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Re: Wolves will be Delisted again
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:56 pm
by liontracker
Onalimb - was wondering what was said at the F&G meeting last night.
Did they say the Elk and Deer cutbacks were due to wolves?
Re: Wolves will be Delisted again
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:04 pm
by onalimb
They don't even try to make anyother claims, except for the fact we've had record snowfalls two winters in a row, and massive winter kill, especially last year. Combine that with the wolves, and the massive winter kills in 96/97, and the Elk are taking a beating they won't recover from at all unless everyone backs off the cows.
For all goods and purposes, there are no Elk in the St.Joe, or the North end of the Clearwater at all. If they are in there, they're so well hid nobody can find them. Last year they stood in the creeks and rivers with the deer and starved to death if the wolves didn't find them first. Winter grounds had 10-14 feet of snow in the bottoms. I know this to be fact, and in some areas, an understatement.