Wolves Return to Northeast!

[metis]

We have wolves in da U.P., and they generally pose no harm to humans with the exception of children, and it's good to have them around to quelle overpopulation of deer, for just one example.

 

[Subduction Zone]

We have wolves in da U.P., and they generally pose no harm to humans with the exception of children, and it's good to have them around to quelle overpopulation of deer, for just one example.

Children quelle overpopulation of deer? I had no idea that they were so hungry

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

I'm happy to say that today, wolves are still abundant in Canada. About 10 sub-species of the grey wolf still occupy about 90% of their historical territory, and still play their important role in maintaining balance among all the critters that occupy this vast, mostly empty, land. The only places they have pretty much disappeared is in the primarily urban areas north of Lake Ontario, parts of the St. Lawrence River, and a few urban areas in the west.

It has to be remembered that about 20% of everybody who lives in Canada actually lives within a couple of hundred miles of where I live, which is mid-town Toronto on Lake Ontario. That is, 20% of all Canadians live in small area of 33,500 square kilometers, out of a country that's actually 9,985,000 square kilometers. We got tons of room for wildlife -- including wolves.

 

[Valjean]

jbg said:
Culling the deer population in rural areas benefits those areas; wolf pack attacks on human crowds in cities confer no such benefit.

Wolf pack attacks on humans in cities? I've never heard of such a thing. Any wolf attacks involving North American wolves is extremely rare, unlike attacks by dog packs or individual dogs.

My area has numerous coyotes, occasional bears or bobcats, and quite likely a cougar or two, which you wouldn't see anyway, since they're extremely furtive. I have no worries walking anywhere, urban or rural, night or day. It's people I worry about, not the local wildlife. They have no beef with me.

 

[Valjean]

Children quelle overpopulation of deer? I had no idea that they were so hungry

Yoopers do like their venison.

 

[Valjean]

Cars and people with livestock, pets, kids and guns are the biggest issue for wolves here

Wolves were reïntroduced to the Southwest corner of my state (New Mexico) some years ago, but haven't made it this far North yet. There was and is opposition to them, but it's not from fear for humans. It's cowherds and shepherds who oppose them -- and will sometimes shoot them on sight.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Question, how many posting here are from or live close to the area the wolves are being reintroduced?

We already have coyote and a few coy wolves, not so many mountain lions. And the last time DEC reintroduced something it was a lynx...and all were dead within a year

Farmers are just going to shoot them to protect their livestock.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

The wolves arrived in the Northeast...just in time for torrential flooding...yikes!

 

[Wu Wei]

Farmers are just going to shoot them to protect their livestock.

Wolves were reïntroduced to the Southwest corner of my state (New Mexico) some years ago, but haven't made it this far North yet. There was and is opposition to them, but it's not from fear for humans. It's cowherds and shepherds who oppose them -- and will sometimes shoot them on sight.

Between cars and guns, I am not sure they have much of a chance... but maybe they will take hold

 

[metis]

Yoopers do like their venison.

I like venison but won't kill a deer, and the irony is that I come from an extended family of hunters.