If there is not enough current hunting pressure to keep the wolf population in control, then incentivize hunters. For each wolf killed, refund 100% of a deer license - out of state hunters included. For every two wolves killed, refund 100% of an elk license.
Would this work? Or maybe my idea has some holes in it?
GOV"T doesn't think like that, most are there to have a secure job with benefits/pension. They're not looking to give department/budget money away.
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Oh Oh, the great wolf crusaders BHA trolls Culdumb and Buzzh are going to come on here soon and say wolves only kill the sick animals and actually help the moose, elk and deer.
They could use the money to pay hunters bounty to kill them. They have devastated the elk population, and now are killing cows, sheep and other livestock. Our pioneers ancestors killed bears and wolves to protect their livestock.
Oh Oh, the great wolf crusaders Culdumb and Buzzh are going to come on here soon and say wolves only kill the sick animals and actually help the moose, elk and deer.
Ya who the fuuck didn’t see this coming.. just look at the millions and millions of $$ spent, that coulda been spent on managing species folks care about and that could actually make $$$. What a god damn farce
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Yep, remove some restrictions, allow leghold traps. Idaho may already, just saying. With a longer season, allowing trapping, the next step would be targeted bounties in problem areas, those numbers will fall.
In WI 80% or so were caught with traps, the MB-750 the premiere choice.
You would think Colorado would learn from this but......
I'd have thought the same, but I spent time in CO years back, when it was still a solid red state. Obviously things have changed. Front range city folks foist liberal policy onto 98% of the rest of the state. Same thing in most other states, I suppose.
But now they have wolves in the Flat Tops. Won't be long until they decimate one of the greatest elk hunting opportunities there ever was for average guys. Sure the Flat tops got hammered with hunters, but we at least always saw a fair amount of animals, and if you hunted hard and didn't mind north facing slopes with dead fall jungles, there was usually opportunities.
Can't help but think that it's all part of the plan. Things just dovetail together a little too nicely: Get rid of the game, get rid of the hunters. Get rid of the hunters, get rid of more gun owners and gun rights advocates. Get rid of more gun owners . . .
A bounty would not help a hunter get w/in range of a wolf. I have hunted all over Idaho every year since delisting and have yet to get a shot. Wolves cover a lot of territory and you have to be in the right place at the right time. Wolves don't live in easy country nor are they dumb. Hunting Himalayan Snow Cocks in the Rubies is an easier hunt.
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South Dakota just spent more than that on coyotes last year. 11k song dogs at the tube of 175 a piece or something like that. All part of managing them
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Foundation for Wildlife Management will reimburse every hunter cost up to 2000 dollars per wolf right now. That's fuel, ammunition, vehicle purchase, food, lodging, license fees, etc. - If anyone needed a go ahead to kill them - there it is. There's one wolf for every 47 miles though - good luck unless a pack runs across your lap while you're diddling around on the ridges.
I've always carried more than one wolf tag and hunted them aggressively. They are very, very difficult to find even using bait. I've only seen one and only for a few seconds. I've never killed one in the lower 48. By comparison, I've had hundreds of bears and dozens of cats in the crosshairs.
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SOurdough, I have not heard from you in years. I am glad you are still well. As for the pic of the trap, that is the best by far. From trapping coons and rats I learned long ago, a trap is quiet, it is incredibly patient,,, and has 24/7/365 to wait. While us hunters want to see action in a few hours.. I set a trap and go to bed . The trap does the work for me. I just decided tonight that I am going to start trapping fox. I am so tired of fox on my cam almost every night, and I love rabbit hunting and very seldom even see them anymore. Way too many varmints out there.
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That involves a lot of collateral other-species kill, but it is likely the cheapest. Helicopter gunships (to borrow a phrase from the "lupus uber alls " dickheads,) are the most effective (but not cheap!) to reduce wolf populations.
It gets even speedier if you manage to burn up one of the choppers while refueling, as happened up here, once upon a time.
