Wolves on endangered species list

[chevyracin8k]

This country is really a cream puff.. Wow, just wow. Back to sending them down the river or digging a hole.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/36...ed-species-list

[brushwolf]

What happened to "states' rights" and "managed harvests"?

Oh well, Big Brother knows best..

[fr0sty]

Before everyone gets out the torches and pitch forks, do we know what recourse the state has to appeal this ruling? Work the system people...

[Neighbor_guy]

Woulda liked to have a pelt for the wall... Guess not.... The life of one quickly and humanely killed wolf is more valuable than the lives of a dozen or more deer and moose calfs that are dissemboweled and killed horrifically.

Stinking lefty tree huggers can't seem to get out of their own ways.

Oh well.....

On a related note, have you seen the size of some of the giant mutant coyotes

[leech~~]

Woulda liked to have a pelt for the wall... Guess not.... The life of one quickly and humanely killed wolf is more valuable than the lives of a dozen or more deer and moose calfs that are dissemboweled and killed horrifically.

Stinking lefty tree huggers can't seem to get out of their own ways.

Oh well.....

On a related note, have you seen the size of some of the giant mutant coyotes

LIKE

[jigginjim]

On a related note, have you seen the size of some of the giant mutant coyotes .

It may go back to 3-S shot, shovel, and SHHHHHHH.

but that coyote has really grown eat all them other critters.

[O.T.C.]

I guess they haven't recovered enough yet, they haven't established in enough new counties. I think this seems obvious that Mr. Judge guy has family heavily in favor of stopping the hunt and the "isn't there anything you can do honey?" question came up.

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Its still early, I am hoping to see this get overturned

[O.T.C.]

Oh how the howlers would howl if we had a wolf hunting/ coyote tournament like they do in Idaho. They are allowed to kill 5 by weapon and 5 more by trapping year round I believe, maybe there's a season, google it. Idaho with much more variety on the wolf diet than we have are concerned about the prey species.

[Getanet]

I was just reading about that wolf tournament in Idaho. This was the second year that nobody was able to shoot a wolf - although it sounds like they were too high up to be in prime wolf territory. Sure sounds like there's a ton of controversy over a hunt/tournament that so far has killed zero wolves.

[O.T.C.]

To me it's one of the most bizarre things I've read or learned of. The talk of wolf numbers in the "lower 48 states" etc, yet Idaho has a free for all going on lol. 10 limit, they must care deeply for all of their hooved animals. We have 1 and a 1/4 hooved animals here and it's stop the hunt immediately ! The harvest this season was it 140K, add in what wolves took this year plus pregnant does and the harvest was quite good using 3,000 wolves as the number x 20 deer since they don't have many moose available, that's 60K deer figure maybe 10K fawns parish and the total harvest was 210,000 animals, that's quite the harvest.

[O.T.C.]

I'm a bored soul, a fresh hunting season isn't so so far away I guess. Ok, is the correct animal on the endangered list ? 2 years ago they underestimated the mt. Lion pop. In SD from about 230 animals to a whopping 303 animals. So the SD crew uped the quota to 100 lions or 70 females whichever occurs first. We have 10x the wolves and our cheesy quota's i think were set at was it 240 this last season? I don't think a dent in that wolf population was ever made as quickly as these quota's filled up. No wonder they filled them so fast. If we have 470 wolf packs in the state they're producing more pups than the harvest #. I would think they have a great shot at survival, what animal is taking on a 90 pound ears laid back willing to fight to the death wolf mother ? None. A bear would even ah it's not worth it. Heavens no don't wipe em out, no but the state needs to step up and have some sort of a way to scale them back a bit and collect data like they are; speaking of data what's been learned from them doing so to this point ? Anyone got any info on that ?