Non-Typical Solutions Report post Posted August 30, 2017 Where have hunters lost access due to wolves? That will eventually happen in my mind......could be way off base, it just seems to be one of those little chink holes that is just another step away from no more hunting.......I know...hysteria setting in...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Non-Typical Solutions Report post Posted August 30, 2017 Kinda like what PineDonkey said about Big Lake Road........for those of us who really enjoyed that area, it ruined that stretch through there....way more traffic.....fast traffic..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elkaholic Report post Posted August 31, 2017 Mystic Hoooowwling of the wolves echoing thru the canyon - tourists delight and once in a lifetime opportunity lets go and hope to hear it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brian390 Report post Posted August 31, 2017 The wolves will end up taking your hunting tag if the idiots get their way. I'm starting to notice that stupidity is considered normal these days. I'm not in favor of looking over my shoulder while I'm hunting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattys281 Report post Posted August 31, 2017 Spoke to a gentleman this last weekend over in the white mountains who claims his friend, who is a rancher, had lost seventeen head of cattle last year to the wolves. The wolf people who are supposed to reimburse them have only paid for seven, claiming the other kills could not be confirmed as being from wolves. Apparently this is a common problem for people in the area, or so I was told. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattys281 Report post Posted August 31, 2017 And as a side note, I've been hunting right in the heart of one of the white mountain packs' home territory for about ten years now. Only seen them once. The notion of wolf safaris, photographers 'patterning' them, campers coming to hear them ho at night etc. is stupid. Wolves aren't rabbits, they don't hang out in the same 10 acre meadow night after night. They have huge ranges and will never be seen or heard by the people that love them so much. We also talked to a couple of g&f biologists on our last scouting trip that were trying to trap them to collar some of the cubs. After four or five days of running a baited trap line they still had not caught a single wolf. But yeah, I guess campers and hippie hikers are going to hear/see them every weekend and spend all kinds of money to come back to the area.... I do have to say that in spite of the wolves the deer and elk herds look really good over there. When I talked to the biologist he also said the coues and elk were doing great and the mulies were holding steady. This is attributed to the wallow fire clearing so much timber and creating great feed, not to the wolves. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azslim Report post Posted August 31, 2017 say goodbye to the deer herd 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jim Report post Posted August 31, 2017 If you read what the business's leaders want they say gray wolves. They are seeing wolves in yellowstone that have no fear of humans and feed out in the open so tourists can watch. Arizona wild country does not set up well for wolf viewing nor does this species of so called wolf/dogs that they are reintroducing. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
