Hungry Timber wolves~

[Srputz]

I’m thinking they might do some damage to a sled. Little bigger than a yote

 

[snow]

SNOWMOBILER NEAR LONGVILLE, MN


JT THADEN | FEB 15, 2018 AT 7:43 AM

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FORD LAKE (KDLM) - A facebook video that has gone viral appears to show a pack of wolves encircling a snowmobiler preparing to attack on Ford Lake, near Longville, MN.
Rusty Lilyquist who posted the video on Feb. 12 says, "My friend was riding a snowmobile across a lake and a pack of wolves came in on him. He was taking a video until the pack separated and two wolves circled behind him."
According to the Timber Wolf Information Network wolf attacks are exceedingly rare. In 2010, a fatal wolf attack in Alaska marked only the second documented case ever of a wolf killing someone in the wild. There are some 77,000 wolves in North America. The first-ever confirmed case of fatal wolf attack in the wild in North America occurred in 2005, when Kenton Carnegie was attacked by a pack of wolves in Saskatchewan, Canada.
With a rising population of wolves and more of them attacking livestock and pets, a federal program to trap and kill problem wolves in northern Minnesota has run out of money.

While Great Lakes-region wolves are currently protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, they are listed as officially “threatened” in Minnesota — a step below endangered that allows U.S. Department of Agriculture trappers to kill wolves where livestock and pets have been killed.


But that Grand Rapids-based program, which has for decades killed about 180 wolves in Minnesota annually, blew through its budget this year and stopped operations last Friday.

 

[PrairieGhost]

I am not sure, but I'm very suspicious of some of our data. So few wolf attacks kind of sounds like global warming to me. Sort of like they only kill the sick and old. I know that's crap. I listened to a professor giving a lecture to his students on a field trip in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone. I have never heard so many false statements on any subject before in my life.

I have heard stories from old people in Europe about dragging ropes with slip knots behind the sled in winter to keep the wolves back. No one could afford a gun, and wolves didn't like stepping in those dragging ropes. I'm not 200 years old so I can't verify that. Could be the other end or the spectrum from that crazy professor.