me being a hound hunter you can't hunt around wolves 'cause you'll get your dogs all ate up(i mean in fights by that) I HATE WOLVES!!!

I live in the Bozeman, Mt. area, and bowhunt elk in nearby Gallatin Nat'l forest. I am more concerned about bears than wolves, especially a sow w/ cubs. Wolves are not fond of human interaction....that's why you rarely see them. I don't worry about wolves, and I don't pack a firearm due to weight limitations. I do believe they have been tough on the local elk population.

thay are one of the best animals for the wild they kill the old and sick and help to keep the animal under controlthe ones to worry about is the coyots they kill just for the fun of it even your cat dogs ect

wolves do in fact, most of the time, pick out the sick and the weak. wolves in the barren lands run a herd of caribou till the young and slow fall out( aka the weak ones) and then they try to make a kill. Even then they are not always succesful. House cats are a far more talented predator. Plus we all have more to worry about from the democrats than the wolves.

I hunt with friends that live in NW Montana. The wolves are taking over to the point of it not being worthwhile to buy a nonres hunting license. While not having been physically chased from my hunting spots, the lack of game due to the wolves has chased me off from some places.
bhubbard64, if you believe in Creationism it doesn't matter who was here first. Man was given dominion over all creatures.

I don't know who told lordmichael that wolves eat the old and sick but the answer he posted is in reverse order. Coyotes are far more prone to take weak big game species than wolves. The largest pack of wolves I've personally seen is nine. I watched a pack of seven take down four calf elk and two cows (Hamstrung the cows first) and take off without eating anything. I watched the kill site for three days and never saw them return. On the fourth day a cougar drug one of the calves off and hid it.
So much for killing the old and weak.

There was a reason the old timers took out the majority of the wolf population in the U.S. over a hundred years ago. They tremendously thin out all of their prey populations and pose quite a threat to livestolk. They can then switch to another prey species (rabbits, birds, rats). Research has shown that coyotes, wolves, lions, etc, don't just thin out the weaker members of a herd. They will take out whatever runs through their path and they are very effecient killers. The problem with wolves is that they are a keystone predator and there is nothing to keep their popluation in check, with the exception of disease. When an area they hunt becomes depleted of its prey species, they can simply migrate. If humans don't control their numbers, the balance of species within an area will indeed be diminished.

hell I live in ALASKA...Ive never been chased off my hunting ground by anything, man or beast...

i dont live in wolf country but we have plenty of cyotes the deer numbers are way down this year and fortunitly they are legaly traped and hunted around my area i do both to stop them, they are starting to pack up late summer time and this year they tryed to get to the cows at my house