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LouisB,

Fwiw, NYC already has LOTS of EASTERN COYOTES, as does Seattle & Portland. - I wouldn't be shocked to find out that SF & Chicago have their ration, too.

Fwiw, Eastern Coyotes are MORE potentially dangerous to children than most wolves are.
(There has never been an attack on a live person in the USA by a healthy wolf, though a few fresh corpses have been eaten upon.)

Btw, we have video evidence that there is at least ONE large male Mountain Lion in downtown San Antonio. = He has been seen numerous times on bank surveillance cameras. - He hasn't bothered a single soul, to my knowledge.

yours, tex

Depends on the year. Wet springs usually mean you will be carried away by them in the summer around dusk. Dry springs and they are not too bad. It also depends on the which part of the state you're in. Swampy woodlands, of course, are always bad.

To All,

Fwiw, even though I was stationed all over the place when I was on AD, I don't remember ANY city that had as many sorts of "livestock" as The Alamo City has. = The San Antonio Riverwalk seems to be "the highway" that brings large numbers/sorts of wildlife into/out of the central city.

yours, tex

Thanks Rooster .

YOU KNOW, OUR FOREFATHERS ALMOST ERADICATED THOSE SOMBICTHES . And now the tree huggers brought them back.

I've said it before,kill them and then DO NOT make any statements to anyone especially to authorities.That sheriff is not going to be investigating to find out who killed a wolf and most state game wardens I ever knew wouldn't be bothered by a dead wolf. Now the feds are a different story but there aren't many of them. If you just learn to say "I want to talk to a lawyer before I talk to you" then you are home free assuming you don't leave cartridge cases laying around and use bullets that pass through. Most folks I ever knew that got in trouble for something like this could not resist the temptation to handle the victim or worse give him a ride.

About as many as FL. Only bigger.

Was on Mount Hood, today and saw numerous and large wolf tracks between 5000-6000' elevation. No sign of coyotes which infest the area. Mr. and Mrs Wolf must be dining well.

I live 4 mikes from the MN border. There’s a large wildlife preserve across the border. We get wolves and Mt. lions here.
One was in my front yard looking at my English Pointer like he was at McDonalds and the dog was a Big Mac w/French fries. The Wolfe walking steadily towards the pooch. The dog was backed up to a tractor and was calling for me. I thought the dog’s tail might start a whirl wind when I took over the staring down the wolf position. That wolf was easily twice the height and length of my dog.

It used to be legal to shoot wolves in Eastern South Dakota. The [bleep] from the Twin Cities took SD to federal court and now it’s not ok to shoot em.

Friends from across the border tell me that the custom is to shoot them in the gut so that they run off before they die.

Actually, you might want to review that detail as the facts were established quite solidly to the contrary a few years back. No one wants or likes to believe that wolves can and will.


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I've lived in MN my whole life less the last 2 months. Was in Duluth for nearly the last 20 years. It's to the point if you go driving the more remote roads in northern St. Louis, Lake, and Cook counties in the winter you WILL see wolves nearly every day. Not seeing them is the exception. Summer they're a little tougher to find. As far as the mosquitoes go, I'm sure not going to miss those. Barely tolerable in a dry year and there aren't many dry years.

MN shares the mosquito with Alaska for state bird.

The farther one lives from wolves, the more they like wolves. 2/3 of the people living in MN live in the Twin Cities metro area.

We've got 'em down just north of Brainerd in numbers too. Some of the locals deal with it in their own quiet way.

I like this suggestion ! or do what Wisconsin wants to do: all DNR and all Wisconsin law enforcement are not to do anything when a wolf has been killed,just walk away,no investigation, no tickets, nothing.

Good on the Sheriff and the department!

An area we hunt in the UP is my reference, fwiw.

Folks shooting at wolves and being aggressive toward them helps move wolves out of an area...or at the very least, maintain a much more cautious profile. When they have a uncontested access, they get an attitude and pass such on to the next generation.

THAT would be excellent news.

The good folks of Bayfield and Douglas counties have already been making a fairly decent dent in the overpopulation of the woofs, despite the risks associated due to some poorly thought out "Laws" implemented by the tree hugging, leftist pricks. Taking off the cuffs will be a great leap forward to that end.

Yep, I think the wolves need to be "managed" a little more myself. Between them and the cold winters, they have done a real number on Northern Minnesota Deer populations to say the least.

I can tell you this. That is NOT what's happening in WI.

I hunt in Douglas Co. There are plenty of wolves. Don't fool yourself. I know and hunt with some guys that run dogs for bear in Douglass. They're seeing wolves nearly every day.

I agree, I see the sign and hear the same from lots of folks. There are still wolves everywhere there. I've hunted Western Bayfield and Eastern Douglas counties since 1974, and tagged along for a few years prior to that. The peak of the Wolf debacle seems to have been '09 through '15 or so. There is some improvement happening the last couple of years, and it is surely not due to any changes in the law enforcement aspect. It is due to good folks just "Getting it done" and maybe some natural dispersal, hopefully to Madison... There is a LOT more to be done, but it will take time to unfawk that which what has been fawked.