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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: UBA on July 08, 2011, 12:30:09 PM

Title: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: UBA on July 08, 2011, 12:30:09 PM: ? I don't think it will be much longer.
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: jackelope on July 08, 2011, 12:34:57 PM: Once they cross the road?
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: CedarPants on July 08, 2011, 12:37:02 PM: Depends on when the state loads up the next pickup and decides to drop them off there.

Ok I kid. It won't be long until they walk there on their own
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: jackelope on July 08, 2011, 12:39:36 PM: Quote from: CedarPants on July 08, 2011, 12:37:02 PM
Depends on when the state loads up the next pickup and decides to drop them off there.

Ok I kid. It won't be long until they walk there on their own

Yeah cuzz we all know they can't walk across a road or a state line.
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: CedarPants on July 08, 2011, 12:41:11 PM: Quote from: jackelope on July 08, 2011, 12:39:36 PM
Quote from: CedarPants on July 08, 2011, 12:37:02 PM
Depends on when the state loads up the next pickup and decides to drop them off there.

Ok I kid. It won't be long until they walk there on their own

Yeah cuzz we all know they can't walk across a road or a state line.

:chuckle:
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: str8meat on July 08, 2011, 09:42:29 PM: there already here. just not in abundance. i have seen em first hand in the back country. their here :bdid:
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: demontang on July 13, 2011, 07:22:37 AM: They have been here just not it large numbers yet. Ive heard friends talk about them for years and Ive seen sign and heard them myself will hunting early one morning in the dark :bash:
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: Raul Duke on July 13, 2011, 08:06:01 AM: Last winter, my buddy and I saw either a really healthey coyote, or it was a wolf on the rivier banks above Conrad Medows. We where on the stalk for a cow. So I didn't get a chance to look into it closer. :hunter:
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: PlateauNDN on July 13, 2011, 09:01:35 AM: Quote from: str8meat on July 08, 2011, 09:42:29 PM
there already here. just not in abundance. i have seen em first hand in the back country. their here :bdid:

:yeah:
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: Kowsrule30 on July 13, 2011, 02:58:30 PM: What units is everyone seeing them in??? Dad and I were ML elk hunting..... We decided to take a little nap on a sunny side ridge after we ate lunch..... For some reason I woke up and low and behold an all black coyte was sneaking along this game trail down 80 yds below.... I woke Dad up and told him to get ready.... Got my 8X range finder on him and said 150 Dad take him.... He was stopped with his front feet on a log staring into the timber 50 yds in front of him..... Picked up my binocs for the shot and right before Dad was about to squeeze off I told him not to shoot..... That ain't no yote!!! In my 8x42 Alpens he looked easily twice the size of a yote.... All black... Big head.... Then he headed into the timber... Within two minutes of that elk are busting out everywhere and I notched another spike tag.... We hiked down the same trail as the "black yote" and the tracks were huge as well.... We swear it was a wolf but no proof..... This was in 368 Cowichie..... Plus I've never seen a black yote before......
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: Killmore on July 13, 2011, 06:52:03 PM: I wonder if we already have a problem, right after we submitted our application back in may the game department says the herd is below their objective numbers. Makes one wonder!!
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: Killmore on July 13, 2011, 06:56:30 PM: and when the wolves show up at the feed stations every day to slaughter some elk i hope the wolf lovers are there to take credit for there contribution....
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: D-Rock425 on July 13, 2011, 08:32:35 PM: I think the bumping and Nile units already have a few.
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: wsucowboy on July 13, 2011, 09:39:22 PM: Quote from: D-Rock425 on July 13, 2011, 08:32:35 PM
I think the bumping and Nile units already have a few.
People have being seeing wolves in the Nile for the past couple years. They are out there just not as many as in other parts of the state.
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: rtspring on July 15, 2011, 02:58:22 PM: You don't have to wait any longer.

I have seen two wolves over the years in the Little Naches and I damn sure know the diffrence between a Coyote and Wolf.
I don't think there is an esablished pack yet, but there sure are some that travel through this area.
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: jackmaster on July 15, 2011, 03:16:38 PM: well i am far from a wolf expert so can someone tell me, when will they make it to the westside of the cascades say the south ranier or packwood areas?
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: wsucowboy on July 15, 2011, 06:48:21 PM: Quote from: jackmaster on July 15, 2011, 03:16:38 PM
well i am far from a wolf expert so can someone tell me, when will they make it to the westside of the cascades say the south ranier or packwood areas?
My dad and uncle saw a wolf up by packwood when they were archery elk hunting. This was back in the late 80's-early 90's but it wouldn't surprise me if there were a few still up there. :twocents:
Title: Re: How long til Yakima herd has it own wolf problem?
Post by: pjmcbride on July 19, 2011, 12:44:23 PM: i know of a guy that said he saw a wolf in unit 342 last year .till i see it my self .well i hope i can get a picture with the new binoc's this year. :dunno: