend to do that sort of thing, hypothetically speaking of course.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: gaddy on March 19, 2013, 10:48:53 AM
so you are saying that there have been more "Sightings" in the area than are acknowledged by the powers that be ?
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: bearpaw on March 19, 2013, 11:19:28 AM
Please help get wolf legislation passed. This is an important step in the right dirtection, ACTION NEEDED TODAY.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,121109.msg1597573.html#msg1597573 (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,121109.msg1597573.html#msg1597573)
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: boneaddict on March 20, 2013, 04:45:00 AM
so you are saying that there have been more "Sightings" in the area than are acknowledged by the powers that be ?

If I remember right, two or three were shot and killed in the Tieton this last fall during elk season.   
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: motg9_6 on March 20, 2013, 05:32:42 AM
A tribal member that I know that works for wildlife with the tribe is monitoring seven of them somewhere on Satus.   He is quite reliable in my book.
same info i got
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: motg9_6 on March 20, 2013, 05:35:19 AM
Hopefully they like horse.  :chuckle: Give the deer and elk a break
horses run in herds and are really protective of each other i doubt they dent the horse population at all. so maybe when all the deer and elk are gone the horses will move off the res and we can hunt them...?? horse steak anyone????
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on March 20, 2013, 06:28:58 AM
Wolf =wolves everywhere  :yike: :hunter: :mor:
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: 6x6in6 on March 20, 2013, 10:16:21 AM
what is "the tieton"?
A river that drains into the Naches River west of Naches.  Bone is generally referring to the Tieton drainage in his post.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: motg9_6 on March 20, 2013, 10:58:47 AM
I sure and hell hope they like horses.  Having a bunch in the athanum now is not a good thing.  Expect the deer and elk numbers to decrease with the damn horses around. 

You Indians should shoot the horses.

they do just not enough
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: whitey on March 20, 2013, 11:20:22 AM
Hopefully they like horse.  :chuckle: Give the deer and elk a break
horses run in herds and are really protective of each other i doubt they dent the horse population at all. so maybe when all the deer and elk are gone the horses will move off the res and we can hunt them...?? horse steak anyone????

Bon Appétit
 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: yakimarcher on March 20, 2013, 12:00:50 PM
I heard a rumor last fall that a wolf was shot up near darland mountain, which is damn near the northern border of the rez, and i've heard of several sightings in the nile and cowichie units so I have no doubt that there are wolves on the Yakima Reservation
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: summit creek on May 13, 2013, 08:12:22 PM
my brother works up there and was told the tribe is monitering some wolves anybody know more about this???  herd one is collared but not positive.
if any one can wipe em out they can
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: Timberstalker on May 13, 2013, 09:18:15 PM
I have been up on the Yakima Indian Reservation over the last 3 years while working for the Yakama Nation.  I have seen numerous tracks that were identified by Yakama Nation Tribal Fish and Game as " Large Canine Tracks, Inconsistent with that of a Coyote.  Take that for what it is worth.  I know what it means.

One of my crew members saw one in 2011.  He knows wolves.  He has hunted them in Idaho and he lives in Montana. 

We all know they are on the Reservation and have been for many years.  Unfortunately WDFW nor Tribal Fish and Game will admit to this.
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: 20 Minutes on May 14, 2013, 12:17:50 AM
Seen Wolves up in the Ewe Neck out of Tampico this last Elk season. Had one at 65 yards broadside.

Next time shoot! Thanks in advance...
Title: Re: wolves on the yakima reservation
Post by: dinker on May 24, 2013, 08:38:26 AM
Hopefully they like horse.  :chuckle: Give the deer and elk a break

 wolves kill just to kill some times my buddy when over to idaho for a hunting trip and saw a bunch of dead elk
and barley any meat gone from most of them and he saw wolf sign all over 
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