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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 589206" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I would fully agree that the native wolf has a place in the area here, they never were completely gone and had a fine population until they were irradiated by the gray wolf, the gray wolf did in a couple short years what millions of dollars and poison did not! The problem with the native wolf was it was not publicly visible, people think that what they see in Yellowstone is normal so they think they should be able to see wolves and hear them, the native wolf was much like the mountain lion and you had to spend serious time in the mountains if you wanted to see them or hear them and that doesn't put money and power into peoples pockets so the native wolf was removed for a more popular version.</p><p></p><p>I think we're in for a management nightmare, when I was helping trap a lot of coyotes we would kill them down till we started catching older females, males and young go first in the populations so we were killing a good percentage but what happens is the litters and health of the coyotes increased greatly thus the great renewable resource. It's very hard to kill predators of this nature in a way that actually decreases the numbers, even coyotes we'd have to use getters and denning to seriously impact the numbers. At the levels we're killing wolves now we're just making them healthier!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 589206, member: 13632"] I would fully agree that the native wolf has a place in the area here, they never were completely gone and had a fine population until they were irradiated by the gray wolf, the gray wolf did in a couple short years what millions of dollars and poison did not! The problem with the native wolf was it was not publicly visible, people think that what they see in Yellowstone is normal so they think they should be able to see wolves and hear them, the native wolf was much like the mountain lion and you had to spend serious time in the mountains if you wanted to see them or hear them and that doesn't put money and power into peoples pockets so the native wolf was removed for a more popular version. I think we're in for a management nightmare, when I was helping trap a lot of coyotes we would kill them down till we started catching older females, males and young go first in the populations so we were killing a good percentage but what happens is the litters and health of the coyotes increased greatly thus the great renewable resource. It's very hard to kill predators of this nature in a way that actually decreases the numbers, even coyotes we'd have to use getters and denning to seriously impact the numbers. At the levels we're killing wolves now we're just making them healthier!!! [/QUOTE]
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