It’s gonna be up to us to take care of our elk and deer herds. I was up hiking on some property I own a couple of weekends ago. Elk and deer winter there every year. Last weekend we saw 46 head of elk in two different herds. Out of the 46 head we saw 2 bulls, a spike and rag horn 5 and 44 cows. Not one single calf. The elk looked good and healthy but wouldn’t you think out of 44 cows that there should of been at least one calf. We’ve been seeing wolf sign up there for the last three years and since then things have sure changed. Ordering some 115 gr. hollow points for the 7-mag, should be a good varmint round.
http://blackbearblog MikeL
After watching the video again it sure looks like most of those elk are in pretty good shape. None of he game looks to be weak and sick.
George
I have posted up in other places with my position that I wish the wolves had not been re-introduced. Seems to me the knitwits that pushed for this need to be made miserable. Alas, until we all get good an fed up with it to the point we are willing to unify in one voice and yank a knot in our Govt’s rears, they will continue to ignore us and do as they see fit, saying anything, including lies out of convenience to tell us individually what we want to hear, yet continue on with their agenda.
I heard a quote not long ago, an outdoor television host remarked that “A little anarchy now and then is good for a democracy”. Perhaps that is what it will take.
There’s another quote from our Upper Peninsula Michigan thoughts on wolves: The three S’s…Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup.
Personally, I have no problem with the wolf, but if he gives me a problem, he will only do it once.
If Rabies spreads into the wolves, then what?
Just to put this into perspective: A dog in the inner city running loose, if it so much as approaches a human being, it’s automatically killed by police, or captured and euthanized as a vicious animal. I’ll be damned if the Government or any other wildlife agency is going to tell me a wolf is allowed to attack, stalk, growl, snarl, or kill my livestock or pets yet it’s open season on a domestic stray dog.
Come to think of it, I recall a Tennessee Police Officer killing a golden retriever right in front of it’s family, kids included,on a bad traffic stop, (they stopped a station wagon matching a description from a recent robbery) the dog jumped out of the car as the family had been ordered out of the vehicle at gunpoint, and the video clearly showed the dog passively approaching the officer tail wagging, and it was shot dead.
I saw another news video of a 6ft plus, over 200# police officer bend over at the waist and at point blank range shoot a 12 pound yap yap dog in the head claiming it was vicious because it was barking and he feared dogs. This AGAIN done in front of family and children that owned the dog, on their own property. I know for fact that idiot is still empoloyed and was promoted after that incident.
These werent even strays!
So tell me how the wolf ranks higher in the food chain? In MIchigan we have to call our DNR for a problem Wolf. With our budget, getting ahold of them after hours and weekends isnt happening. You get the state police when they have an officer available. The Troops aint goin in the woods after no wolf.
http://blackbearblog MikeL
Went hiking today up on my place, saw elk, deer, and moose. Found 3 beds with blood frm a young moose that had been hit by a wolf, only saw one wolf track around the beds, quite a bit of blood in each of the 3 beds, the moose was not dragging any legs but seemed almost to be blowing blood like maybe fom a nose injury or the mouth, followed the blood trail for about a 1/2 mile and never ran outof blood, I ran out of enegy, let my snowshoes in the truck or could of gone farther. I imagine I’ll start seeing the gut birds up there this week sometime, then maybe I can figure out what happened. No wolf tracks following the moose, just around the beds. Maybe they just wound em till they are sick and weak. You seen this before Greg?
Greg Farber
Yes a bull elk once, he lasted a couple days with is nose ripped off and then finally they caught up to him again and hamstrung one hind and got him down..But a strong healthy moose might take some fighting if the wolves are one or two, they get sick quick this time of year, thats why it has always been illegal for humans to pressure them in winter because exerting energy to run from you or I kills em in a few days..Kinda silly isn’t it, I wonder why these gooberment clowns never thought of that problem.. Elk need dry grounds of the low prairie in winter so they can feed then running won’t kill em..Just like the old days before all these damn towns were here..Combine weakness, starving, then forced to run means death.. The only critter seems to be standing up to these bastards is the Buffalo, Buffalo don’t run from wolves.. I got a mule out here I doubt would either, He would rather stomp em…buggers never bother jake for some reason.. I got my crew bunched up by the house, the wolves are starting to crowd us here…
http://blackbearblog MikeL
Greg,
Just think of how many calves and fawns are aborted this tme of year when the wolves ar chasing them for the hell of it. Those numbers never end up in the statistics of how much a wolf kills. I noticed today all the animals I saw were as nervous as a whore i church, never seen em so spookie before. Damn dogs anyway.
Greg Farber
The wolf program is ingenious if you are an occupier of others lands and for those on the lands in support of it then we have mental retardation at its finest. Backwards thought, our industrial out put is low, our money is low, our food stocks are low, our available renewable wild game is low.. we are divided, moral is low.. decadence is every where, damn wolves, and damn humans dressed in sheeps clothing- but inside they are ravening lunatic wolves themselves… Tom’s and Steve’s payment plan on a trillion bucks- are those dolts in D.C. really this stupid, or are they planning something which don’t include us…our vote, our thoughts,get ignored. Mixing Church and state is a mistake…The Old general Patton would be amused at the attack and occupy strategy of the Environmentalist power grab…the Green Meanies..and their damn wolf hybrid dog mix….and other U.N. Agend 21 subterfuge and dececration of the Declaration of Independence, those 12 Amendments of Natural Rights… Which the Anti-Federalists fought for from 1787-1792, forcing with support from the populance writing to their editors at local New Rags of the day demanding Natural Rights, and finally those Constitutional Federalists gave in, their scheme of a central government exposed, even then…to the Bill Of Rights…Now we stand idly about while they ruin it all…
“Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.” —-Konnilyn G. Feig —
The only thing I have left is a bullet for a wolf… And my backside to those thugs and their duped following…F*##k em… Super Shot Shovel…and Grin
Bill Fisher
Our Alaska Chapter of SCI spent thousands to support the professional managemnt of predators including wolves and brown bear. The Green Gestopo tried to prevent Dept of F and G from a predator control program in areas of the State where the wolves and bears were killing 95% of the caribou and moose calves in vast areas of western and north central Alaska. We were sucessful keeping predator management out of the ballot box and in the hands of F&G professionals. Maybe the Federal Goverment needs Sara Palin in charge of the entire USF&W and EPA programs in the US. In 4 year maybe we will have better luck.
For now, a lot of Canadian First Nations people have lost a major source of funding by preventing US hunters from importing polar bear trophies to the US.
http://blackbear MikeL
Here’s an update of what some friends of mine found this weekend horn huntin. Not to far from the town of Pinehurst, Idaho. Sat. one group found a spike bull ass eaten out nothing else taken, same group saw a decent size bull draggin a leg and coat all mangled bleedin from the ass and mouth, nose etc. but he was still going as best he could. The other group huntin horns on a different ridge about 600 yards away found two dead cows ass eaten out and nothing else. Greg, I ended up workin al weekend so I couldn’t get up on my place to check out the yearling moose that the wolves had wounded, gut birds are still flying over the same ridge though so I hope I can get up after work this week sometime.
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I am a freelance writer and researcher and I publish the Black Bear Blog and other websites associated with Skinny Moose Media and...