Good video. Settlers got rid of them for a reason

I knew they where hard on livestock and decimating the elk and moose but not to the degree he talks about. Knew they covered a lot of country but nothing like what he had seen

It will be intresting to see it play out in Colorado

Im surprised no one else has weighed in . Im from an eastern state that doesnt have them but it seems to me they are being placed on the landscape to decimate out west hunting

I agree. The animal rights religion preaches its wrong to eat any animal. Its okay for animals to eat animals though. They want to bring back the big swings of the pendulum they call the "balance" of nature rather than we humans keeping the swing of predator vs prey numbers to a minimum.

I just watched. Thanks for posting. I’m glad we don’t have them or at least not in any numbers here.

Very interesting info, goes against what I was brainwashed with in the 80’s for Dr. Mech. This guy knows his stuff.

Great article

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Here in northern NY State our moose population is slowly increasing, and our state constitution bans moose hunting. So there is renewed talk about wolf re-introduction or introduction depending on what species wolf they want turn loose. Instead of amending the state constitution and allowing science based moose management with limited hunting, all the city wolf huggers in their concrete jungles, would rather turn wolves loose on rural NY’ers and its wildlife.

I'd agree Danny. With wolves it doesn't seem have a "balance" from what I've read. They populate real fast when there's plenty of food then wipe out the prey species almost completely until they eat themselves then the prey species slowly start bouncing back. Seems human intervention is better than disease and starvation doing the work

That’s exactly what happened on Isle Royal with the moose and wolves for years until the wolves got so inbred they died off. And like he mentioned they brought the wrong subspecies of wolf back to the northern Rockies, but the prairie wolf is probably gone. Sounds like the big uns were starting to leak into Idaho anyway. I sure wish Gulo could weigh in on this thread.

In 1970 Minnesota DNR says there were 750 wolves. In 1975(ish) they relocated 104 wolves they claim because of livestock conflict. That, to me, is a fairly large % of the population. They were listed endangered in 1974. Their numbers rapidly increased (I'd say miraculously) The population increased approx 1000 animals every decade. Expanding it's territory and of course eating their way across the northern part of the state. That happened until the population hit the population goal that Minnesota DNR had. Then, almost like the wolves read all the paperwork, they quit the population explosion and it has remained steady. In 1997-1998 2445 wolves. In 2003, 3020 wolves. In 2023, 2919 wolves. Stop don't worry about them. Just tell the wolves the population goals and they will self regulate. In the early 2000's the moose population crashed. Surprisingly, the wolves had nothing to do with it, and they must have voluntarily quit eating because the population has remained stable. Now the deer population up north is very low in many places. The wolves have nothing to do with either, and I have to assume they have voluntarily quit eating again to let the deer make a comeback. So you can see, the wolves won't hurt anything. People are routinely seeing them in southern Minnesota now. On trail cams, on farms, and maybe 10 years ago, a coyote hunter killed one accidentlly while coyote hunting near Rochester. I have no worries though, because the state wolf population is the same as it was for at least 20 years. So the wolves know what they are doing. Some of these numbers I had to look up, some came from my memory. So feel free to fix my mistakes. l know there are guys on here who are very informed about the wolves.

Statistics don't lie people do