http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/04/30/cute-and-cuddly-vs-sometimes-cruel-mother-nature/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cute-and-cuddly-vs-sometimes-cruel-mother-nature Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/04/30/cute-and-cuddly-vs-sometimes-cruel-mother-nature/#comment-13448 Jim Richards Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:54:37 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=6193#comment-13448 I can just imagine a converstion between a kid and his grandpa at the zoo in a few years. Grandpa was there really elk like these in Idaho and Yellowstone park when you were young? I can just imagine a converstion between a kid and his grandpa at the zoo in a few years. Grandpa was there really elk like these in Idaho and Yellowstone park when you were young?

]]> http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/04/30/cute-and-cuddly-vs-sometimes-cruel-mother-nature/#comment-13447 GREG F FARBER Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:37:02 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=6193#comment-13447 At least we have photographic proof elk calves really once existed in our forests, a few still do but are rare, and as time goes on more rare..Obviously young elk are slow and weak...and tasty for wolves..Wolves left to their own devices will wipe out elk herds from the bottom up, calves first bulls second, and cows in the end..we are seeing it first hand in Idaho...and when prey is hard to find wolves then fight and kill each other and kill each others young..and eat themselves.. At least we have photographic proof elk calves really once existed in our forests, a few still do but are rare, and as time goes on more rare..Obviously young elk are slow and weak…and tasty for wolves..Wolves left to their own devices will wipe out elk herds from the bottom up, calves first bulls second, and cows in the end..we are seeing it first hand in Idaho…and when prey is hard to find wolves then fight and kill each other and kill each others young..and eat themselves..

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