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Very interesting article in Sept. issue of Beef magazine http://www.beefmagazine.com . I'm glad we don't have them here in Iowa yet :roll: ! It sounds like their numbers have gotten to the point where they need to be taken of the Endangered Species list.

I was wondering if anyone here have any first hand experience with wolves?
 
the DNR relocated some to the Stevens Forest area in southern iowa and they were tracking them with collars and radar.1 was hit by a car on HWY 65 near lucas as i was coming home from work late one night.watched them load it but it never made the papers.
one couldn't read and went over his boundry,it was returned to the forest, but wasn't breathing good.

i think they started with 6,haven't heard about the other 4.---this has been about 5 years ago.
these were the large Black Wolves they were tracking.
 
Great! :roll: Just what I need. I don't think they are protected so I bet the hunters will try to get one.

You'll think I'm full of B.S. but a few years ago cougars were being seen in this area. The DNR have denied releasing them. The Deer are so thick here. I have not seen one but know many people who have. I do know some hunters who have shot at a few. This was a few years back. I have not heard much of them lately. I have been told they can travel up to 50 mile radius.
 
All of you wolf hating people listen up. I am a rancher in southwestern Montana, and the reintroduction, thats right REINTRODUCTION of wolves to the northern Rocky Mountain region was the best thing that ever happened to me. I make more money now than I ever have because I take tourists on "wolf watching tours" for $100 a person, and I have about 20 people per week in the summer and about 10 people per week in the winter. That's $2000 a week in the summer and $1000 a week in the winter. And if you think that the elk are all gone then you aren't looking hard enough. The only thing that the wolves have done to em is scare them out of the open meadows and into the woods where they are hidden. My suggestion is to try and give tours because i make twice as much now as before. Think before you shoot.
 
Wolves are bad news for a true rancher. I personally do not allow do gooders or liberals on my land for any price.
 
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If this supposed rancher is really a rancher from SW Montana he is the first one I have heard of who likes wolves. The tourism angle was one used by those bunny huggers in favor of the reintroduction. I seriously doubt the 20 people a week at a $100 a head. When I was in Montana this summer it sure seemed to me that tourist traffic was way down from the past.

There is a county in Idaho where the county commisioners declared a state of emergency because of the wolves.
 
Another one post wonder that has earned the BS flag.

Dave have you heard any talk about introducing wolves in the mt. St. Helens area? My farrier who is out of Castle Rock told me about, but I have heard nothing about....nor have I searched.

Alan
 
Sounds like a transplanted bunny hugger wanna be to me too. Every "true" rancher up here will shoot them on sight.
To heck with the elk and deer we want to save our livestock.

It is easy to claim you are something on the internet when you are truly not. ;-) :nod:

Notice they said "All of you wolf hating people."
 
Alan,

I haven't heard anything about introducing them any where and I have pretty close contacts with some high ups at fish and game. They are sitting back and allowing natural movement to spread them. I do know that there are breeding pairs in the north cascades. Nothing but a lot of timber and three paved highways between them and the St Helens area. There are several breeding pairs in the northeast corner of Washington and some in the Blue Mountains (SE Wash-NE Ore). The way they are spreading across the west it is just a matter of time before you and I have the lovely critters to deal with.

One of the funny parts is there is a very small herd (40 head or so) of Woodland Cariboo in the NE corner of Wash. This is the only cariboo herd in the lower 48. Of course they are endangered and they have taken all kinds of steps to protect them. A friend of mine caught a pack of wolves on a game camera about 5 miles from the cariboo. I think those cariboo are really endangered now... maybe extinct by next spring. The fish and game people are really painted into a corner on this one. Do they shoot the endangered wolves to protect the endangered cariboo? Personally I think they will study the situation until the cariboo are all gone.
 
No worries, Dave, the people at fish and game have no problem re-introducing cariboo either. If the cariboo in your neck of the woods do die out it won't be because of wolves. Nature doesn't work that way(according to some people). Everything bad is always because of something that WE DID. :mrgreen:
 

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