Like I thought boreal,the mention of having your ass streached out,put a smile on your face. You silly little faggot.

RMK, without a doubt, your argument is the most complete I have heard todate on why we should not have introduced the wolf. The arguement that man replaced the wolf as predator was good, as was man can be stopped when needed to allow populations to expand or recover, from whatever occured, and man "as a hunter" quite frankly, is a very large source of funds for the management of our wildlife.

As for the Lower 48, the unanimous voice of all Montanans I've queried (many!) has been a resounding NO!

Has it mattered? Nope. States rights? Tenth Amendment? Yeah, right.

boreal, I haven't agreed with much you've posted on this but at least you're the first pro-wolf poster who actually lives in a place with wolves. Glad you like yours. We'll gladly send you every last one of ours.

You're welcome.

All the best,

Redial

I'm still wondering why area hunters or trappers don't thin out the wolves. Is there no season or something?

Trappers catch some wolves, but in Alaska we have an estimated 10,000 wolves. The packs of wolves I have seen where I hunt moose are as large a 16 to 18 members each.Wolves are perhaps the smatter animals out there, and even though some get snared, most will stay away from snares. Hunting wolves on the ground is extremely difficult, because you can't see them in the brush. If one can set a stand somewhere near the trails, maybe one has a chance of seeing wolves and hunting them. But just imagine how hard it is to hunt from a tree stand in the interior of Alaska, where the temperature may drop to -20 or maybe -60. Also, in some areas there are no trees large enough to climb on, or there are no trees at all, just low growth brush and tundra. That's why aerial wolf hunts are so important to Alaskans, specially those hunts intended for wolf control in remote areas where there are no trails.

Alaska is a huge place, with hardly if any roadways. There are small villages out there that can only be reached by aircraft, and sometimes by boat or snow mobiles during the winter months when the rivers freeze.

one reason the hunters and trappers havent thinned them out lately is that the rivers havent froze over. Its hard to run a trap line when you cant get to them and not everybody has a plane.

Also, these are some damn smart animals. They learn real quick. Now if the state would allow night vision it would be different.

They also introduce wolf control in the nelchina basin. I hope it goes through. It would allow hunting off a snowmachine and have communications with an airplane for spotting. Onec again its another area hit hard. They already made it 1 bear a year and no closed season plus they stopped all nonres hunting for ungalates.

Thanks for the replies Joel and Ray! I hope the thinning operation is successful. If I would have read the story ( http://wildlife.alaska.gov/pubs/news/2003/11-05-03.cfm ) more closely, I would have seen that the aerial hunt would be carried out by locals to thin wolves as only a part of a predator control program. Good luck to 'em.



Redial,

Send all the wolves you want. They will just get killed by our local wolves.



RMK,

Your drunken troll-scribble/drivel looks familiar. Is that you, Monte? Or did you just graduate from the same troll school? You are truly pitiful.