Wolves in Mass
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Wolves in Mass
I don't know if anyone saw this article in the Boston Globe....
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/03/first_wolf_foun.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/03/first_wolf_foun.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
#3
RE: Wolves in Mass
I have been waiting to see if anyone would post it, as it was in the Bangor Daily News 2 days ago. They said they thought it might of traveled down threw Western Maine and into Mass from there some how. The problem is we do not have wolves in Maine. At least that is what they say. Also keep an eye out for coyotes growing larger than normal as up here they said coyotes have been breeding with wolves.. They said earlier that wolves in Maine would not last as they can not stop the 2 from breeding..
#5
RE: Wolves in Mass
I saw a link about this on Field & Stream.com, they said that they had migrated down through Vermont and Northern NY from Canada. This seems plausible, but there have been rumors for years about NY state Dept. of Environmental Conservation releasing wolves and mountain lions, so who knows.
#7
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Allston MA USA
Posts: 533
RE: Wolves in Mass
This is old news that re-surfaced, I guess cuz DNA results are back.
There is something wrong with this picture though. Reports have it killing but not eating?? And also, wolves are pack animals, strange to see one alone so far from realwolf territory.
The source of this animal is suspect...
There is something wrong with this picture though. Reports have it killing but not eating?? And also, wolves are pack animals, strange to see one alone so far from realwolf territory.
The source of this animal is suspect...
#8
RE: Wolves in Mass
Dna tests and the like all says it is a wild one. Where ever it came from no one knows? 2 has been killed in maine, 1 by a hunter in Western Maine and the other by a trapper in a trap in Eastern Maine. As a rule though we do not have any though except for the 1 a hunter got jail time for shooting.. Something we took a note to was the wolves can not survive here for long as they have been breeding with coyotes. That is sort of a good thing as the Feds can't regulate us because of it..
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
RE: Wolves in Mass
but there have been rumors for years about NY state Dept. of Environmental Conservation releasing wolves and mountain lions, so who knows.
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#10
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 232
RE: Wolves in Mass
I grew up in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts and if there is anywhere in the Commonwealth you would expect to find wolves it would be there. I spent alot of time in the woods and never saw any sign of wolves or even coyotes for that matter. There were rumors that there were bobcats around but no one ever produced one. This was back in the 1960's so things might have changed but I sure find the story about wolves hard to believe.