Wolves may have killed teacher ( Alaska )

adn ^ | March 10th, 2010 | JAMES HALPIN

[george76]

CHIGNIK: Police unsure whether death happened before, after bite.

Authorities were in an Alaska Peninsula village Tuesday investigating whether a 32-year-old schoolteacher, found dead off a road leading out of town, was killed in a wolf attack.

The body of Candice Berner of Slippery Rock, Pa., was discovered Monday evening off a roughly 7-mile gravel road leading to the Chignik Lake airstrip.

Berner's father, Bob Berner, reached in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, said Alaska State Troopers told the family their daughter had been killed in an "animal attack, possibly a wolf attack."

Local residents have been concerned about recent wolf activity in the area, but she probably didn't know that because she had just gotten to town...

Last September, a rabid wolf attacked a hunter along the Kuskokwim River near Kalskag, biting the man in his leg before being shot to death. The hunter lived.

In April 2000, a radio-collared wolf repeatedly bit a 6-year-old boy...

Then in July 2006, a wolf attacked a schoolteacher walking off the Dalton Highway...

[george76]

The frequency of these cases seems to have increased in the past decade

[Mobties]

Time to fire up the helicopter.

[rdl6989]

I thought wolves were shy of people.

[G Larry]

Somebody call Sarah and tell her there’s work to be done.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Another good reason to pack heat.

[rightwingextremist1776]

What these idiot greenie types forget is that there was a REASON wolfs and bears were driven out of contact with civilization....and now we get to pay the price of their stupidity

[Bigh4u2]

“Police unsure whether death happened before, after bite. “

Ok.. I’m no doctor (and I never played one on TV either),
But I’m pretty sure If I cut someone bad enough to kill them and they are alive, they will bleed profusely.

On the other hand, if they’re dead before I cut them, they won’t..

[Robe]

I used to enjoy long walks in the woods while stationed at NAS Kodiak, but never without my .375 Mag strapped on. And depending on the time of year something bigger on my shoulder

[Leisler]

"Those were primitive, uneducated frontier settlers, clinging to their bibles and guns and listen to talk radio and going to extremest web sites."

Janet Napolitano

[Leisler]

"Those were primitive, uneducated frontier settlers, clinging to their bibles and guns and listen to talk radio and going to extremest web sites."

Janet Napolitano

[DCBryan1]

Dude...thats as WRONG as two boys in the horizontal position.

[Pecos]

Maybe we could get the greenies to do a one-on-one census count of the wolves they re-introduced to Montana. I vote for them doing that by rubbing noses with the dear creatures.

Shoot, shovel, shut up.

[PIF]

“Maybe we could get the greenies to do a one-on-one census count of the wolves they re-introduced to Montana”, Wisconsin, Utah, Idaho, and Washington to name a few on the list - without sever culling, in the next 10 years wolf attacks on humans will become common place.

[elli1]

Unlimited wolf trapping is permitted in the area from Oct. 1 to April 30. Hunting regulations allow 10 wolves per person per day from Aug. 10 to May 25, said Fish and Game spokeswoman Jennifer Yuhas.

Apparently waaaay more wolves than there are hunters & trappers in the area.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Isn’t this how most vampire stories begin?:

[proud_yank]

I thought wolves were shy of people.

For the most part, they're pretty elusive. If food is scarce for them that can change though. Not far from where I live someone was walking their dog, and had a whole pack of them following her. They tried coming for her dog, and it got cut up a bit. She shouted, and sprayed bear spray in an arc towards them and got them to run off.

There are times when lots of peoples' dogs turn up missing, even closer to town. They have killed people, though it isn't too common.

[proud_yank]

They’re tough to hunt and trap.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Lefitsts love reintroducing predators back into civilized society. Wolves, bears, cougars, Muslims, criminals, thugs, presidents....

[Eska]

There have always been wolves killing people; why do you think they were exterminated in the first place?

I've had wolves follow my dogteam on trails then jump off trail soon as they seen me coming back towards them. I've seen wolves check me out from in the brush (30 yards) then take off. Most problems are with yearling wolves that are about starved. It's common for younger wolves that haven't developed the fear of humans to approach. We've had yearlings walk up our lane, sit down and look at my sled dogs who are about breaking their chains to kill the intruder. Actually, kinda cool to walk out on the porch and have a single wolf sitting 20 yards away; hungry, terrified, lonely, and just looking for a friend, ha. They have always trotted off after about a minute of wondering what I was. My son use to call them in at bus stop with a rabbit squealer in morning.

This incident is probably bear related and wolves just cleaning it up. I have seen grizz out and about in March and they are real hungry then. Very few people go outside with some kind of sidearm this time of year thru early summer. It has been above zero, been cutting birch for nx winter, have the 460 on my belt; just common sense. Some people like this poor lady teacher lack it; running down the road looks pretty stimulating to predators.

F&G has heli wolf control on order soon as we get new snow in my area. They want to clean out 80% I think, but never will attain that. Still if they kill a 100; it sure helps the moose from going extinct. They estimate 4-5 hundred in my area, but probably more.

If they would only bring back bounties, they rural people would start snaring them. Gas is 6-8 bucks a gal here; snowmachines get around 10mpg. Quite expensive.