Comments on: Idaho F&G Announces Wolves Major Cause Of Elk Kills http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/28/idaho-fg-announces-wolves-major-cause-of-elk-kills/ Online Hunting Magazine Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Cady http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/28/idaho-fg-announces-wolves-major-cause-of-elk-kills/comment-page-1/#comment-1841 John Cady Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:08:34 +0000 http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/28/idaho-fg-announces-wolves-major-cause-of-elk-kills/#comment-1841 You have the wolves competing with the hunters for the game. When elk hunters call for elk and get ansewered by wolves rather than elk it does not make for a pleasant experience. If you do the math, Idaho has 125,000 elk and hunters have a 15% sucess rate that equals 18,750 elk for the hunters. Now take the 800 wolves taking a elk every other week and you come up with 20,800. Fish and game is largely funded by fees and a substancial portion of that is paid by hunters. I say until the conservationist start paying an equal share let the hunters start killing wolves as they do not pay a dime to suport the fish and game department. The fish and game department is required to manage the game I also say they should manage the game and either start reducing the number of wolves themselves or allow the hunters to do it for them. John Cady You have the wolves competing with the hunters for the game. When elk hunters call for elk and get ansewered by wolves rather than elk it does not make for a pleasant experience. If you do the math, Idaho has 125,000 elk and hunters have a 15% sucess rate that equals 18,750 elk for the hunters.

Now take the 800 wolves taking a elk every other week and you come up with 20,800. Fish and game is largely funded by fees and a substancial portion of that is paid by hunters. I say until the conservationist start paying an equal share let the hunters start killing wolves as they do not pay a dime to suport the fish and game department.

The fish and game department is required to manage the game I also say they should manage the game and either start reducing the number of wolves themselves or allow the hunters to do it for them.

John Cady

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