How many wolf trapper,s have trap a wolf and place a collar on them and trap them the nexted year.

??? What would be the purpose of that ?

I caught one last week brought it into the cabin, pull off it's pajamas and put him back outside. He was still there when I left in the morning. Does that count?

I have caught 2 collared wolves. They were both dead in a snare when I got there. Trappers in Alaska don't get collars to put on wildlife. The govt guys do that.
mt

We used to get money to turn in the collars on animals we harvested. Now no money and can hardly get a history report on the animal from ADF&G

They can be caught again beer

Still waiting for the answer to this question! I'm not big into "catch and release trapping," but I am dying to hear what it might accomplish.

Pete

I guess it sure would be easy to locate the pack if you had a collar one and a receiver in hand. This sure would save a lot of gas in the cubs this spring.

I know Pete caught one that was collared over in my neck of the woods. Part of the rat river pack and possibly same bloodlines as the 19 pack we seen last year. I think the collar was removed already? Just the ear tags were still on? Long distance traveller!

I got that collared wolf on the upper Toolik River on the North Slope. Back a few years ago. Like a good boy, I turned the collar in to ADFG. But they said it was not their collar. It turned out to be a Canadian collar and the animal had been collared at Rat River 5 years previously. Batteries were of course dead and no one had seen that rascal for a long time. Apparently he had gone walkabout with the Porcupine Caribou and wandered all the way west to AK! Hundreds of miles. Probably scared of Ryan's reputation as a trapper! Pretty cool to learn the history. (I still feel a little guilty about catching Ryan's wolf, but how could I have known?!!!!!)

I caught another collared wolf a few miles S of Fairbanks almost 30 years ago. It had been tagged/collared by ADFG down in GMU 13 near Lake Louise and made his way up into GMU 20A. That collar was still functional, so I knew everywhere he had been.

Pete

They do it in Michigan. Trying to keep the wolves safe.

How long do the batteries last on those collars?

The way things are going for me with wolves this year I'd say he would be safer over here. I actually found some pictures of that collaring project.

After the last round of collaring when they collared 1 big male each from 10 different packs I noticed a lot of lone wolves all collared. Wondering if the pack turns against them or maybe being handled by humans messes them up a bit? I was going home from bear hunting one spring and what I thought was a sheep turned out to be a white wolf. I went up to have a look but when I got to where I seen it he was gone. Windblown Ridge so no tracks to follow. I went back to the river to hook back up to my Boggan and guess what? Wolf was laying beside my sled! I pulled up and he ran uphill, I let him get far enough to minimize 270 impact and let her go. Pulled up to my dead wolf and pushed some hair aside(long haired wolf) and there was a collar. Oooòooops! Checked the field notes later on and seen that the wolf was collared within a mile or so of where I shot it. It was listed at 127 pounds but it looked like it lost a bunch of weight. Maybe stress? Maybe trying to feed itself after being in a pack? Hard to say. Seen a couple more during the sheep study we did and they were all alone too
One big grey was chasing ground squirrels and wasn't scared. He looked like he really wanted those squirrels too.

It was a long 20 some hour ride so that nice warm backrest was great!

Guys does the collar mess up the fur? I caught a collared coyote a few years back...fur was a wreck from the collar..no value.

Collar mark. Less guard hair. The collar was sitting on wooly underfur. Tanned and happy young feller!

My best collar story:

First, understand that collars keep transmitting, as long as the animal moves periodically. Only after it is stationary for a long period of time, does the collar emit a "mortality signal."

A local Native trapper (name redacted to protect the guilty, but some Interior AK guys will know to whom I refer...) who operated west of the Parks Hwy over toward Bearpaw and the Toklat, had some snare sets out for wolves. He was checking his line and came upon an airplane on skiis parked on the river at one of his sets. He cautiously walked in, only to find Gordon Haber messing around taking pictures of a big collared wolf, dead in a snare. This was in the days when Haber was on the payroll of Friends of Animals and actively harassing trappers and traplines. So this trapper was more than a little leary. Haber pressured the trapper into giving him (Haber) the collar so he could turn it in (it was a Park Service collar.) The trapper loaded the wolf on his sled and continued on his way. Later folks counseled him that it may have been a mistake to give the collar to the animal rights guy and that by law, he should have taken it to ADFG.

A couple months later, I saw this same trapper in Fairbanks. I asked him: "Catch any more collared wolves?" He aaid "Actually I did...!"

"What did you do with the collar?" I asked.

He winked at me and said: "I draped it over the handlebar on my snogo for a month. Then I just drove around and around.....!"

Gotta love Bush revenge with a humorous touch!

Pete

Should have then put the collar on an old horse.....but that is another story!

A guy shot a collared caribou on the highway one year. The bios were wondering why a caribou was doing 140 km down the road. Another guy I know shot a collared bear. When the bios went to track the bears they took off from the airport in aklavik and started getting a signal right away. After circling town a couple times and not spotting anything they decided to land and look on foot in case they had to warn people about a bear in town too I guess. They walked and eventually found a collar hanging on a nail on the guys porch.

beer...
I got no idea what you're looking for, and at this point I'm going to have to echo Pete's response ("What would be the good in that??). I've been marking (collaring, eartagging) wolves for 37 years for various outfits and in various places around the world, and putting collars on other predators (mink and marten to grizzlies and tigers) and following them around for 47 years. What info are you looking for?

Jack

The wifes older brother Amil in Buckland used to decorate his walls with Wolf collers, 20+ easily back then....Might still, but I havent visted in years, and he still hunts.

I had a collerd one double lung'd in the mid 90's, still alive and lips back, teeth out, his blood almost out, I was amazed how he stopped, snarled low and unflinchingly held himself when the back of my ax came down. He knew the Jig was up, and took it better than most Men.

How much black tape does a normal coller have?

lol

I be caught 13 over the years, all released with a collar. My friend shot one I released a year later

A lot less now than in the 90’s.