Posted on 02/21/2008 9:58:41 AM PST by george76
A sled dog tour operator in the Interior village of Bettles said wolves have killed and eaten two of his sled dogs in the past two weeks, continuing what has been a statewide trend this winter.
“They drug them right out of their collars,” Max Hanst said by phone Tuesday from the village 180 miles north of Fairbanks. “The most recent one was three nights ago. I lost another one six days before that.”
Three days prior to the first attack, Hanst said he shot and killed an old, emaciated wolf trying to dig its way into a puppy pen.
“I think the ones getting the dogs are healthy wolves,” ...
“They were good dogs,” Hanst said.
Similar wolf attacks on dogs have been reported and documented in both Fairbanks and Anchorage earlier this winter.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsminer.com ...
Wolves having a hard go at it with all the global cooling this winter...
I love dogs ... sad for the dogs.
Wolves are dangerous...should be shot on sight.
wolves, when they lose their fear of man they have to be dealt with.
For some odd reason this story reminds me of illegals.
“It definitely kind of puts us in a position to start getting pretty aggressive trying to take those wolves,” he said.
Perhaps they should have already gotten aggressive from the stories of the wolf problem in that area.
My crazy, liberal sister in Anchorage will point to this as more evidence of gloabal warming....Sigh!!
Tell her that this is evidence of a lack of hunting.
City liberals from the lower 48 fund these eco-nuts who limit state organized wolf hunting.
Don’t know if I can post an article from the Missoulian. But you can find this related one here:
www.outdoorpressroom.com
First ever: Montana announces wolf-hunting season
That decision to delist also is expected to be litigated, which could tie up the matter in court, meaning wolves might not actually be hunted for years.
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/02/21/news/local/news03.txt
Northern Rockies gray wolves delisted
By JOHN CRAMER of the Missoulian
Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies no longer need protection under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday.
Federal protection for the region’s wolves, which were hunted to near extinction by the 1930s, will end in late March.
Conservation groups vowed to take legal action to keep wolves under federal protection, saying the region’s wolf population has not fully recovered and the states’ management plans, which would allow wolf hunting, would jeopardize their survival.
The Canadian wolves introduced into the area weigh 120+ lbs. The native wolves that once roamed Idaho weighed 45-60 lbs.
Idaho alone has upward of 1200 wolves...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1963624/posts?page=103#103
But you know, F&G started a grizz bait station hunt in our area and I have 10 buckets of fish guts, ready to hang in trees along the road outta here, where I can check them with bino's. I hear grizz hides are going for 800; wait and see I guess come spring. Actually the bear are hurting the moose as much as old wolf.
Alaskans like having the wolf around, but don't want numbers to get outta whack.
Conservation groups vowed to take legal action to keep wolves under federal protection, saying the region’s wolf population has not fully recovered and the states’ management plans, which would allow wolf hunting, would jeopardize their survival.”
The eco-freaks will not be happy until the grizzlies and wolves outnumber all the human population on earth, and then it will be grizzlies vs wolves.
I’m good friends with an older native guy who grew up out in the bush, hauling water & wood, cutting and building small cabins to live in. He used to guide for a friend of his who ran a remote outfit.
He said that any time wolves came after their horses, it was the biggest and strongest they’d take. Often times, they’d just kill them or only eat a tiny bit off the animal.
He has spent his time in the woods, and is one I’d call ‘wise’- always enjoyable to hear what he has to say.
I don’t know many people at all who support completely eradicating a predatory species, and often the thinking of those who do is as goofy and irrational as those who don’t want any hunts on wolves/predators.
I’d say there are far more on the left side of that aisle, but for both groups their passion to the subject seems inversely proportional to the amount of knowledge they have on it.
The ecos are using these predator introductions as way to bankrupt family ranchers.
The livestock margins on smaller operations are often very small.
Then the family gets kicked off their land thru foreclosure and the American food supply has fewer grass feed meat.
Feed lots juice up their cows with sugar beets, grains, growth hormones, and tons of other drugs.
Rural, hard working, independent minded people get pushed into city apartments where their kids become more dependent on the government than on their own selves.
Not to mention all the regulations and price controls farmers & ranchers have been hit with.
‘Big agri-business’ is one that liberals love to moan & wail about, but its soon going to be the only thing left that will have the posibility to weather their stupid policies.
Better yet, turn them loose unarmed in wolf country.
These idealists forget that people are harmed. Of course, they'd be happy if the human population were 10% of what it is today. That way the natural balance would be restored.
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