Bounty On Wolves

[Colorado Luckydog]

Check this out!

http://www.9news.com/news/world/article.aspx?storyid=66770

[EKM]

That sounds like an interesting "hunt."

I wonder when they will start taking sign ups for "aerial gunners" down here in the lower 48?


Colorado, largest elk population in the world .... just waiting to become the largest wolf smorgas board in the lower 48. Some folksseem to becheering on the day that it will happen....

[Colorado Luckydog]

I keep on praying Colorado won't let that happen. Hpefully we can learn from whats happening in other states instead of learning the hard way. Colorado makes a ton of dough off of elk hunting every year and I don't think they want to loose it. I've been able to get my elk tag every single year for the last 10 years and I hope that doesn't go away!!!

[EKM]

"....I keep on praying Colorado won't let that happen."

I talked to the boys down at CDOW here in Denver, and they are just ga-ga at the prospect of havings wolves in the Colorado ecosystem....
a new specie to "manage," new research papers to be written and published, additional funds, career advancement....

Almost like, Hunters? Ranchers?.... We don't need no stinking hunters! Or ranchers for that matter.

Enjoy the "good old days" while they last, in the future you may not even be able to get an elk tag each year even as a Colorado resident, let alone bag an elk every year; certainly ifthe wolf factoris as devastating here as it has been in the famous Gardiner, Montana area, then hunters may become an unneeded component in herd management.

Oh, won't the "middle of the roaders" be crying then. No longer will Colorado provide the ultimate "safety valve" for throw-it-together, last-minute-planning, do it yourselfers (or guided hunters)wanting an impromtu elk hunt.... "just go to Colorado and buy over the counter licenses the day before the hunt".... nope. Ranchers with private land tags are gonna feel itand outfitters too.

You gotta give our opponents credit, they came up with a brilliant plan on the wolf reintroduction mechanism.
Osama came up with a brilliant plan for the 9/11 thing too.
Gotta respect the ingenuity of your opponents.
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I like the way these Alaskans think.
Now where do you sign up for that "aerial gunner" deal?
I'm thinking a AR-10 in 308.

[younggun308]

ORIGINAL: EKM



I like the way these Alaskans think.
Now where do you sign up for that "aerial gunner" deal?
I'm thinking a AR-10 in 308.

Nah, here's what you really need, a .270!

[MinnFinn]

EKM - Believe me the people who pull the strings to expand the wolf territory at federal and state level have NO concern what so ever for people in the current or soon to be wolf range.
For decades the concerns, losses and problems people in MN and Wisc. have dealt with while they experimented and "studied" wolves ignored people all together. Once you have wolves back in your state they will be there forever and it'll be a long hard fight for your state to even regain control over the legal right to manage them rather than the self-appointed "experts", enviro-whack jobs and federal courts.
But anyway... good luck!

[younggun308]

Here in TN, there's a place in the Smokey Mountains called "Kate's Cove", and they tried to introduce Red Wolves, but the wolves caught disease, and TWRA announced this introduction plan as a failure, and started a de-introduction of the Red Wolf population, buta few still survive to this day, but they'll never be able to make it back, they've become really shy of humans, and for good reason, and since Kate's Cove is a common tourist destination for viewing deer, bear, and turkey, they don't have many places to roam.