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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: jstone on October 14, 2019, 05:20:00 PM

Title: Wolves and there habits
Post by: jstone on October 14, 2019, 05:20:00 PM: Well long story short. Went back to our old hunting area in Idaho this last week. Used to see big bucks and deer. Saw 3 does in 3 days. Covered many many miles and elevation on foot. There are wolves in the area. Neighbor camp heard them at night and I saw tracks. So they put a hurting on the area deer.
So I am looking at any information that I can on wolves and there behavior. Territory range. Do they den up in the same area?
Do you know of any good articles that will teach me there habits.

Thank you
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: Tracker0721 on October 14, 2019, 05:22:18 PM: Sorry about the hunt, the wolves seem to be ruining Idaho, mind if I PM you about the location? I’m getting a wolf tag in November and will be trying my hand at wolf calling.
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: jstone on October 14, 2019, 05:46:53 PM: Sure
The deer population is bad in my old location anyway
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: greenhead_killer on October 14, 2019, 06:46:29 PM: I’m curious too. Was in the teanaway today and for the first time heard them howling this morning. Three different wolves about a mile from where I was hunting. What do the game animals do when in wolf areas? Do the wolves stay there permanently? Or they move around (their dens) I know they are fairly nomadic in general but maintain a home base. Wondering if I need to move areas
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: Russ McDonald on October 15, 2019, 03:57:41 AM: Growing up in MN wolves would follow the deer population. When there deer pain was up lots of wolves. When they took the deer popuation down they would go north into Canada.

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Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: Skyvalhunter on October 15, 2019, 06:10:19 AM: Problem is MN loves their wolves, we are talking one state with one of the highest populations.
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: pianoman9701 on October 15, 2019, 07:01:23 AM: Quote from: jstone on October 14, 2019, 05:20:00 PM
Well long story short. Went back to our old hunting area in Idaho this last week. Used to see big bucks and deer. Saw 3 does in 3 days. Covered many many miles and elevation on foot. There are wolves in the area. Neighbor camp heard them at night and I saw tracks. So they put a hurting on the area deer.
So I am looking at any information that I can on wolves and there behavior. Territory range. Do they den up in the same area?
Do you know of any good articles that will teach me there habits.

Thank you

The Real Wolf is a very informative book about wolf behavior. It's possible, though, that you want to find more information about deer and their behavior living around wolves. I'm certainly not saying wolves aren't the problem because I don't think we need them. However, the elk and deer in a wolf-heavy area will change their habits, find different habitat, may go higher or into thicker stuff. You saw does, so there are deer around. Go over some maps of the area. Hunt some ridges. Find some heavy cover. :twocents:
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: nwwanderer on October 15, 2019, 08:12:40 AM: Read the Yellowstone wolf studies, excellent background. Throw in cattle and sheep plus all of the stuff that goes with them and wolf behavior predictions pretty much move like the wolves, far and wide.
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: Russ McDonald on October 16, 2019, 06:24:23 AM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on October 15, 2019, 06:10:19 AM
Problem is MN loves their wolves, we are talking one state with one of the highest populations.
MN has had seasons for wolves and working on starting them back up again.
Title: Re: Wolves and there habits
Post by: Skyvalhunter on October 16, 2019, 07:17:32 AM: HAD is the key word. When the population is that high hunting of wolves cannot effectively control the population. We are talking in excess of 2500