Originally Posted by
Lunkerdog
I should add as a caveat that I come from wolf country, and don't see yotes very often... The last one I remember seeing was the Winter of 99. From any pics I've seen over the years show that yotes tend to have bigger ears, and a fox-like muzzle. Though I guess the ears could be a regional thing as well... Being larger the farther South you go.
Many years back me and a buddy were fishing up in N.MN and needed a place to camp in between fishing lakes. So we drove up some dead end road in the National Forest. Did not want to drag out the tent as it was dark so we were going to sleep out in the open. Then, about 2AM or so these wolves start howling and it seemed like they were about 50 or 100 yds away! I slept (or tried to sleep) in the car. I will never forget that sound! Where I live now I have never heard that howl, but hear a lot of coyotes yipping - seems that wolves like big woods, not woods chopped up by farm fields as it is by us. Or perhaps there is a lot of SSS going on with the farmers that own those fields. But I hear tales of wolves from neighbors, even though I have not heard one in 19 years.