Originally Posted by
BigBuck95
I did not know that there was a wolf hunt in the state of Idaho this year. Personally, I disagree with wolf hunting. Isn't that how we got rid of them? WOLVES ARE GOOD!!! They keep the grazing animal populations like elk under control. Plus, one of the things that elk eat are aspen tree shoots when the plant is young. Since the introduction of wolves in Yellowstones Lamar valley, the aspen population has been reborn. Wolves equal a more healthy and more clean ecological environment. What wolves have done for Yellowstone, they will undoubtedly do for Idaho.
??? Ill never understand this type of thinking. Can you not see the difference between a controlled hunt and unregulated slaughtering? Not to mention most of the wolves original habitat was developed for human habitation, farming and livestock.
Yellowstone has no hunting BTW, so wolves may have some purpose there, but the problem is the wolves have extended their range way outside of YS and into elk range used by hunters which is bad news. Do you have any idea what a nightmare wolves in NYS would be????