Wolf Issues!

skeet · #1 01-30-2011, 11:17 PM

Fabs..people have been controlling the elk deer etc herds for a long time. When the deer started to go awry in Md they upped the limit on deer. The herds are out of control in Md mainly in the areas where they can't be hunted or where landowners do not allow hunting..Like the Loch Raven area north of Baltimore. The people liked seeing the deer in the area till they ate everything edible around their houses.. I have seen the area with a browse line at 6 ft. The wolves are a different problem. If you had seen this area esp Yellowstone 15 yrs ago you would understand. Wolves were here. They didn't need to be (re) introduced...and the protection accorded the animals has hurt game and nongame species in this area to an unbelievable level. It is a matter of governmental control(of people) by listing the wolf as an endangered species..not a necessity to protect protect the wolves. It would be almost impossible to wipe out the wolf in today's environment. They were hunted with gun trap and poison for 2 centuries and not eliminated..That could not(and should not) happen now. But the rules that we have to live under now are detrimental to other animals..ranchers hunters and even hikers. Seems as though the gummit thinks that the wolf is much more important than people. Mismanagement is abysmal from either side of the coin....and the rules we have now are mismanagement big time.

Rapier · #2 01-31-2011, 01:09 PM

I can not understand your concern. I mean Susie Q Jones of PETA in her NY, NY 5th floor apartment swears that wolves are OK for you to live with. I am sure she has talked to each and every wolf and they all understand the difference between your grand child and a deer fawn. She has everything under control.

I want Susie Q Jones and her sister from Washington DC to come to my farm and help me with the training of my untreated canines. Then when they get their skinny tree hugging collective butt down here they can tell me what to do about safe guarding my family on my property, right after their first night outside playing with the doggies. They get a fly swatter, a pork-chop necklace, and the night shift with no matches. I will spell them in the morning.
Ed

Catfish · #3 01-31-2011, 06:32 PM

I definately understand what Skeet said about loveing nature and likeing to see all animals around. We don`t have wolfes in Ohio yet, but a few years back some beaver move into the creek in my bottom. I watched them that summer, but when we went to shell the corn and had put abt. 10 acures of corn under water I desided it was time for them to go. I can see where wolves could be alot worse.

fabsroman · #4 01-31-2011, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

I definately understand what Skeet said about loveing nature and likeing to see all animals around. We don`t have wolfes in Ohio yet, but a few years back some beaver move into the creek in my bottom. I watched them that summer, but when we went to shell the corn and had put abt. 10 acures of corn under water I desided it was time for them to go. I can see where wolves could be alot worse.

Yeah, 10 acres of corn under water does not compare to being killed by wolves, or worse yet, having your wife and kids killed by wolves. I'd take the beavers over wolves any day of the year. Skeet is right about them having to have healthy respect for humans, and fear is great too.