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<blockquote data-quote="dook" data-source="post: 845782" data-attributes="member: 25123"><p>Here in Western Montana, we only have about 1/10 the elk we had 15 years ago when the wolves were introduced. The "official numbers" are skewed in favor of wolves.</p><p>It has everything to do with the wolf introduction. Under subsistence conditions a wolf may kill only 20 elk a year, but when you factor in the fact that they kill elf for sport, the number is many times that amount. The sport killing of elk by wolves has tapered way off, not because wolves got religion, but because now there are so many more wolves and so few elk that they tend to have to eat all they kill. </p><p> </p><p>Elk populations are still going down and wolf populations are still going up. </p><p> </p><p>Even if we were allowed to hunt wolves 24 hours a day and 365 days a year using fully automatic weapons, silenced weapons, spotlights, electronic calls, helicopters, hounds, 2 way radios and bait, we would never be able to get the elk populations back up to what they were. Why? because if wolf populations dropped to 25% of what they are now, they would make up the difference in damage by sport killing and they would go completely nocturnal. </p><p> </p><p>The only way to solve the wolf problem is to do as our much wiser ancestors did and use poison and biological warfare. That is what responsible wildlife managers should be advocating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dook, post: 845782, member: 25123"] Here in Western Montana, we only have about 1/10 the elk we had 15 years ago when the wolves were introduced. The "official numbers" are skewed in favor of wolves. It has everything to do with the wolf introduction. Under subsistence conditions a wolf may kill only 20 elk a year, but when you factor in the fact that they kill elf for sport, the number is many times that amount. The sport killing of elk by wolves has tapered way off, not because wolves got religion, but because now there are so many more wolves and so few elk that they tend to have to eat all they kill. Elk populations are still going down and wolf populations are still going up. Even if we were allowed to hunt wolves 24 hours a day and 365 days a year using fully automatic weapons, silenced weapons, spotlights, electronic calls, helicopters, hounds, 2 way radios and bait, we would never be able to get the elk populations back up to what they were. Why? because if wolf populations dropped to 25% of what they are now, they would make up the difference in damage by sport killing and they would go completely nocturnal. The only way to solve the wolf problem is to do as our much wiser ancestors did and use poison and biological warfare. That is what responsible wildlife managers should be advocating. [/QUOTE]
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