Basically we agree then.
Wolfs!
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Basically we agree then.
Saw this on the news. See if logic prevails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSa4G7B2krQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSa4G7B2krQ
goofy600
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Hopefully wisconsin and Minnesota get together with michagan and can mount a fight together to get it changed again.
HardwaterHoosier
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rumor has it, a wolf was shot here in Northern IN about a week ago. It stood about a foot taller than the coyotes that were taken the same day.
goofy600
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Not sure about yours in Indiana but one was killed by a car near Morris Il on about 23rd of February, Il dnr claim that only about 10% of Il is good habitat for wolf so it will be years before they can establish themselves in Il. But they also said this was a good healthy female before it got hit, so why would a good healthy wolf be 80 to a 100 miles south of Wisconsin if it wasn't looking for new area to live?
02edgehead
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i saw one bolt off the trail north of minocqua, on the rail trail.
EXCESSIVE FORCE
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I fed them pretty good last Wednesday with the deer i hit with the sled between Watersmeet and Iron River.....
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oldguy
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We are riding up to Canada this weekend, looks like we have to watch out for this going thru Voyageurs. This is a news release sent out on Monday
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park staff and visitors have recently witnessed a lone wolf near the Ash River area. The wolf appears to be alone with no pack and has followed three snowmobilers. In order to ensure visitor safety, park staff are taking precautions by monitoring the wolf and re-routing small sections of the park’s Green and Yellow Trails.
Superintendent Mike Ward stated, “We are taking precautions for the protection of the visitors and the wolf. Visitors are encouraged to continue to enjoy the winter wonderland by accessing the open trails throughout the park and multiple gateway communities.”
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park staff and visitors have recently witnessed a lone wolf near the Ash River area. The wolf appears to be alone with no pack and has followed three snowmobilers. In order to ensure visitor safety, park staff are taking precautions by monitoring the wolf and re-routing small sections of the park’s Green and Yellow Trails.
Superintendent Mike Ward stated, “We are taking precautions for the protection of the visitors and the wolf. Visitors are encouraged to continue to enjoy the winter wonderland by accessing the open trails throughout the park and multiple gateway communities.”
Funny, we were there last weekend, rode these exact trails, and actually stopped and talked to two sets of officers standing on the trail checking speeds and stickers and neither one said anything about wolves. One guy actually said he was hoping to see one, as he had not seen a wolf on duty yet.
momoney2123
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While the wolf deaths sound right, i actually thought there was only 1 wolf death and the wolf was a loner with rabies. i know for a fact more than 12 people have been killed by a bear in the last century....alot more.
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Maybe they meant 12 this century, not the past century?
My wife and I were X-country skiing the Cloquet, MN city trail with our 75# yellow lab last week and had two wolves tracking our trail. The trail makes a @2 mile loop which we do, then turn around and recircle it. On our return loop the two had their noses to the ground (following the dog scent no doubt) coming down a straightaway towards us. I yelled when they got about 100 yards away and both stopped. One slowly walked back down the trial and eventually headed into the interior of the loop. The other just stood sideways in the trail, looking at us, then his/her buddy, then back at us. After about a minute of this I yelled again and it headed into the pines. We live about 2 miles straight south of this trail and have had our neighbors beagle eaten by a wolf two falls ago. DNR doesnt know how big this pack is, but the one west of this group is one of the biggest they have recorded, at 15-17 adults currently (pre-denning count). Several in this pack are collared so can be gps's from the air and observed.
Does make it a bit more interesting when skiing in the dark LOL.
The only death that I know of in the US was a school teacher in Alaska a few years ago, she was jogging alone and attacked. And I believe there was another that occurred in Canada to a mine worker a few years before that.
http://www.adn.com/article/wolves-killed-alaska-teacher-2010-state-says
http://www.wildsentry.org/Killer_Wolf.htm
Does make it a bit more interesting when skiing in the dark LOL.
The only death that I know of in the US was a school teacher in Alaska a few years ago, she was jogging alone and attacked. And I believe there was another that occurred in Canada to a mine worker a few years before that.
http://www.adn.com/article/wolves-killed-alaska-teacher-2010-state-says
http://www.wildsentry.org/Killer_Wolf.htm
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Saw fresh tracks about halfway between Virginia and Chisholm last weekend. It had just snowed and I followed the tracks for quite aways down the trail. Only saw one in the UP on a loop kinda northwest of Twin Lakes. It just stood there and watched us, kinda eary, as we had stopped for a bs session. I wondered if it could smell the Zingers and jerky in my bag through the cloud of Amsoil from the idling sleds.
