RE: for all you wolf lovers
If you are an elk hunter wolves are not your friend.
I hunt iun Idaho where there is a pack of about 15 wolves living right in the middle of where we used to hunt elk.
There are too many wolves with no fear of man in Idaho.
They hang around our camps at night and harrass peoples live stock.
When we get up in the morning there are wolf tracks sometimes within 20 yards of our camp.
When we walk to our hunting areas we see fresh wolf tracks on the trails.
We hear them howling during the day.
We have seen them running in the meadow by our camp within 200 yards of us without a fear in the world.
The areas where we used to hunt elk have no elk now, they have all been pushed down into the steep rocky canyons. There are far less cow elk now and we have seen herds of bulls (5 or 6) running together during prime rut with no cows. Bulls with cows have 2 or 3 now , before the wolves they would have 10 to 15.
If you see elk you better go after them now because they will not be there tomorrow, all you will find is wolf tracks. The wolves keep them constantly moving.
On the winter ranges these wolves with no fear of man camp out in prime habitat and eat all the elk they can kill. There is nothing to keep them away.
A friend of mine while backpacking last year was followed and harrassed by a pack of wolves last year to the point he finally turned around and left not knowing what was going to happen it wasn't worth the risk.
These animals are not your family pet.
When they introduced the wolves here they talked about having maybe 100 wolves in Idaho. There are well over 400 officially and up to 600 unoffically in Idaho right now, with no hope of ever being able to control their numbers in sight.
This is going to get much worse before it gets better.