Wolves

[MinnesotaEric]

This may be the same one.
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I think you're right. Same animal.

 

[jack707]

A good wolf is a dead wolf

 

[jack707]

There's big wolf's in Canada and Alaska the wolf's in the Midwest are smaller but bigger then a coyote.

 

[toppop52]

It's funny, when they were telling us red wolves were extinct in NE NC, we saw them nearly every time we went coon hunting in the Dismal Swamp, or Hale's Lake area. That would have been 1968-72 time frame.

 

[teejk]

Wolves range in color brown/black is fairly common. The large male that I've been spotting is classical grey with brown and black guard hairs.

A couple of years ago it was estimated that we have over 2400 wolves in northern MN. The wolves are now messing with ranching operations, and given that our industry is really aimed at vacationers, having wolves roaming around is a really stupid idea when we logged two attacks on humans last summer.

Like bears they are highly territorial and when the population expands they are forced to find new territory. I'm guessing the Wisconsin population (estimated minimum at about 850 with a goal of 350) is found way south of the intended range. We have livestock and pet losses also and recently have started to reintroduce elk...the initial batch of them in our area had some wolf problems. There is legislation proposed to put management back into the hands of the state. I'm sure the Washington DC activists will be back if that happens.

 

[Zerk]

Some claim the wolves in WI have gotten down SE WI. Not sure if I believe that. Coyotes are becoming a problem, or are atleast getting more news after some pet attacks. One local official we just need to learn to live with the coyotes, nature, and all. I hope they run him out of town next election.

Some of the city people that move out of town, are against coyote hunting, until fluffy is attacked. I am not for making them extinct, but everyhting needs to be managed.

 

[teejk]

Some claim the wolves in WI have gotten down SE WI. Not sure if I believe that. Coyotes are becoming a problem, or are atleast getting more news after some pet attacks. One local official we just need to learn to live with the coyotes, nature, and all. I hope they run him out of town next election.

Some of the city people that move out of town, are against coyote hunting, until fluffy is attacked. I am not for making them extinct, but everyhting needs to be managed.

I dunno about how wide they have expanded their range. Many of them are collared and the DNR says they have a fairly good idea of the packs. I was turkey hunting in far southern Wisconsin a few years ago and I saw what I'm sure was wolf scat. It might have been merely "wandering". Around here they are mostly nocturnal but I have seen them when I head out to the turkey woods in the dark. As for the coyotes, they have been a problem for a long time. We still have a large group of hunters that do periodic hunts...with hide prices what they are I think those hunts are really an excuse to exercise the dogs and drink beer.

 

[3930dave]

I am not for making them extinct, but everyhting needs to be managed.

Wolves, or city-people ?

Rgds, D.

 

[ovrszd]

Wolves, or city-people ?

Rgds, D.

Dang it, I wish I would have said that.......

 

[3930dave]

Dang it, I wish I would have said that.......

On TBN, could be either/both....



Rgds, D.