Wolves

[KGAINES]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/opinion/...ref=todayspaper

[.270]

it was succesfull. per the usfws opinions anyway. goes to show you what real live "wild" animals can do. i don't think most sportsmen, cowboys, sheepherders, etc. would completely agree. what'd i read the other day, 80% of the moose in yellowstone have fallen to the wolves. something like that. deer, elk and bison have dropped way off too. not for sure what kind of effect they have had outside the park. it's sorta funny to me how the usfws and the huggers don't want em to be de-listed. wasn't the goal to get a stable bunch of self sufficient wolves? looks like it worked, and well. but now they still want to protect instead of manage. wonder what kinda line there will be for wolf tags? i'd like to shoot one. i have to agree, it has been a successfull reintroduction. take real live wild animals from one place and put em in another. not pen raised, part dog, mutts like these things we have here. but i still wonder about the effects. the area had gotten along quite well without em. sad to see anything wiped out. but i still don't know how i feel about it for sure. i know how i feel about these currs we have tho.

[coueschaser3]

From what i hear there is no wolves in the upper west...i.e. montana, idaho and the like, just overgrown coyotes.....dont ask me thats just what i heard.

[billrquimby]

From what i hear there is no wolves in the upper west...i.e. montana, idaho and the like, just overgrown coyotes.....dont ask me thats just what i heard.

 

Wrong.

[KGAINES]

I was told this was a wolf shot near Boise, Idaho, it doesn't look to have missed many meals.