there were 5 incedents with deer hunters last fall where a half dozen wolves tracked the hunters right to there deer stand,some were so scared they will never come back.with the hard winter weve had there will be even less deer then what happens.we had a meeting in lancaster with leroy stumf,dave olin,elk problem and wolves.these people making all the rules just dont get it they figure out the number of wolves or elk that this state can handle from a desk,the number of wolves for mn. is 1,600 now its over 4,000 still not delisted they cant even follow there own rules and we all no what that extra 2,400 wolves are eating beef and it will be a human casuallty sad to say. but enough is enough they make us criminals its to bad they break there own rules cant follow there paper work on the numbers of wolves and arent held accountable so be it .these twenty two wolves here wont ever bother anybody again rules can be broken on both sides you can push rancher or farmers so far and its there

The people that have reported losses of livestock to the DNR do not get paid for most of thier losses, people that are stalked are ignored by DNR, even after articles are written in the paper. We here, know we are not really going to get compensation or protection. People here have lost faith in DNR, I believe they have stopped complaing to the DNR, and are doing what they need to do to survive on all levels. Remember beef are contained to fences feed corn, and are rolly polly fat, they wear out quick, unlike deer, that can run a half mile after being shot in the heart.

Allthough catching dogs in the open with the 700 RMK 151 at night is a hoot…BUMP HOWL hoot….

Wish I could see that game…no tell-a-lie-vision here no more though…I wonder if the Steelers get Screwed by the CARDINALS today….hey hey…

In the Marine Corps we use to call them “Targets of Opportunity!”

I’m headed up to a buddies place today to watch the Super Bowl…and he lives in the foothills of the Bitterroots…and like a good Marine…I’ll have my long range .308 Norma Mag ridin’ shotgun. You never know when a “Target of Opportunity” just might show up…as they have on occassion.

Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
Missoula, MT

Face it, the wolf is the end product of nearly a million years of evolution,,,and the end product is one of the most efficient killing machines on the face of the Earth.

I find it strange that with the wolf conspicuously absent for alomost all of the 1900s…deer and elk herds were brought back from near oblivion to, in some regions, record levels. Now that we have this bunch of several thousand imported Canadian mangey mongrels running through the Northern Rockies big game populations are beginning to take a serious down turn.

Wolves simply aren’t reading the script written for them by the idiots of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or by the likes of the “wildlife experts” of the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Earth Justice, or the two-faced Humane Society of the United States, and a few others. Wolves cannot peacefully coexist with all other living creatures – which they consider prey.

We are at the point where we must accept one fact, those who defend the wolf’s presence in the settled inter-mountain West are either ignorant or just plain stupid. Likewise, we have to accept that anything that comes from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, regarding wolf impact on “other native wildlife”, is probably a lie. In the same light, those of you who like to quote things from the Minnesota DNR need to talk to the sportsmen in those areas where some 3,000 wolves have pretty much free rein. You’ll get an entirely different story. Too much of what the MN DNR knows about “their wolves” is right out of their training manuals.

Here’s a thought…for those who want wolves, we should work toward keeping a viable population of about 100 wolves on each of our huge national parks – such as Glacier, Yellowstone, Olympic, Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, etc. and the size of those packs needs to be closely managed and culled to prevent total annihilation of the “other native wildlife” found in those parks. And then, if any of those wolves step across the boundary of those parks, they should be eliminated by anyone at any time. Now, that’s wolf control that most could live with – especially our elk and deer herds.

Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
Missoula, MT

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g If you want to start a Bible class Jes and I will direct you.

1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said: 2 “Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels [a] shouted for joy?
8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?