Here's a link to the Wyoming Game and Fish's draft wolf management plan. I haven't read the entire document but thought it would be interesting for the group.

Note, you must have adobe acrobat reader in order to read the document. It's free for download on the Internet.

http://gf.state.wy.us/html/afs/pdf/draftwolfplan.pdf

Here's the final plan for the grizzly, too. The specifically mention allowing hunting.

http://gf.state.wy.us/html/admin/grizzfinal.htm

[ 11-26-2002, 20:54: Message edited by: parshal ]

What I'd like to know is if it is a good thing for us in Wyoming and around Y-stone who live here (HELLO!!! WE LIVE HERE!) to "enjoy" hunting, camping and such in griz country why isn't it a good thing for those in Estes Park and Grand Lake to share our "enjoyment"?

Futhermore, in today's Casper Star Tribune, the official state newspaper, there is an article (out of Denver) about putting birth control implants into elk in Grand Teton National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park because there are too many elk. The cost of each implant is between $200 and $300 with the annual total "somewhere above $100,000. If you allow the wolves to populate there won't be and over population of elk! For more info on that statement just read the article about the wolves killing or hamstringing 10 to 20 elk PER NIGHT on the Gros Ventre feed grounds last winter.

AND now that I'm on my soapbox!! Just who the hell is going to pay for this little wolf experiment here in Wyoming once it is turned over to the state. I'll tell you who, IT IS THE WYOMING GAME and FISH DEPARTMENT thats who! Using your and my license monies, which USED to go toward managing GAME animals. Guess what your license fees are going to do. Guess how much of the money is not going to elk research or game management!

Remember, this was shoved down our throats because some idiots thought they would like to hear a wolf howl when the drove thru Y-stone (at 65mph and at 10:30am in the morning I might add) or that the "natural predator" was missing in the ecosystem.

Damn, you got my blood boiling now! I gotta go get a drink of cold water to cool off. Maybe if I stepped outside and pored it over myself, it was just a little below zero here this morning!

I found many piles of elk and deer bones on the ridge called the elk motel in Wyoming this year and we had a heck of a time getting elk to come out of the timber. Found wolf, mountain lion and bear sign where all these used to be rare.

I'm not even gonna go to the podium because it's almost dinnertime and I don't need blood shooting out my ears before I go home.

We got along handsomely for 100 or so years while the wolf was EXTINCT and sportsmen mangaged the game herds and their distribution.

If I have to carry a shovel with me out hunting, I'm gonna need a lighter rifle.

Redial