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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 684525" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>I ran into a retired Large Carnivore Biologist at work. His thoughts were interesting. By culling packs of wolves, it keeps the population artificially low in relation to it's food supply. Fewer wolves = greater food supply for the remaining ones = larger litters with more surviving juveniles. He thinks the only way to successfully drop the population is to let them breed until there's to many of them and let disease and limited food supply crash the population. According to him, the impact on the game herds in Idaho is completely predictable as the management practices perpetuate the artificially high and successful wolf population. Hunting and trapping won't crash the population. It was the use of poison baits that eventually got the large carnivore populations under control that since Nixon outlawed that in the 70's, that method is off the table. </p><p></p><p>I don't know. It's hard to do nothing. I do know that you can't hardly go anywhere without finding sign of wolves. That isn't likely to change in my lifetime. I've had wolves in my sights but never pulled the trigger (no tag). The occasional target of opportunity will do little to the overall population but could result in a very very bad experience from the Feds. Risk doesn't equal the reward. I don't blame the wolves. They're just being wolves. It's the people (Feds) that put them there I object to. Can't use poison baits on them either!</p><p></p><p>We'll see how well Washington's plan works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 684525, member: 41338"] I ran into a retired Large Carnivore Biologist at work. His thoughts were interesting. By culling packs of wolves, it keeps the population artificially low in relation to it's food supply. Fewer wolves = greater food supply for the remaining ones = larger litters with more surviving juveniles. He thinks the only way to successfully drop the population is to let them breed until there's to many of them and let disease and limited food supply crash the population. According to him, the impact on the game herds in Idaho is completely predictable as the management practices perpetuate the artificially high and successful wolf population. Hunting and trapping won't crash the population. It was the use of poison baits that eventually got the large carnivore populations under control that since Nixon outlawed that in the 70's, that method is off the table. I don't know. It's hard to do nothing. I do know that you can't hardly go anywhere without finding sign of wolves. That isn't likely to change in my lifetime. I've had wolves in my sights but never pulled the trigger (no tag). The occasional target of opportunity will do little to the overall population but could result in a very very bad experience from the Feds. Risk doesn't equal the reward. I don't blame the wolves. They're just being wolves. It's the people (Feds) that put them there I object to. Can't use poison baits on them either! We'll see how well Washington's plan works. [/QUOTE]
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