Super pack' of 400 Wolves terrorise remote Russian town

[Buffalobob]

The major flaw with the Wolf Reintroduction Program in the US is that they forgot to reintroduce the wolves' primary food source-Bison. I'm no expert but from what I have read, the wolf populations have gone completely askew from their projected models. They have already moved as far south as central Colorado as of a year or two ago. These wolf populations will annihilate the elk, deer and sheep populations.

No one forgot. The reintroduction of large numbers of bison is opposed by ranchers who receive a form of welfare by grazing their cows on public land at reduced rates. The buffalo herd in the Henry Mountains of Utah where I killed mine was limited to 200 animals even though it was all BLM land and that was in 1980. The once in a life time permit drawing was a means of culling the excess animals. The same thing occurs in Wyoming.

Having been in the restoration business most of my life, I can tell you that there is no road map for restoring a river, lake or animal population that has been destroyed. You do the best you know how to do and often you make mistakes.

[badshot]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Vaccines causing Autism was a complete scam and very deliberate, real doctors pointed out that long ago that the individual and the research was complete BS.

Global Warming is a political and money driven unsubstantiated theory.

My point was about the real, unintentional mistakes scientists make, not scams.

Point taken. You are correct, I got off topic on another wolf issue that is not directly related to this post.

Everyone makes mistakes, myself included.

[Buffalobob]

As I said earlier the opposition to bison is from the ranchers.


http://indiancountrynews.net/index.p...059&Itemid=118

But attorneys for the Interior Department said in a response filed with Lovell last week that stopping the slaughter would allow bison to enter parts of Montana where they could spread brucellosis to livestock.

The attorneys also warned that if the migration of the “massive wild animals” is not put in check, they will enter agricultural and inhabited areas where they could jeopardize public safety, cause property damage, compete with livestock for grazing and destroy crops.

The Yellowstone wolves don't seem to be very effective so far in controlling bison populations but then it is early to tell how things are going to play out.


http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/wolves.htm

These wolves have plentiful, semi domesticated not very wild animals to prey upon and have chosen to protect large territories in moderate sized packs irregardless of food supply. This territoriality has caused an expansion out of the Park for the excess wolves and has caused behavioral changes in the prey animals. If food became scarce the question would be how would the packs behave.