isn't it supposed to be a sport that takes skill, cunning, etc.?
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Weak. Wolves, when they are get out of control, can have a devastating affect on a state's animal populations. Would people rather they catch them in traps?
When you're hunting for food, i.e., deer, moose, etc, people say that hunting takes skill. However, when you're elminating predators, like wolves that are a danger, that is when you don't depend on skill or cunning. I was actually watching a program on the History Channel a couple weeks ago about Alaska. They were following this one guy around who had at least one dog, it might have been 3 dogs killed by wolves. All the wolves left of his dog was the collar. Anyway, he was trying to hunt the wolves down, and he was using all sorts of stuff, even night vision goggles, and he couldn't find them to shoot them. So, the point is, to really make a difference in the wolf population, it may take going to the air. -
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Wow. Love the part about a $150 bounty for a severed wolf foreleg.
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If this were merely for hunting, I would stand by the point. -
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I thought that wolves, or at least most species of them were on the federal endangered protected list. Or were anyway. If that is the case, state laws can only make a federal law more restrictive but not more lenient. Even if they were taken off the pretocted list, i would think it to be a bit much to post bounties on them now. -
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If wolves are getting in to human things, and killing pets and stuff like that, then they don't necessariliy just die off when the herds get thinned out.
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My take is wolf populations affecting hunters ability to find game is more the reason for the wolf kill in Alaska. There are still some people that see wolves as vermin of all things. Sickening really. -
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You're getting filleted for that one my friend. -
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When you hunt, you don't take the weakest specimen, which is nature's way. You take the strongest most impressive specimen. These specimens are generally the leader of their group or herd. These leaders control the population by selective breeding. The control other males from breeding in their herd. When that leader is gone, especially without a challenge, each herd goes through a period where it is group of males doing indiscriminate breeding. Hence the population goes up. Especially when you factor in the removal of predators. Yellowstone is a perfect example of this.
The point is nature has this down, leave it alone. People's desire to kill, shouldn't supersede nature's ability for life.DeDolfan, Darkoak and ckparrothead like this. -
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BTW, you do know that the wolf population in Alaska is somewhere around 11.000 right? -
Just disgusting how low libs will stoop. -
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