More on wolves

[Skyline]

None of this should have been unexpected. Sadly, when the packs get up into numbers like 9-18, nothing is safe. I have seen big packs like that take down a perfectly healthy 4 or 5 year old bull moose and virtually consume the entire animal in one night...........I am not fabricating this. I have seen it.

I have a hard time biting my tongue when hunters, who know nothing about wolves beyond what they see on TV, rear up in righteous indignation about the wolf and his role in the ecosystem. Eco-systems they do not live in and know nothing about beyond what they have seen in the media.

The World Wildlife Fund, Friends of Animals and others like them, have done a very good job.....they even have some of our own believing the crap they spew.

Completely protecting the wolves simply dooms the local wildlife populations to a cycle of drastic highs and lows. In some places the game may never recover and this has been seen in several caribou herds in central British Columbia where the herds declined rapidly due to wolf predation and have never come back. There are so few caribou spread over such a vast area that they will never return to their former numbers.

Some wolves are a good thing.......too many are not. In the end, you can have some wolves and hunting or lots of wolves and little or no hunting.

If I lived where you guys do and the big game numbers dropped to low levels, which required severe cuts in the draws, etc. The first thing I would demand is a severe cut in non-resident hunter allocations, because after all the residents who live there and pay taxes should get first crack at the game. Only then will some of the non-resident armchair wolf biologists start to pay attention......when it affects them personally.