Only deer you won't see are the weak ones. Why so many wolve haters?? How many people are sick of hitting deer!! Get over it. We need more wolves. I would love to see a wolve in the wild. Feel lucky!!
Sean, your profile says, "have not made any friends yet" and with statements like the one here, it isn't any wonder.
Just kidd'n....easy boy...don't take offense!
While having lots of wolves around might be something that some people want to see, it really isn't a practical way to cut down on the deer population at least in the areas where the deer numbers are too high.
These animals are unique for what they can do in nature. They are natural killers and they do not fear anything. You are right when you say that they prey on the weak, but for wolves, ALL deer are weak when enough wolves are hunting them down. Unlike the coyote which really doesn't have the ability (usually) to bring down a healthy deer, and do not hunt in packs (usually) wolves do and they can kill, often multiple times if opportunity knocks (yarding areas) and in a few days can kill many times more than the food necessary to sustain them. The "experts" can not explain why this is, other than to say that they are being like squirrels and storing food for a later time....yeah, right.
In most long established wolf territory, the wolf has larger game animals such as elk or moose which don't do the yarding thing, and are large enough to fend off even a good group of wolves unless unlucky or unhealthy.
But put wolves in with deer which do group up like sheep, and you have the recipe for some bad interaction. Since the larger game animals are no longer the target the smaller ones become easy prey, the prey animals grow and multiply almost unchecked. (That's what is happening right now in the Midwest.)
The only thing that will bring them under control is hunting them or disease.
This includes rabies, and that my friend will put them directly at odds with men, women and children as well as dogs cats and anything else they come across.
Wolves are interesting animals, but man needs to understand that they belong in the wild far from most civilization and away from the lesser game animals and man himself, and in balance with the larger game animals where they are far more challenged and less likely to over populate.
Denali National park in Alaska has 47 wolves to roam the whole vast park area. Contrast this with 600-800 in the Upper Pen. of Michigan and you begin to see how out of proportion the numbers are.
As the population of deer moves further south into urban areas, and the inevitable increase in wolves following them there, can you see the potential for problems? It can get far worse before people see that having wolves within close reach of people and their lives, with dogs cattle and other animals, is going to be problematic. We might as well have grizzly bears roaming around in the suburbs too....accidents are as likely as flat tires on cars.
So you have to ask yourself, will YOUR dog, or cow or kid for that matter be one of the first....and then see how "neat" it is to see wolves.
Many are now beginning to realize this and learn that if you want to see wolves, go to northern Ontario, or out west or Alaska where they belong...but not in the suburbs of Milwakee, or Grand Rapids.
Problems are inevitable...just hope it won't affect you...first before public gets enough of it.
