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Title: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: JuryRig on April 10, 2012, 03:15:04 PM: Shed hunters are blamed for chasing elk from winter feeding area near Ellensburg:

http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/news/shed-antler-hunting-creates-concerns/article_7bbd7da8-8015-11e1-b8cf-0019bb2963f4.html

Letter to the editor blames wolves:

http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/opinion/letter-state-using-shed-hunters-being-used-as-scapegoats/article_786c6f94-8351-11e1-840b-0019bb2963f4.html

Anyone have first hand knowledge of wolves in Joe Watt/Taneum Area?
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: hirshey on April 10, 2012, 03:39:47 PM: Don't they have that area pretty well monitored with game cameras? Seems like they should be able to verify for themselves whether it was a person or critter. :dunno:
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on April 10, 2012, 03:48:44 PM: You would think they would Hirshey at least around the feedin station in the area they want them to winter undisturbed. Theyre gonna have to find something to blame the wolf kills on. So they don't look so ignorant.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: buglebuster on April 10, 2012, 04:32:07 PM: Even if they have pics of wolves there, do you think the wdfw would actually admit it?
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: hirshey on April 10, 2012, 08:58:18 PM: Quote from: buglebuster on April 10, 2012, 04:32:07 PM
Even if they have pics of wolves there, do you think the wdfw would actually admit it?
That's why I'm skeptical of it being shed hunters.. Because they wouldn't have a problem confirming a trespasser.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: cem3434 on April 10, 2012, 09:13:35 PM: Quote from: hirshey on April 10, 2012, 08:58:18 PM
Quote from: buglebuster on April 10, 2012, 04:32:07 PM
Even if they have pics of wolves there, do you think the wdfw would actually admit it?
That's why I'm skeptical of it being shed hunters.. Because they wouldn't have a problem confirming a trespasser.
:yeah:
If it was people, then WDFW would know.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: Pinetar on April 10, 2012, 11:25:03 PM: Give me a break, the Elk didn't blow out of the feed and go clear down to the Heart K for the day because of antler hunters. The Elk are use to the people sneaking around in the Watt feed lot, they have been doing this for years, why do you think no one finds many antlers in there on May 1st.

I know Sam Kayser personally and if he says there were wolf tracks in the area, you can BANK on it.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on April 11, 2012, 07:28:39 AM: Quote from: buglebuster on April 10, 2012, 04:32:07 PM
Even if they have pics of wolves there, do you think the wdfw would actually admit it?
probably. they have been "admitting it" everywhere else.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: KFhunter on April 11, 2012, 08:43:32 PM: ya, but did you see the chick who's the area director for that area?

can you say wolf hugger? She'd find humanure a perfect match for dinner discussions.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on April 11, 2012, 09:03:05 PM: The editorial wasn't bad until the author mentioned that the WDFW was introducing wolves...
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: seth30 on April 11, 2012, 09:46:17 PM: come on now we all know it was hybrids, real wolves would never harass healthy elk :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: groundhog on April 12, 2012, 06:40:19 AM: I got an email this morning with pictures. More wolf tracks were found in the Joe Watt /Taneum area. Anyone that does not believe it was wolves that spooked the elk is not being realistic. It is nice to know that we have a wolf lover as a manager for the LT Murray. :bash:
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on April 12, 2012, 06:47:55 AM: Quote from: groundhog on April 12, 2012, 06:40:19 AM
I got an email this morning with pictures. More wolf tracks were found in the Joe Watt /Taneum area. Anyone that does not believe it was wolves that spooked the elk is not being realistic. It is nice to know that we have a wolf lover as a manager for the LT Murray. :bash:
share the pictures with the manager- maybe he doesn't know about them. Just because he has problems with illegal shed hunters doesn't make him a "wolf lover"...
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: Pinetar on April 12, 2012, 07:28:10 AM: He is a she and her name is Shana. If you open up the first attachment in this post where she is blaming shed hunters you will see the picture of her beautiful wolves she has on her office wall. You can meet her and see it in person if you come to Eburg. She knows about the wolves that came through the lot and still blames it on shed hunters spooking the Elk. I'm sure antler hunters do spook Elk but they don't run them miles from the lot.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: Shed Stud on April 12, 2012, 07:34:08 AM: It was just a matter of time before the WOLVES discoverd the FEED station. From now on they will just be feeding wolves there.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: Sporting_Man on April 12, 2012, 10:41:07 AM: If all the evidence is as stated here, she made a fool of herself, with such acusations... This attitude makes wolves more of the problem than they really are/will be...
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: JimmyHoffa on April 12, 2012, 11:28:19 AM: Is this a new pack? Or are these the wolves that were killing sheep and attacking sheep dogs near E-burg last year?
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: KFhunter on April 12, 2012, 11:11:24 PM: Quote from: WAcoyotehunter on April 12, 2012, 06:47:55 AM
Quote from: groundhog on April 12, 2012, 06:40:19 AM
I got an email this morning with pictures. More wolf tracks were found in the Joe Watt /Taneum area. Anyone that does not believe it was wolves that spooked the elk is not being realistic. It is nice to know that we have a wolf lover as a manager for the LT Murray. :bash:
share the pictures with the manager- maybe he doesn't know about them. Just because he has problems with illegal shed hunters doesn't make him a "wolf lover"...

I dunnno - you can decided for yourself

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Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: 75johndeere on April 13, 2012, 05:52:57 AM: Nice and the one above that is a cougar someone likes predators more than the elk

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Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on April 13, 2012, 06:16:54 AM: A bunch of regular 007's. You would have a hayday in my house, since I have a cougar print and coyote on the wall... a real predator lover. Maybe you should stop by and try to have a reasonable conversation before jumping to conclusions.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: danderson on April 13, 2012, 06:27:30 AM: I have a feeling that the Daily Record is responsible for what seemed like an attic on shed hunters entering the closed area, the paper has a long history of poor journalistic habits like embellishing on a story and inputting there own personal opinions into a story, small town politics run this paper. I have been a subscriber for close to 30 years just for the entertainment value :chuckle:
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: Special T on April 13, 2012, 01:59:06 PM: I agree Wacoyotehunter that a pic on thewall does not mean they are a wolf lover.
That said you didn't think that wolves were going to be such a big deal, and that we should take a "wait and see" attitude towards them. :twocents:
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: PlateauNDN on April 13, 2012, 02:20:20 PM: :yike:So a pic on a wall makes someone a wolf lover and advocate of one. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: I got some pics of wolves at my house, I have a shirt with a nice looking wolf, my kids go to the Wapato school district and their mascot is the wolves, my mother-in-law has a 3 series picture frame of a pack of wolves and wolves have culture values within my Tribe so does that make me a wolf lover tree hugger? No, it doesn't, I respect the wolf for it's culture values within our Tribe but do not support the amount at which the State wants to see in it's return because they will do more harm than good in my opinion and should be closely controlled if they want them here.

I'll withhold judgement on this person until I've had a talk with them and then I will make my own choice as to their stance on the issues.

Though I do agree that it's probably wolves chasing the elk around and not shed hunters.
Title: Re: Shed hunters or wolves?
Post by: Killmore on April 14, 2012, 08:01:42 AM: If Sam Kayser Say's there's 6 Set's of wolf tracks then you know darn well she knows about them, Why the big secret..