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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: bearpaw on February 19, 2014, 01:37:29 PM

Title: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: bearpaw on February 19, 2014, 01:37:29 PM: NE WASHINGTON
It's wolf central anymore, everybody in NE Washington has a wolf story nowadays.

Latest word on the street:

- Wolves chased a bowhunter up a tree near Chewelah in December, wolves circled the man for several hours howling (story posted on H-W)
- Another bowhunter 121 Huckleberry late season had almost no deer on his place after the wolves moved in, all he saw was wolf tracks and scat
- Shed hunters found bull moose kill in 121 Huckleberry with wolf sign all around
- Wolves chased a man to his vehicle near Hunters in 121 Huckleberry (story posted on H-W)
- 2 wolves have been shot but nobody is saying who (might be one of them that WDFW is investigating)
- 1 wolf has been run over on the highway, nobody taking claim for that either
- 2 wolves hanging out on the fringes of the town of Ione in GMU 111
- 1 collared wolf living near Colville, border of GMU's 108-111, regularly seen around homes, local barnyard, might be in heat seeking farm dogs

I'm sure there's more stories that I haven't heard yet. These stories are going to become commonplace in more areas of WA as wolves spread.
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: jackmaster on February 19, 2014, 02:33:25 PM: I still say they need to trailer a few in Olympia, be pretty awesome if they chase that coward of a govenor of ours around the capital awhile, maybe even take a chunk out of his hinny :tup:
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: Gringo31 on February 19, 2014, 02:36:27 PM: Sorry to say it but this shouldn't surprise anyone.

We know what wolves do

We know how quickly they can increase in numbers

We know it will suck and that our state doesn't care.

We just can't get used to this being "normal". :twocents:
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: skeeter 20i on February 19, 2014, 03:25:29 PM: You can add the two wolves that we saw in 117.
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: woodswalker on February 19, 2014, 03:45:10 PM: and 3 seen in 336...
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: wolfbait on February 19, 2014, 06:12:37 PM: In 2004, wolves went after a wood cutter moving a tree out of the road in the spring, he said he saw seven. 2009 wolves followed a women pushing her new baby down the county road, she got to a house, and later said she would never do it again. Hershey had an encounter also, with wolves prey testing. There have been many incidents of wolves following people, it's just a matter of time before there is an encounter like the Alaskan school teacher had a few years ago. And as wolves become more habitual with their prey hanging out in town and around peoples homes for protection, the dangers become problematic.
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: wence5 on February 20, 2014, 12:31:30 PM: aren't these encounters what the huggers want, to keep hunters, hikers, campers, ranchers, etc. out of the forests? :dunno: I see one encounter listed with some dispatched wolves? Note the WDFW is investigating, and I'm sure they will everything they can to burn down the perps if caught.
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on February 20, 2014, 12:58:19 PM: I watched the Skagit County Commissioners Meeting the other night ..Supposedly someone in Anacortes WA has a rehab center for predators ..Nothing but a bunch of tree huggers showed up whining about the poor little bobcat and the wolves ...One guy stated there has not been any reporting of anyone being attacked in 100 yrs from a wolves ...Birrrrrrrrrr Dirrrrrrrrrrrrrr :dunno: Maybe because they have been extinct :dunno: :stup: :yeah: I think there is another meeting coming up about it ...I may need to show up and :stirthepot: a little ! Hopefully someday I have a story to tell :dunno: :chuckle: about how a bullet hit one in the head !!! :yike: :hello:
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: timberfaller on March 19, 2014, 10:09:00 AM: As there are a lot of Hoaxsters in the Climate change arena, The Hoaxsters in the Wolf arena always bring up "no one has been attacked and killed by wolves in over a hundred years" :yike:

Tell's me one thing about these clowns, THEY have never READ "documented" history about wolf attacks and killings of humans!!
Title: Re: Everybody has a wolf story these days!
Post by: flatbkman on March 20, 2014, 06:35:20 AM: Not saying that the guy didn't deserve being dumped in the woods, but didn't the people who beat him ever hear that wolves are nice, cuddly animals, and would never hurt a person?