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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: gramps on July 08, 2020, 02:55:37 PM

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Post by: gramps on July 08, 2020, 02:55:37 PM: Track
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Post by: Sr15 on July 08, 2020, 05:07:13 PM: Here is my pic from last weekend....also in the blues
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Post by: wastickslinger on July 09, 2020, 03:57:31 AM: I have been getting them on trail camera for a few years. This last check I had one with collar. Guess WDFW does know they are there. Not just solo pics. full out packs!!! Stupid
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 09, 2020, 06:01:54 AM: Pics or it never happened
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Post by: trophyhunt on July 09, 2020, 06:27:44 AM: I had a wolf pup walk up by me 3 years ago, couldn't believe it. He was all by himself.
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Post by: wastickslinger on July 09, 2020, 10:50:10 PM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on July 09, 2020, 06:01:54 AM
Pics or it never happened

Oh it happened. And very often. Elk are in trouble
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Post by: Bango skank on July 09, 2020, 11:51:45 PM: Quote from: wastickslinger on July 09, 2020, 03:57:31 AM
I have been getting them on trail camera for a few years. This last check I had one with collar. Guess WDFW does know they are there. Not just solo pics. full out packs!!! Stupid

Wdfw has 4 confirmed packs listed in se wa, not like theyve been keeping it a secret.
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Post by: wastickslinger on July 10, 2020, 03:20:02 AM: Never a good sign when your cams go from over 1000 elk pics a month to 50. And almost daily bear, cougar, wolf pic.
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Post by: CackleBird98 on July 10, 2020, 05:02:39 AM: People are actually surprised there's wolves in the blues? The blues are infested with the suckers and it's only getting worse, last elk season, I saw 20 times more wolf tracks than deer and elk tracks combined. In an area that always holds game.
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Post by: gramps on July 10, 2020, 05:43:30 AM: Bango, Thanks for posting that...was going to also.

NE Or. has over 20 packs, 8 or 9 of which are close to the
border.

Oregon Data from December 2019
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Post by: nwwanderer on July 10, 2020, 06:21:25 AM: It is always amusing how the states little circles for packs stop at the state lines, political silliness at it's worst. Not going to 'manage' a critter that may move 500 miles or more that way. Stop spending money on them, give them the same status as a coyote, they will be fine.
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Post by: Slenk on July 10, 2020, 08:54:02 AM: The first wolves that I actually saw in the blues was in 2004. Out of Anatone.
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Post by: HighlandLofts on July 12, 2020, 08:06:12 AM: I like the different shaped borders the wolves are in and with in the state lines and all stop before the border which proves they know bounderies and don't migrate.
With that many wolf packs and the 6,500 cougars they say they have how can any kind of animal.still.be alive in Oregon.
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Post by: MtnMuley on July 12, 2020, 09:22:42 AM: WTF ever happened to their first wolf management plan after the Lookout was pack was documented that after 18 breeding pairs were present, we could start a wolf harvest plan? We're well beyond 18 and anybody who would argue were not, might as well nestle comfortably between Inslee and Durkin.
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on July 12, 2020, 09:52:18 AM: Yea you add Oregons 3 packs that roam across the border to the WA map and you see that what “used” to be one of the State’s premier Elk Trophy spots is now hunted by no less than SIX packs! 25/7 - 365 .
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Post by: wolfbait on July 13, 2020, 08:37:08 PM: Quote from: gramps on July 10, 2020, 05:43:30 AM
Bango, Thanks for posting that...was going to also.

NE Or. has over 20 packs, 8 or 9 of which are close to the
border.

Oregon Data from December 2019

The map represents most of WA, WDFW just refuse to confirm wolf packs etc..
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 02, 2020, 06:55:46 AM: Quote from: Magnum_Willys on July 12, 2020, 09:52:18 AM
Yea you add Oregons 3 packs that roam across the border to the WA map and you see that what “used” to be one of the State’s premier Elk Trophy spots is now hunted by no less than SIX packs! 25/7 - 365 .
I was really hoping some local justice would help keep them in check (check as in gone).