11-17-2014, 11:52 PM
montana Wrote:My dis-like for wolves comes from my experience from once was a hunters paradise called Montana. Before the vermin were so rapidly proliferated I was always able to fill my elk and deer tags from my many hunting areas. Today all my favorite hunting areas have been decimated by wolves. Fish creek, 9 mile, Rye creek in the Bitterroot, Ovando, the Black foot, the Swan, Lobo mason mtn, etc. My friend who is an accomplished mountain lion hunter has had three of his dogs killed by wolves. When I worked in Idaho on the 300 road and in the Magruder crossing area all we saw were wolves. Another friend who owns horses has hunted the Fish Creek area past hole in the wall most of his life and has always tagged his elk since he was a boy, quit hunting because of the decimation of game by wolves. I have many rancher friends who shoot them on sight. My son works with the Fish Wildlife and parks and most of the older Wardens have nothing but contempt for wolves when asked in private.There was a reason we spent millions in the past eradicating them but I guess we are in a new era of thinking.
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