Actually, if you know what you are doing, a wolf isn't much harder to trap than most other species.
If the wolf is so hard to trap, how did they catch the ones that were released into Yellowstone?
Now that the wolf can be hunted, down around Yellowstone, I guess your "problem" will be solved.
Actually, the wolves will quickly learn that they are not harassed in the Park area, just as the elk have learned, and they will spend most of their time in the park.
Now, I would like to see actual numbers on how the elk population in and around Yellowstone has dropped the enormous percentages I see bandied about here.
It would be interesting to see what the wildlife people say about the drop in elk numbers, and if their numbers support what is being said.
British Columbia has a large wolf population, and there is certainly no huge decline in elk and moose numbers, save in a few smaller locations.
While it is easy to blame the wolf, and state that these "Canadian" wolves aren't a native species. Just what was the genus of the wolf that "historically inhabited Yellowstone" was, if not a grey/timber wolf?
I don't think that the red wolf ever ranged that far north. And seeing as how the wolves in southern BC don't recognize national boundaries, I am quite sure that they travel into northern Montana, and Idaho, or even further south.
There is certainly nothing to stop a wolf from travelling, just as elk and other animals tend to do.
And as to "what they do to elk to cattle" well, the same as we do to them. Kill and eat them.
The fact that a wolf is relegated to killing its prey by biting and tearing at that prey, is of God's design.
So, I guess we have some special "right" to kill and eat, over what a wolf has?
I would hazard to guess that wolves have been killing and eating elk longer than humans have.
Don;t have anything against hunting wolves, trapping wolves, etc. But with the bans on 1080, and other horrid poisons, I don't think that hunting pressure will make much of dent in the wolf population.
It took quite a while to poison the wolf into near extinction, so hunting will take much longer to impact on the wolf numbers.
And if you happen to kill the alpha male, or alpha female, the remaining pack may split up into more numerous breeding pairs, and that results in . . . .more wolves.
I just don't understand the vitriol leveled at an animal, that is just doing as its instincts tell it do, to survive.
Good luck with your wolf hunting. Their fur is quite nice, and makes a great throw or rug. The skulls are sold too, I am told.
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