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<blockquote data-quote="Topgun 30-06" data-source="post: 489195" data-attributes="member: 28854"><p>mustang58---I don't know where you live or where you got the information from in this sentence you just posted: "They have wolves and grizzlies in the NW but neither expands outward very far". The summer before last a pack from north of Yellowstone moved all the way towards the south end of the Big Horn Mountains where I hunt and killed over 100 sheep and calves on the ranches next to the area I have hunted since 1994. The Father of the Federal trapper assigned to the case told me that his son never could trap any and ended up shooting 3 out of the pack of an estimated 8 from an airplane and the rest got away. The alpha male that was killed had a collar that had been put on north of Gardner, MT and that's a good 4 hour highway drive at the least from where it was shot. Another female collared up there traveled 5 different states in seven months and was finally found dead in Colorado of unknown causes. Another was killed on I-90 way over near Sturgis, SD where the big motorcycle rally is held each year. The grizzlies are also out of control and way outside the Yellowstone ecosystem with a number of incidents with hunters way down in deer Regions G & H, which is many miles from where they should have been kept in check. More and more outfitters are taking dogs into their camps to warn them of bear intrusions and others are also now putting electric fences around their camps to keep the bears out. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that is exactly why Wyoming has been so adamant with keeping their plan intact where wolves would be predators and shot on sight outside the recovery zone. They can populate an area very quickly compared to the slow production rate of the grizzly. This grizzly situation is going to be worse in the next few years, especially with the pine bark trees either dying or having low cone production. That is the main food of the grizzly before it dens in order to put on weight and now they are coming to a lot of deer and elk kills as soon as they hear gunshots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topgun 30-06, post: 489195, member: 28854"] mustang58---I don't know where you live or where you got the information from in this sentence you just posted: "They have wolves and grizzlies in the NW but neither expands outward very far". The summer before last a pack from north of Yellowstone moved all the way towards the south end of the Big Horn Mountains where I hunt and killed over 100 sheep and calves on the ranches next to the area I have hunted since 1994. The Father of the Federal trapper assigned to the case told me that his son never could trap any and ended up shooting 3 out of the pack of an estimated 8 from an airplane and the rest got away. The alpha male that was killed had a collar that had been put on north of Gardner, MT and that's a good 4 hour highway drive at the least from where it was shot. Another female collared up there traveled 5 different states in seven months and was finally found dead in Colorado of unknown causes. Another was killed on I-90 way over near Sturgis, SD where the big motorcycle rally is held each year. The grizzlies are also out of control and way outside the Yellowstone ecosystem with a number of incidents with hunters way down in deer Regions G & H, which is many miles from where they should have been kept in check. More and more outfitters are taking dogs into their camps to warn them of bear intrusions and others are also now putting electric fences around their camps to keep the bears out. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that is exactly why Wyoming has been so adamant with keeping their plan intact where wolves would be predators and shot on sight outside the recovery zone. They can populate an area very quickly compared to the slow production rate of the grizzly. This grizzly situation is going to be worse in the next few years, especially with the pine bark trees either dying or having low cone production. That is the main food of the grizzly before it dens in order to put on weight and now they are coming to a lot of deer and elk kills as soon as they hear gunshots. [/QUOTE]
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