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The last time I checked, humans were at the top of the food chain. Deer, Elk, Antelope, etc are game animals and wolf season would be year-round if I had my way. There are wolves in the Davis Lake area where I hunt. Wildlife cannot be managed with emotions.I don't think much about them at all. From what I understand, which isn't much, there are very few wolves in the state in the first place. They're listed as endangered in all but the most eastern reaches of the state, so hunting them isn't a concern I have. Frankly, I don't have a desire to hunt wolves or coyotes or anything that I won't eat for that matter. Leave them alone, and they'll leave you alone.
The deer, elk, and other prey animals are more rightfully the wolves' than ours to harvest. As to them being a nuisance to ranchers, I say that's part of the assumption of risk when you're in that business.
What line of work are you in Fairweather 91?I don't think much about them at all. From what I understand, which isn't much, there are very few wolves in the state in the first place. They're listed as endangered in all but the most eastern reaches of the state, so hunting them isn't a concern I have. Frankly, I don't have a desire to hunt wolves or coyotes or anything that I won't eat for that matter. Leave them alone, and they'll leave you alone.
The deer, elk, and other prey animals are more rightfully the wolves' than ours to harvest. As to them being a nuisance to ranchers, I say that's part of the assumption of risk when you're in that business.
This is true and I believe I read one time they are some sort of a cross between the timberwolf and some sort of larger, and more aggressive Canadian variety.It is my understanding that the wolves that have been "re-introduced" are not ones that were native to this part of the world....
Let them loose on the rioters first.If introducing wolves to Oregon works out anything like introducing Turkeys has, we are in for major disruption.
My dream is that a pack of wolves moves into Portland and starts eating the homeless. Watch the politicians and media squirm as they try to balance that out!
Very interesting.....
I don't have a "dog in the fight" per se, since I don't hunt, but I have to wonder about this. A coworker made a similar statement regarding wolves a while back, something along the lines that "They were here first". It sounds right, but why? Why would it be right? I don't think it is. Like RVTECH says, man is just as much a part of nature as wolves are.The deer, elk, and other prey animals are more rightfully the wolves' than ours to harvest.
If they were 'reintroduced', and require ongoing, 'artificial' maintenance then they weren't 'here first' - obviously."They were here first". It sounds right, but it's not.
Bovine Fecal Matter!If they were 'reintroduced', and require ongoing, 'artificial' maintenance then they weren't 'here first' - obviously.
You only have to look at the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone to see the beneficial effect that wolves have on the wildlife there.There is NO rational or logic to 'reintroduce' an animal that not only has been gone for a long time, and has no effect on the environment being gone - but this doesn't matter to the average camp follower hippy, liberal, dirt worshiping 'environmentalists'
People are working on this. I think it is not a bad idea. I've read that some people have seen wild bison in the Blue mountains? I personally would take up hunting again to get a chance at taking a good bison, and would love to have the meat.I say let's "reintroduce" bison so that the wolves have something else to eat other than the dwindling #s of elk and deer. and of course, a wild bison hunt would be a plus.