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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: bearpaw on February 23, 2012, 08:46:34 PM

Title: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: bearpaw on February 23, 2012, 08:46:34 PM: I will have to add the photos that my friend found today with my phone. These are fresh tracks, it snowed this morning, 4 adults traveling together in high remote country, Northport side (eastside) of GMU 105.
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on February 23, 2012, 08:55:41 PM: Hopefully there is red snow in the next photos! :chuckle:
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: JimmyHoffa on February 23, 2012, 09:07:19 PM: Quote from: HUNTINCOUPLE on February 23, 2012, 08:55:41 PM
Hopefully there is red snow in the next photos! :chuckle:
There probably is....from a deer or an elk. :sry:
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: Cleve on February 23, 2012, 09:13:30 PM: I don't believe those are Wolf tracks. Looks like swamp gas or a weather balloon :chuckle:
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: high country on February 23, 2012, 09:28:09 PM: Did you get one.....there were 5
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: bearpaw on February 23, 2012, 09:35:36 PM: I think the 5 are on the westside where McIrvins lost all the cattle.

There was 6 on the eastside and I think these 4 are now what's remaining of the previous 6. These 4 will likely become about 10 come spring. :bash:
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: 400out on February 23, 2012, 09:37:40 PM: Thats sad!!!!!! But true :bash:
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: NWBREW on February 24, 2012, 01:56:27 AM: Well dang. Now I have to make a trip over to check my cams. On a side note, A guy I work with has a son that was hunting cats in Idaho and his partner took a HUGE white/gray wolf. I'm telling you this thing was HUGE. It was wieghed by fish and game. I was asked not to post anything more than that.....it is going to featured in a upcoming magazine. Dale, you may have heard about it. Killed somewhere up by the St.Joe I believe.
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: villageidiot on February 25, 2012, 05:37:13 PM: This can't be true because I heard personally about 6 weeks ago the McIrvins claiming they had cattle killed and then the official Dona Luers from WDFW came on in the interview and said they can't have wolves because the closest pack is over 100 miles away. So these can't be wolf tracks according to the expert WDFW people. Although, I did do some research and found an article in the Spokesman Reveiw from 2007 about the first calf killed in the state was at the McIrvin Ranch and it was confirmed and they got compensation. Seems the experts need to at least check their own data before they start making statements that make them look _______________(fill in the blank).

Authority does not give one Credibility
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: bearpaw on February 25, 2012, 05:47:46 PM: Quote from: villageidiot on February 25, 2012, 05:37:13 PM
This can't be true because I heard personally about 6 weeks ago the McIrvins claiming they had cattle killed and then the official Dona Luers from WDFW came on in the interview and said they can't have wolves because the closest pack is over 100 miles away. So these can't be wolf tracks according to the expert WDFW people. Although, I did do some research and found an article in the Spokesman Reveiw from 2007 about the first calf killed in the state was at the McIrvin Ranch and it was confirmed and they got compensation. Seems the experts need to at least check their own data before they start making statements that make them look _______________(fill in the blank).

Authority does not give one Credibility

There is a trail cam photo of a wolf in GMU 105 in the Wolf Count Topic. The state does not have a clue as to how many wolves they have. :chuckle:
Title: Re: 4 More NE WA Wolves in GMU 105 (big tracks)
Post by: bearpaw on February 25, 2012, 05:51:20 PM: Photo of 1 wolf on the west side near McIrvins and a photo of 1 wolf on the eastside near Northport. Not to mention the dozens of people who have seen wolves in that unit.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=79244.255