The only good wolf is a DEAD wolf!
Wildlife photography site
Now THAT is a massive wolf. Check out these photos, this guy is amazing.
http://www.terramagica.ca/TM_website/wolves/wolves.html
The following is the main site.
http://www.terramagica.ca/
Last edited by BCBound; November 26th, 2011 at 02:00 AM.
"It's a curious fact that estimated lengths and weights tend to make a fish larger than it really is!" Mike Maxwell, 'The Gilly'
The only good wolf is a DEAD wolf!
Pretty much the most ignorant thing I've ever read on the internet! Congrats.Originally Posted by johnk
The only good wolf is a DEAD wolf!
How do ya figure? I thought personally, that there was a very valid point to it.
Why do I spend more time tying flies than catching fish?
I trust he was being sarcastic or jokin in his comment, being a super moderator and all. Lots of kids look at this site for guidance in our sport.....
I figure it this way. I find the photo and the hill-billy in it totally disgusting. I hope the comment was made sarcastically, but that's why everyone uses lol orto convey that in print so people get it. Maybe a typo. Either way, screw that wolf murdering mutt! I showed this to my wife and she almost cried. How anyone can think a hero show with a majestic animal such as that can be cool is beyond me. Won't waste my time with this thread anymore.
Even supermoderators have personal opinions! Wolves have nothing to do with guidance in "our sport". I just happen to be out in the bush parts of every month of the year and if you'd seen what I have seen you wouldn't think wolves so majestic. They decimate the survival rate of elk and moose calves. Last week I came upon a pack of twelve ripping apart a cow and calf moose and there was blood spattered in a 30' radius. Have you ever heard a calf moose scream for it's mother?
i have helped locals hunt down the wolves that have killed their chickens and/or young cows. Pet dogs are lured into the bush, killed and left. So, enjoy your "majestic creatures" and I'll continue to do what I do.
In retrospect I was probably a little harsh with my comment and I apologize for that but I do have a seething hatred for wolves and where I live if you have a deer, elk or moose tag you can shoot wolves!
Beautiful photography on the link though..........................
Respectfully, I reply as best I can despite my snide remarks on the parallel thread adressing this issue.
Certainly we all have our opinions, but isn't the wolf entitled to it's nature as much as every other creature (aside from man who has the capability, and some think duty, to be aware of his/her behavior and make wise and compassionate decisions with both a sense of perspective and retrospective) ?
So, many of us have had experiences with wolves and other creatures of the forest. Predators kill, prey are hunted - to each their own aside from man. So if a wolf pack kills a calf and cow and we hear it's cries, does that make it any more sympathetic a scene than if they kill a domestic dog, or some unheard old sick bull? Such emotional arguments...
If a farmer looses livestock to wild creatures, is that not a lesson in man's proximity to the wilderness? Should not man be humbled and change his behavior rather than lash out with violence against a force he barely understands? Perhaps domesticated chickens or sheep are not well suited for BC or North America? Perhaps one should not blame or persecute the wolf for it's nature, but rather recognize that a different, non-confrontational path could be followed.
I have had countless encouters with wild predators and have no way of identifying with any sort of hatred for wild animals of any kind, so perhaps that explains my perspective. I feel no lasting sorrow for a wolf killing a deer or any other prey animal which it has killed since some time immemorial. In contrast, my experiences have only left me with a greater sense of respect for these animals, whether bear, cougar, wolverine or wolf, but rarely man.
I also have little access to understanding an argument which seems to hinge on something akin to a primal fear of predators which appear to challenge mankind for a perceived dominance over nature.
As a hunter, I do not feel threatened by wolves which might prey on deer, elk or moose which I might choose to target, just as I do not feel threatened by seals or orca's who might prey on the salmon I wish to catch. While I do not feel entirely seperate from nature, I do not feel I need to lash out in some way against those animals which compete with me for my prey. I feel I am a better hunter/fisher than that.
That being said, if someone has some population dynamics data which they would like to present in relation to this topic, I would like to learn more.
Last edited by btree; November 27th, 2011 at 10:16 PM.
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