Brian662
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Yeah, they were referenced in the first few minutes
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Howboutthemdawgs
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I feel so bad for yall who have to deal with the political nature of wolf management. Is there any organic groundswell around taking matters into your own hands and reducing wolves quietly in the name of preserve of what we love?
jsasker007
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What happens in the woods, stays in the woods. SSS
Brian662
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Yeah, until you realize they were collared. Friend of a friend found out the hard way in northern MN.
Howboutthemdawgs
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How far down a hole or in a lake do they transmit I wonder
Brian662
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Sounds like the lake would be a better option, cuz the hole wasn't deep enough.
jsasker007
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I won't go into shot placement but I would not try to drop it in it's tracks.
Telemark
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He buried it with the collar on?
Wind Gypsy
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Quite a few wolves do get shot illegally but it doesn't seem to move the needle a ton. 142 were killed in MN by fed trappers for depredation in 2022. Studies in AK suggest you'd need to kill something like over 40% of the wolves annually to meaningfully decrease the numbers otherwise they just have bigger litters and more pups survive. There were bounties on them in MN almost up until they were federally listed yet somehow a regulated hunting season would put them in peril. It's such nonsense.
The wolf issues make my blood boil but I do think there is more to it than just wolves causing the issues. They are a part of the landscape and will always be now so if we don't have good wintering habitat and severe winters, the deer numbers are going to hurt. BUT, if there were 30% less wolves on the landscape every spring due to fall/winter harvest, a lot more fawns would make it and there would still be a sustainable healthy wolf population.
jsasker007
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Also black bear get their fair share of fawns. Don't know the numbers of black bear currently but the bear sightings have been on the rise for a few years already.
Telemark
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My understanding of wolf hunting was not that it reduces the population but that it tends to keep them out of certain areas. If wolves are relentlessly persecuted in certain areas then they are more likely to leave that area and take up residence elsewhere.
Wind Gypsy
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I'm sure there's an element of that. It does seem like some deer stay near roads/development up in wolf country as wolves don't want to be around human disturbance. The story linked earlier in this thread where the 8 were trapped on one acre and assumed to be there because of lack of food (deer) away from development is a good illustration of how that works until they are hungry.
Brian662
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Something about the collar stops transmitting when the wolf's (multiple) stop moving and they see the last known location.
Telemark
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I'm guessing they would not have stayed there if they were being shot at.
Telemark
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Interesting. Would be good to find out exactly how those radio collars work.
Wind Gypsy
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Two collared wolves killed in northern Minn., found after transmitter continued monitoring after wolf dumped in frozen river
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is investigating two cases of wolf poaching in northern Minnesota. Both had collars on and one was found in a very unusual place ...
kstp.com
Wind Gypsy
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A collared wolf from Michigan’s U.P. roamed more than 4,000 miles before it was killed
The wolf was legally shot by a hunter in Canada more than a year after it was fitted with a GPS collar by Michigan’s DNR biologists.
Mortenson
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That map is insane. That dude saw some country. 4200 miles!A collared wolf from Michigan’s U.P. roamed more than 4,000 miles before it was killed
The wolf was legally shot by a hunter in Canada more than a year after it was fitted with a GPS collar by Michigan’s DNR biologists.www.mlive.com
Wind Gypsy
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Female Wolf Illegally Shot Dead in Minnesota, Leaves Behind Lone Wolf Male
The female's death marked the end of the Tamarack Pack, which held a territory to the southwest of the wider Voyageurs ecosystem.
www.newsweek.com
