If your reason for killing the wolf is that your sheep were killed...wtff makes you think that baiting a Yellowstone wolf to kill will fix your problem? This is the kind of non-logic that is the bane of this nation. Of the world. There are methods available to protect sheep. If the rancher is conscientiously using sound protection methods and still losing livestock, you can take it out of my tax dollars and I will never say an ill word about it. Fair is far. But this shtuff is far from that scenario and the rancher could have had that info easily. LETS NOT forget that hes BAITING the top predators onto his property. What kind of hunter would do that? Someone who wanted to handle the problem would ... I dunno ... derp ... track the attackers? Bet my brother, Pookie wouldve done it successfully. But then again...my brother never felt that he had to participate in some kind of macho dick contest to be a man. Thats kind of like saying that since a five foot six man raped my kid, I get to invite other five foot six men onto my property to kill. Crazy. -- Yellowstone Park wolf biologist Doug Smith learned of the dead wolf Monday morning from FWP wolf biologist Abby Nelson. Smith said park wolves were not responsible for the 13 sheep killed on Hoppe’s property April 24. Nelson said the wolf tracks she found two weeks ago came from the east side of the Gardiner Valley, down Little Trail Creek and across U.S. Route 89. Smith said 831F was a 2-year-old female that normally lives farther south in the park’s Hayden Valley. “She was showing dispersal behavior — with the pack, then gone, then back — but we did not have her close to the scene at the time of the sheep kill,” Smith said. “She had bad luck — wrong place at the wrong time.” The wolf may have her nose to blame for that bad luck. In mid-April, Hoppe, a cattle rancher and hunting outfitter, bought about 30 sheep and started raising them on his property. On April 24, he awoke to find that two wolves had killed five ewes and eight lambs along the river. After Wildlife Services investigated the scene, Hoppe told the Chronicle that he would transplant the remaining sheep and leave the carcasses on a bone pile on his property. Carnivores, including wolves and grizzly bears, can smell carcasses a mile away, sometimes farther if conditions are right, Smith said. Wolf 813F may have smelled the decaying meat. Hoppe has one permit left, and the carcasses remain.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:47:13 +0000
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