From today's Bozeman Chronicle... thought some might find this interesting.

http://209.41.184.21/partners/311/public/news262813.html

Brad

Well imagine that!! Wolves will attack people. Well that is it, take wolves off the cute and cuddly list. Wait until PETA finds out. We will be able to kill every wolf on earth so that the woods are safe for the bunny and deer huggers. I cannot believe the utter ignorance of some people.

Oh one small drawback with that scenario. We will end up like Australia with millions of bunnies (we will have deer to) running around because there are no predators to control their populations.

All ecosystems need healthy predator populations. Period! Wolves are predators. So if you act like a deer (food) guess what pussy you get eaten. Seems logical to me. Maybe the ATV a-holes will now be too scared to go into the woods and screw them all up.

Todd E

[This message has been edited by Todd E (edited 03-03-2002).]

Wow! How stupid was that of some people to let a wild wolf lick them in the face?

There has been several wolf attacks in the past few years. The wolfs you have the more attacks you will get.

I like the idea of having wolves around
but I am equally joyous about shooting
them as often as possible and hanging
them on my wall.

Ross
www.prairiegunworks.com

Brad
The same thing is happening with the only pure population of Dingoes left in Australia on Frazer Island. Despite all the signs saying "Do Not Feed" campers are still feeding these's dogs, resulting in a number of attacks and 1 fatality (a 9 year old boy). The animal involved was shot, rather ineptly by rangers. The more contact these animals have with people the less fear they have, and the more confrontations we will have with them. I think the people who feed these animals should hit in the pocket with a large fine, $1000 should be enough.
Bakes

Forty or fifty years ago, people would feed the BEARs in Smokey Mountains Nat'l Park (in SoEasten Tennessee, USofA). The usual attacks happened and signs were to no avail. Rangers started writing tickets; now the bears stay away from humans (because people no longer give them food) and the attacks have all but stopped. the_captn

Leaving in a week for 4 days to help eliminate some of the "campsite" predators up north. Let me tell you that what I intend to "feed" them is not food!
Never considered the thought that I could be defending the "huggers!"
best,
bhtr

There was a real good segment on National Geographic a couple of years back about 30 or 40 people getting killed by wolves in India. It went on so long simply because people refused to believe that wolves could be the culprit. This sounds like it should be ancient history but the deaths all took place in the 1980's & 1990's.
The government people investivating the deaths saw the wolves openly living near the towns, but felt that the deaths must be attributed to Tigers or Leopards.

How stupid are those people? If a tiger or leopard attack wouldn't there be claw marks? I don't think wolves use their claws.

You would just have to watch the program to get an idea of how the whole thing worked.
It reminded me that the USA doesn't have the market cornered when it comes to worthless and inept people on the government payroll.
Part of the problem was that nobody could find any good matching information on human attacks because the pattern really looked a lot like the lion pride attacks which happen periodically in Africa, and it took them some time to narrow it down to some sort of wolf or dog because even after they ruled out the big cats the prime suspect was Heyenas.
The bulk of the victims were children, with every child who ever disappeared in the region being attributed to the killers. A child would disappear in one village, and then a few days later another child would disappear in a neighboring village, with the pattern being repeated over a very large area. It took a few years of this before the government even got involved.