(*&^%$ Wolves
 

after years of hard work, I turned some low crappy forested land into food plots--even stumping and burning--years of liming and fertilizing, building stands, now I have deer staying nearby--Friday had 1 doe 2 fawns and 1 doe 1 fawn on food plot, heard wolves about 500 to 600 yards away and coming fast, seemed to be no less than 6 more likely 8 in a line left to right--as they howled all my deer ran with tails down in opposite direction along with a few others that must have been coming-- same thing Saturday only less deer-- same thing sunday but no howling deer just smelled and ran--looked over area Monday am many wolfe tracks circling area--a lot of turds-- all buck sign missing scrapes abandoned etc--had twin 10 ponters coming at night-- tall 8 point and numerous twinkie bucks all are now gone thinking of sending a bill for crop damage etc to federal fish and wildlife service H H

The wolves are an apex predator. In areas where they have taken over that I have hunted the deer are definitely impacted. In northern Ontario the deer walk with the wind to keep the wolves from coming at them from the rear and use their eyes ahead. Bad news animals if you are an elk or deer hunter...at least from my opinion.

Don't know if you have dogs or not but I found this.

http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabi...f/dogdeps.html

Do you have a wolf season? :wink:

That is the problem in a lot of places where they get introduced. No season. In northern Ontario they used to be like coyotes and everyone killed them off only having to pay a small game fee. Now the government put a 300 dollar license on them and nobody is shooting them (legally). Their numbers have grown exponentially while the deer numbers are down. I saw 1 when I was hunting up there a couple of years ago. They are indeed a beautiful animal.

It sounds like government stupidity again. Some things just aren't meant to be. At least in some states, etc.

Actually, it's "environmentalist" stupidity. We had a successful wolf hunting season. Some tree huggers got hold of a sympathetic judge and shut it down, much to the disgust of the State DNR and sportsman alike.

Its really a shame that judges succumb to the whims of ignorant tree huggers and PETA groups instead of the actual fact from wildlife specialists. This society has gone crazy.
The only exception I've seen to this is hunter who relay information to biologists year after year regarding wildlife populations and they just ignore it.

Wonder why our ancestors who depended on livestock and game for food didn't like wolves.
Sort of like Red Tail hawks.
We used to have Quail here and Grouse.
Now we have hawks.

Yep the Wolves are to thick in that part of WI, on one logging job north of Hatfield, i saw fresh wolf tracks over my tracks from the night before every morning walking in. during the whole job i saw very few deer tracks on the muddy trail, that spot used to be full of deer. A pack can drive a bunch of deer off quick, they have killed quite a few of the newly transplanted Elk also, it's a shame we can't hunt them.