Comments on: Wolves: When Ignorance Is Bliss

By: Harley

Harley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:15:30 +0000

I’m realizing I’m about 2 months behind on the particular subject. Not sure if I should repost this elsewhere…

By: Harley

Harley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:09:19 +0000

Ok, I have a question. If wolves are these eating machines, why did they not wipe out the moose on Isle Royale? The one thing that did cut down, drastically, on the moose population was a nasty infestation of ticks. Cut the moose population in half. It had nothing to do with the wolves. I don’t know if it’s just… those wolves on Isle Royale, maybe smaller than the ones you all are talking about wiping out the elk herds and such? I don’t know, this is an honest question, not a challenge to your information. i’m just curious.

By: Keith Lunders

Keith Lunders — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:19:00 +0000

As a 33 year pre and post wolf resident of a tiny north central Idaho town (Elk River), I can tell city-dwelling readers that the impact of wolves on our game populations has been catastrophic. Having destroyed what was once the largest elk herd in the US they are now moving in around every town/city in the region (where the remaining game is concentrated) and attacks on domestic pets are becoming much more frequent. Cattlemen have their own long list of horror stories of wolf predation on their stock, most of which they are never compensated for. Perhaps when wolves start carrying off the Cadillacs and swimming pools of city residents they’ll identify with their rural brethren, the ones who produce the food they eat.
I could write a book of hair-raising wolf encounters I’ve heard from local hunters but so far as I know there’ve been no actual attacks on humans. Given the scarcity of native wildlife it’s just a matter of time before we read or experience such an event. What has been documented is that wolves have been observed scoping out humans, as in schoolchildren waiting for their bus. Wolves have changed completely the rural lifestyle synonymous with the west.
Probably even more devastating to the human population of the Pacific Northwest is the idiotic contamination of an entire ecosystem with a heretofor unknown and deadly parasite (hydatid disease) spread primarily by wolves. Now that it’s established it will be here forever, being carried and spread by ungulates, carnivores, pets, etc. Depending on where it takes up residence in a human it can be more than an inconvenience, the end result being an autopsy.
One can only imagine the righteous indignation and outrage that would rise like a mushroom cloud over the population centers of this country if massive numbers of plague-carrying rats were dumped in them. And rats wouldn’t be the equivalent of what’s been dumped into Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and is spreading fast into adjacent states as undisturbed wolves expand their territory. It would be poetic justice if they made their way to Seattle, San Fransisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, etc., all areas where they once roamed freely too. Would do wonders for their homeless problem.

By: Greg Farber

Greg Farber — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:31:19 +0000

Big bad wolves have a history to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans

By: Greg Farber

Greg Farber — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:30:54 +0000

To funny, Canada and Russia, as well Italy and other European countries, Have a couple centuries of experience with wolves, Satanic Disney (Walt Disney was a porno freak) land has 15 years.. Val Geist predicted these American mistakes would be made in the 1970s.. ha ha, the tripe is this American science which is infiltrated with lies stacked up on top of other lies.. The worship of the communist godless dog (SIRIUS) is fascinating to watch.. Oh well, it’ll all crash soon and these wimps will starve to death..I hope they enjoy chewing on advanced degree stupidity..

By: jes

jes — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:46:44 +0000

No, he doesn’t live with wolves….he lives with his Disneyland version of what he thinks the world should be like (for wolves)….and expects you to live with it.
I’d like to see his weaselly ass out with a hungry pack, and watch his version of “myths” flash before his eyes…

By: Mikel

Mikel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:27:30 +0000

John,
Do you live with wolves?

By: John Holmgren

John Holmgren — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:50:10 +0000

Valerius Geist?? A world renowned authority? His tale speaks for itself–talk about bad science! I rarely get a chance to waste my time reading such tripe. The big bad wolf strikes again–a few people buy into it and perpetuate the myths.

By: jes

jes — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:14:02 +0000

Yeah, Dave, man really screws it up….sometimes….And given the freedom to eat their fill of caribou, as they were in olden times eating their fill of buffalo, in this country, there would be no problem with letting nature take it’s course…For harsh winters, and migrating lifestyles will even the score..

But we are not talking about the workings of nature in a sheep pen, for that is practically what we have with the game and wolves in national parks, and something akin to suburbia where man has settled, even in the remote parts of our country…At least when it comes down to the ancient lifestyles of the herds of elk, buffalo and the like.. Man has already “interfered”…..and it is up to him to keep it in order…

And what difference does it make when the wolves have decimated the herds? For if man is not there to judge or be effected…And as the game is eaten, the wolves starve, and the procession begins again…once again, less wolves, once again, more game….But where man lives, he creates his own “balance”, and his concern creates the problems or the answers…

By: Jim Richards

Jim Richards — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:18:09 +0000

I agree man screwed up when they reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone in 94.