What you don't want to see...

[Peplin Creek]

Yeah that’s no good. They’ll take down whatever they can get a hold off. I did have them one year and then they vanished. So hopefully you’ll have similar luck.

Remember that they are still federally protected. So taking the law into your own hands could be a felony if caught. Possible year in jail and up to 100,000 fine. I’d, at the very least, wouldn’t even think about touching the collared one. Hopefully they‘ll get off that protected list soon.

 

[NorthWI]

hate to be this guy, but they got to eat too?

I enjoy having a wide range of critters on my lands, don't have wolves here, so, cannot say for sure if my view of having a mix and THEM would change, but for now, I would enjoy seeing them now and then if I could here

all my experiences with them have been in places far from where I live, so, guess I have a different view and no real , hands on here to maybe say so??

I do have a lot of bears, coyotes and hunters? and for me worse, poachers and trespassers that cheat all yr round!

harder to get away with shooting them I gather than wolves might be LOL

I'm lucky to just have wolves, no poachers or trespassers that I know of...

 

[cavey]

hate to be this guy, but they got to eat too?

I enjoy having a wide range of critters on my lands, don't have wolves here, so, cannot say for sure if my view of having a mix and THEM would change, but for now, I would enjoy seeing them now and then if I could here

all my experiences with them have been in places far from where I live, so, guess I have a different view and no real , hands on here to maybe say so??

I do have a lot of bears, coyotes and hunters? and for me worse, poachers and trespassers that cheat all yr round!

harder to get away with shooting them I gather than wolves might be LOL

I hear ya... I ride the fence on wolves in Wisconsin... just not 100% sure we need them. I dont hate them - just not sure we need them in WI - in a perfect world yes but here now?? I dont want black bears down here so I get why many do not like wolves up there.
Having apex predators and the wildlife populations up north to support them is a pretty good sign you have a healthy, robust and diverse wildlife portfolio. I personally believe the WI DNR has done more to destroy the deer populations up north - more so then bears and wolves ever have - their (the DNR's) politically driven special interest decision making process has wrecked the traditional Wisconsin way of hunting I grew up knowing. Earn a buck T-zones, no baiting , bonus tags - extra extra tags and the extra extra extra liberal ass issuing of doe tags a few years back put the deer populations in a spot they have yet to have recovered from. That being said I have spent enough time up north running dogs and hunting deer to know how people feel up there about yotes and wolves. Its a pretty cool picture - none the less.
A buddy/neighboring land owner was out walking his land last weekend and came across a litter sleeping just out side of their den... must have been playing and all took a nap. I told him wow that's really cool - pretty rare to see that. Now you have to decide whether or not your going to kill them. Pretty hard for a normal person to kill puppies even these so they got a reprieve/stay of execution till older.

 

[Turkish]

I think we should all strive for our land to be as much like it was 300+ years ago as possible, whether that includes good deer hunting, wolves, turkey, quail.

 

[NorthWI]

Turkish are you an idealist? Are you calling for a destruction of all dams to untame our water ways, return all farmland to natural grasslands. Outlaw all fences so millions of bison can roam again naturally across the great plains.

 

[Turkish]

Turkish are you an idealist? Are you calling for a destruction of all dams to untame our water ways, return all farmland to natural grasslands. Outlaw all fences so millions of bison can roam again naturally across the great plains.

No. I pick and choose. But if I live in a historical floodplain, I get insurance. Some things are necessary for prosperity. Some are not. It’s certainly shades of grey.

 

[NorthWI]

No. I pick and choose. But if I live in a historical floodplain, I get insurance. Some things are necessary for prosperity. Some are not. It’s certainly shades of grey.

I agree. I was just giving you a bit of a hard time... It is hard though seeing new predators in our area that have not been around for a long time. One of my favorite things to do is go grouse hunting with my beloved German Short haired Pointer Otto, now we have had wolves kill hunting dogs in our direct area and that worries me a lot. I care way more for my prized family/hunting dog than for any wild reintroduced wolf.

 

[Turkish]

I’d gladly go back to the days of few deer and plentiful quail around here!

I’m a proud GSP dad, too, though mine has never hunted and is getting pretty long in the tooth.

 

[cavey]

One good thing about wolves is your bird populations should go up... they dont tolerate other canines like foxes and yotes - especially around there den sites or pups. Yotes and foxes of which are better birders - much better then wolves... of course they dont like bear hounds either. We used to have tons of red foxes till the coyotes moved in and drove the fox out - its rare to see a fox around here now.