State Wild life biologists (at the meetings) claim wolves only kill the old and weak animals. Well that's true, but in a deer yard most all the animals by January and February are inweakened condition. So they claim the wolves help the herd. As if I believe them.

Some of the loggers I have talked to claim they see some very large deer taken by wolves in deer yards. Friends and I hiked to a yard many winters ago, and found eight deer killed and partially consumed. I am sure the wolves come back as they need the food, as do the fox, fisher, pine marten, weasels, and ravens. We walked within 50 yards of deer and they would not even stand up out of the snow to move away.

One winter we were on snowmobile and about 20 miles into the national on the groomed trails. And in the trail was a spiked bullelk. And he decided he was not leaving that trail. So he walked down the trail and we followed at a good distance until he found a place he wanted to leave the snowmobile trail. All I kept thinking is.. someone coming the other way will come flying around and smack right into that elk.

Actually we get some monster bucks in this country. They are way back in the Chequamegon Nicole National Forest and they do wander out once in a while and some lucky slob shoots one.