i snowmobile every year on the continental divide trail system (going up next week for four days)......one of the nights i stay near a large elk feeding station.....the guys that do the feeding frequently come over to the lodge to warm up and get a beer.....they say that there's a pack of about 8 that live off the 2500 or so elk at their station.....they say they make at least one kill a day, and make a game of it, stampeding the elk and running them for about 30-40 minutes just for the fun of it....they always take a full grown and healthy animal, never a sick or crippled one (and they have several in the herd).....and once a week or so, they come in and kill a half dozen or so of the yearlings for sport, never eat those, however.....the river valleys around the elk station have always been a place to see moose, lots of them....no more, we haven't seen a moose in the last two years, not one....the number of calves to breeding females is about 15%, should be at least 80%.....the breeding female population is in their last 25% of their producing years according to theri age, when they die or are killed in the next 3-4 years, the pool of breeding females will drop dramatically, and so will elk production....no moose, no elk.....what will all those big basturds eat then?.....then the wolf lovers will start to get a real education, instead of the crap that they learn in liberal colleges run by people that have never been outside of an academic situation in their lives, but are so positive they're smarter than you and me....and so self righteous about it too....i just wish we could then capture about 500 or so of the wolves and turn them loose in san francisco, and see how long it would take for them to shoot the basturds....
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