Can someone please post a hunting report?

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=233264...nters&s_cid=queue-15

Wolf Hunting Report:

gun go bang
wolf goes Vegan

Famous wolves? I bet Newlin is a liberal!

Proof positive that the wolves do not stay in the parks but go to where the food is. If they are in a hunting area, fair game. I hope hunters get the rest of the pack!

Game Commish in Montana just gave
up a buffer zone !!!!!
What a bunch to idiots

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Game Commish in Montana just gave
up a buffer zone !!!!!
What a bunch to idiots

I guess 2,221,766 acres of Yellowstone isn't a big enough buffer zone.

Cry me a river. She should have stayed in the park.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
Cry me a river. She should have stayed in the park.

I'm glad she didn't

Read more like an Obituary than a news story... no tears for Bambi's mother.

Another good wolf.

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Originally posted by BigNate:
Another good wolf.

+1

ironically, those wolves most accustomed to human observation may be the least wary of hunters.

Montana Wolf Season Temporarily Shut Down Near Yellowstone After Collared Wolves Shot

A gray wolf hunting season has been temporarily shut down in some areas north of Yellowstone National Park as of Monday, December 10 because a number of collared wolves have been killed.

Montana’s wildlife commissioners voted 4 to 1 to approve the closures, just days before the start of the trapping season, which is scheduled to begin Saturday, December 15. The ruling by the commission shuts down both hunting and trapping in areas east and west of Gardiner, near Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone officials said at least five Yellowstone wolves that wore tracking collars for scientific research were harvested by hunters in recent weeks in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Commissioner Dan Vermillion was the only one who voted against closing the areas because he said there is no evidence that the take of these specific wolves is damaging long-term species viability.

Four other Yellowstone collared wolves originally from the park, but now living outside of it, were harvested as well.

One of the collared wolves shot was one of Yellowstone’s most popular wolves for wildlife watchers. The six-year-old alpha female wolf, known as 832F, of the Lamar Canyon pack, was shot on Thursday.

Commissioner Shane Colton was one of the commissioners to vote for the closure. He believes that using collars is a way not only to study the animals, but to manage their numbers as well.

“That is an area where we feel we are at significant risk of losing more collared wolves,” Colton told the Associated Press, referring to the areas which are now closed to wolf hunting.

Colton mentioned that officials will discuss the creation of a buffer zone around the park during a commission meeting on Monday. Some have been calling for a permanent and extensive buffer zone around the park.

Although Yellowstone scientists say the species’ population is not in immediate danger, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission chairman Bob Ream said they are halting the hunt because of the collared wolf situation.

“It seems to be kind of a compromise,” Ream told the AP.

The collared ones are getting long in the tooth are they not?

I won't pass up one with a necklace in hopes of tagging one without. Take the opportunity given to you and make the best of it.

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Originally posted by BigNate:
Another good wolf.

+Another

That whole Buffer Zone thing has been just a rediculous extension of the Park. It should never have been created in the first place.

Personally, if I could tell the wolf was collared I would not shoot it. I know most don't give a damn but it takes time and money to do the collaring. In some studies, and I am sure this isn't one of them, the biologists actually do not want hunters to turn down collared animals because they are trying to get accurate mortality statistics and if you would have shot the animal but do not because of the collar it messes up the numbers for them.

As a hunter I would be more worried about the fur being damaged with the collar rubbing all the guard hairs off. I have seen this sort of damage on bears that had collars on them. Kind of screws up a nice rug.

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Originally posted by buffybr:

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Originally posted by BigNate:
Another good wolf.

+Another

That whole Buffer Zone thing has been just a rediculous extension of the Park. It should never have been created in the first place.

Rember wolfs kill to kill and eat what they like they are beautiful animals when mounted and ruged. Kevin

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Originally posted by delloro:
ironically, those wolves most accustomed to human observation may be the least wary of hunters.

This sounds like a perfectly reasonable conclusion...and if true, the responsibility for this wolves’ "lack of human proximity fear" lies completely with the 'human observers'…no fault lies with the hunter...

And yes I fall into the crowd who believes “a good wolf is a dead wolf”…

I would say that maybe hunters are using trackers to find the collared one and shooting them.

Here in Michigan they use planes to find collared wolves. If i could hunt them I would look for the DNR plane circling and hunt that area.

yeah that's xactly what we need, wolves that are accustomed to hanging around people.
they wouldn't have left the park if there was plenty of food there,
especially an alpha female, they don't just wander around to see the sights.

You boys kill 'em up there before they get down here to Colorado, please.

Was anyone else expecting the "world's most famous wolf" to be named something along the lines of "the big bad" and not a132f?

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Life's too short to have a dog that doesn't earn his keep, a gun that's too pretty to shoot, a woman who isn't too pretty, or ride a mule.

I like this. I have ridden a few good mules though.