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Posted on 08/28/2013 2:14:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A 16-year-old boy who fought off a rare apparent wolf attack in northern Minnesota says he won’t be sleeping outside anytime soon.
Noah Graham of Solway was camping on Lake Winnibigoshish with five friends last weekend. He told The Pioneer of Bemidji that he was talking with his girlfriend just before the animal chomped the back of his head early Saturday.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials think it’s the first documented serious-injury wolf attack on a human in Minnesota.
The paper points out that wolf attacks are rare. There have been two fatal wolf attacks in North America in the past decades, one in north Canada and the other in Alaska. …
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I saw a clip on the news today, with a ranger stating that the wolf had an “unusual jaw”, making it likely that it couldn’t hunt properly. Wolf was probably starving and desperate.
I remember something about that and also the wolf chasing the guy on the motorcycle.
If wolf numbers are allowed to keep increasing we’ll see more and more people in the outdoors attacked or harassed by wolves.
The states need to keep those wolf hunts going.
Took a group of out-of-state elk archery hunters from the Great Lakes region last week. They ended up calling in a pack of 17 wolves by elk cow calling. None of the hunters had a sidearm or wolf tag and it was a very traumatic experience.
Welcome to Idaho, guys. That elk call should have been labeled "Elk And Wolf Call" - sorry about that. You don't have to pay extra for the wolf part.
I recall a conversation I had with an "experienced" hiker last year who asked "you hike with a gun?" in a voice dripping with disdain. Yeah, I do. Because there are things out there that can eat me. That you put there. Thanks.
These imported Canadian timber wolves are much bigger than the original US wolves.
Canadian "MacKenzie Valley" wolf. 
The Idahoan antidote to the Canadian wolf. 
Thks for the belly laugh.
“Heck, you mean...”
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