jeez...i leave the computor for a week or two to wrench on my sled, and then all this BS...some of you guys need to lay off the methamphetamine. call me a tree-hugger/hippy whatever you want, if you knew me you would know that pretty far from the truth. i am not some "save the wolves" greeny, how many of those guys advocate killing even a single wolf? my whole point originally is that wolves need to have their numbers managed. I have ZERO problem with hunting wolves. I have ZERO problem with eradicating problem wolves/packs that prey on livestock. and i think that this judge up in montana that keeps trying to put wolves and grizzly bears back on the endanged species list is an idiot that is not playing with all the facts. however, having open season all year long with rednecks running around in the woods with guns seems like a stupid idea to me. I do agree 100% that some areas have a serious overpopulation of wolves. idaho for example has over 1000 wolves...that is waaaay too many wolves. this sounds like a place that is in need of some serious management....(ie. hunting). in fact i think idaho could probably hunt more than 220 wolves a season and be just fine. but that is what management is...a plan to achieve certain numbers in certain places. some places have a lot of wolves that are a problem and need to be dealt with..and they should be dealt with. but certain places don't have a problem like others do. i still stand by my original assessment that wolves in the jackson hole area and in the gros ventre are not waaay over population, and are not a problem currently. this may not be the case where you live, and if it isn't, i say go ahead and hunt until it isn't a problem..i don't care. seems to me like this years wolf hunt in idaho and montana went just fine...and mabye after a few years of hunts all of the states can get their populations under control and keep them under control. but this what i am talking about when i say managing wolves..keeping population numbers under control so that they don't become a problem. just like g&f sets target numbers for moose, deer, elk, buffalo..they should do the same for wolves, and they should use the hunting season and its quotas to try and achieve and sustain those numbers. you guys all seem to think the guys at g&f are idiots, but i bet these guys have waaay more of a handle on the facts and the issues with this stuff than anybody on this board does.
and lastly, as for the whole elk issue...are you sure you are not just suffering from a little hunter jealousy? you think its wrong for wolves to hunt, because you want it to be EASIER for you to hunt. i would believe the whole "save the elk" rhetoric a whole lot more if it wasen't coming from a guy dressed in cheesy cabelas camo with a shotgun in hand. want more elk? don't take out tags this year. hunters kill 3-4x as many elk in the gros ventre drainage as wolves do annually. i'm not saying hunting elk is wrong in any way (i think elk is delicious), but just playing devils advocate here. fwiw, all of my friends that had elk tags this season filled them early in the season. heck, i even have a friend that has shot his elk roadside from the gros ventre river road for the second year in a row. but i still hear that its hard hunting here in jackson from dudes that live like 8 hours away and can't even spell the name of the mountain range correctly (or even close). perhaps this dude should try to haul his fat a$$ farther than a 1/2 mile from the road before he starts complaining that the hunting is difficult in a place that probaly has the highest hunter success rate in the state.
end of rant...now back to figuring out what the F is wrong with this POS ski doo sitting in my back yard. snow is here
chris
and lastly, as for the whole elk issue...are you sure you are not just suffering from a little hunter jealousy? you think its wrong for wolves to hunt, because you want it to be EASIER for you to hunt. i would believe the whole "save the elk" rhetoric a whole lot more if it wasen't coming from a guy dressed in cheesy cabelas camo with a shotgun in hand. want more elk? don't take out tags this year. hunters kill 3-4x as many elk in the gros ventre drainage as wolves do annually. i'm not saying hunting elk is wrong in any way (i think elk is delicious), but just playing devils advocate here. fwiw, all of my friends that had elk tags this season filled them early in the season. heck, i even have a friend that has shot his elk roadside from the gros ventre river road for the second year in a row. but i still hear that its hard hunting here in jackson from dudes that live like 8 hours away and can't even spell the name of the mountain range correctly (or even close). perhaps this dude should try to haul his fat a$$ farther than a 1/2 mile from the road before he starts complaining that the hunting is difficult in a place that probaly has the highest hunter success rate in the state.
end of rant...now back to figuring out what the F is wrong with this POS ski doo sitting in my back yard. snow is here
chris
