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WDFW enforcement Officer Pam Taylor steadies a male gray wolf in
Pend Oreille County that has been temporarily sedated so it can
be equipped with a satellite radio tracking collar.
After being fitted with a satellite radio collar, this male
wolf will return to his pack.
Wolves of
the "Diamond Pack" in Pend Oreille County.
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Important Considerations
1. Why is "Hunting" not listed as the eventual
management tool in the Washington Wolf Plan?
2. What's the cost to tax payers
if "Hunting" is not allowed after wolf numbers have rebounded?
3. What are
the dangers to humans of an un-hunted, un-afraid, wolf population?
4
.
How will Washington's limited elk and deer herds survive an un-hunted wolf population?
5
. What
are
the dangers to livestock and ranching of unhunted wolf populations?
6. Does the
current Draft Wolf Plan
require too many wolves throughout most
of Washington?
7. Does the WDFW have wolf biologist's with
prior hands-on wolf experience drafting the Wolf Plan?
8. When wolves
multiply will hunters likely lose hunting opportunity?
9. Could a small
carefully managed population of wolves coexist with WA
residents without altering our current
lifestyles?
10. Would you
prefer the
"Minority Position of fewer wolves" to be used in the Washington Wolf Plan?
11. Do you want
"Hunting" to be listed in the Wolf Plan language as the
eventual management tool.
12. Should
people be allowed
to protect their pets and livestock from
wolves that are in the act of attacking them?
WDFW enforcement Officer Pam Taylor steadies a male gray wolf in
Pend Oreille County that has been temporarily sedated so it can
be equipped with a satellite radio tracking collar.
After being fitted with a satellite radio collar, this male
wolf will return to his pack.
Wolves of
the "Diamond Pack" in Pend Oreille County.
Lack Of Fear
Skinner was
correct. The areas of Asia where wolf attacks occur on
humans are the same areas where people have no firearms or
other effective means of predator control:
See
Wolf-Human Encounters
One of four photographs taken by Chris van
Gelder of Todd Svarchopf fending off an
aggressive wolf on November 4th 2005. This was
only four days
before the
Carnegie Wolf Attack.
Kenton Joel Carnegie
Unarmed engineering student killed by wolves a few days later in the same area
of Saskatchewan where the aggressive wolf had confronted
Todd Svarchopf.
Why
Hunt
Wolves?
Analyzing the history of
wolf-human and wolf-livestock conflicts in areas where
wolves are hunted as compared to areas where wolves are not
hunted, it is easy to conclude that wolves need to be hunted
to reinforce their fear of ranching operations and humans so
wolves and humans can co-exist in today's world.
History
of Attacks
When settlers
began colonizing the continent, they noticed that while local
wolves were more numerous than in Europe, they were less
aggressive.[11]
In Canada, an
Ontario newspaper offered a
$100 reward for proof of an unprovoked wolf attack on a human.
The money was left uncollected.[3]
Though
Theodore Roosevelt considered
the large timber wolves of north-western Montana and Washington
equal to Northern European wolves in size and strength, he noted
they were nonetheless much shyer around man.[12]
In modern times,
humans begin to encroach on wolf habitats more contacts are
being recorded. Often the contact is because the person is
walking their pet
dog, and the wolf pack
considers the dog a prey item, inciting an attack.[13][14][15][16]
Retired wolf biologist Mark McNay compiled 80 events in Alaska
and Canada where wolves closely approached or attacked people,
finding 39 cases of aggression by apparently healthy wolves, and
29 cases of fearless behavior by non-aggressive wolves.[17]
Unlike the grey
wolf, the
red wolf has not been known to
attack people. However, packs of red wolves were reported to
scavenge on battlefield corpses during the
Mexican-American War
.
