Nice to know another Yooper eh. I am from Lake Linden and Houghton. Where are at in Alaska? There is also a lynx tracking program goin on in the Tetlin Flats.

was there a tatoo in the gum?

No tattoos. I was in touch with someone from tetlin he was passing on the pictures to the people that do the tagging there. He said they didn't think it was their tags and said it may be from kluane np in the yukon

It's Biden's Open Border policy at work again, Ryan.....!

Pete

I caught 2 different collared wolves. One was a male that had been sterilized and released a couple days prior about 30 air miles from where we snared it. The second wolf was a collar that Gordon Haber used and adf&g knew about his use and history of the pack.

It was the alpha she was white and the pack was all black. She would travel away from the pack. She was trapped walking alone on our sno go trail in a p post set and the pack was on a game trail at a creek that out trail was 1/2 mile away that in the valley we trapped. The collar provided the denning location and the biologist at adf&g was able to give me all that information. That winter we reduced the black wolf population. Up until I quit I caught black wolves!



Sorry for the poor photo but this is the Alpha.



Caught later that winter

You Alaska guys are lucky. I killed a collared wolf here in Idaho and I wanted to know where and when it was collared, etc. F&G told me to pound sand, well more politely, but not a lot more polite. They literally told me they would give me no information on the wolf. They certainly had no hesitation to tell me when brought it in to get the hide checked and mentioned it was wearing a collar, that they weren't tagging the hide until I gave them the collar!

Oh Snap: why was the male wolf sterilized? So it could hopefully dummy breed the alpha female and thus reduce the wolf population that way?

Ole Gordy!

adfg

Wolves
Wolf fertility control and translocations are scheduled for 4 consecutive winters (1997-1998,
1998-1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001) and will involve sterilizing adult pairs and
translocating the remaining wolves in no more than 15 packs.
Using radiotelemetry, we will monitor distribution and numbers of wolves in treated and
several adjacent untreated packs during this study. Our hypothesis is that sterilization will not
reduce the chance of maintaining a territory or increase the probability of dispersal, as
previously observed in smaller study samples by Mech et al. ( 1996) in Minnesota and RD
Hayes (pers commun) in the Yukon. To ensure that sterilization does not interfere with
gonadal cycling, males will be vasectomized by surgical techniques (Pineda and Hepler 1981 ).
Females will be tubally ligated. A qualified veterinary surgeon will conduct the surgical
sterilizations.
We will monitor survival rates and homing abilities of translocated wolves to determine if
young, translocated wolves regularly succumb near release sites, return to or attempt to return
to capture sites, or disperse widely from release .sites (Fritts et al. 1985). Fritts et al. (1985)
concluded that survival of translocated wolves was comparable to that of other wolves and
that pup wolves remained at release sites longer and had poorly developed homing abilities
compared to those of adults. We will test these hypotheses using similar techniques. Wolf
translocation and moving procedures will follow those of ritts et al. ( 1984) in Minnesota with
the following exceptions: 1) most wolves will be moved from October through June, but no
wolves <5 months old will be moved, and 2) all wolves will be moved at least 100 miles
( 160 km) because of homing tendencies. Release sites will have prey densities greater than or
equal to prey densities in the Fortymile range.
We will estimate wolf harvest rates in the respective annual ranges of the Fortymile caribou
herd to monitor effects of harvests, translocations, and sterilizations on wolf numbers.

Sterilization was tried but I don’t know if it continued. It didn’t help with the wolf we caught. He only lasted a couple days after release.

I might want to kill myself as well if someone stole my balls.

-TJ

From this year..

[quote=Top Jimmy

I might want to kill myself as well if someone stole my balls.

-TJ[/quote]

There ya go....!

Pete

Colorate lynx,s traped in alberta ca.3000 mile,s from home.

Would that ( Colorado lynx trapped in Alberta Ca. returned home after 3000 mile return trip) be the way it is written ?

Trailblazer are those tags phosphoresence so trail cameras can pick them up with a flash?

I heard back from the folks from Tetlin nwr and after some digging he said the cat came from Kluane lake NP. That's 450 miles on a straight line. I'm going to contact them to see if there is any additional info.

Wow. Pretty cool.

Good stuff. Let us know if you find out more

Dang that was a hike for him for sure!!

It's confirmed this cat came from Kluane lake in Canada. It was one of 6 lynx that were implanted with a device that monitors heart beat and internal temperature. I didn't find it but there was a rub and old wound near the intestines that may have been it. They called it Tony the tiger because of its orange and black tags. The tags were used to identify the animal with camera traps. He was last photographed in August of 2020 in the Kluane lake area. So he traveled all the way to Rainy pass in little over a year. He was loaded with fat and seemed to be in very good shape.

Wow! That is awesome!