Should I shoot and trap more wolves?

Question

I am really thinking of shooting the max I am allowed in hunting season (5) and trapping as many as I can (unlimited numbers allowed by law, in my part of Alaska)

So should I go for the gold and trap about 20 or so and make $400 to $500 each? And other than saving the hide and skull should I leave the wolf carcass for the ravens and scavengers to devour? Or feed it to my chickens?
Its not like we are short on wolves here, Fish and Game wants more trapped.

I hunt and trap them every year anyway. But lately I have been sent lots of hate mail from wolf lovers and had my Top Contributor status removed here for defending wolf hunting and fellow hunters. Thus giving me far more motivation to kill far more wolves. After all they killed some of my dogs and a few of my grandchildren pets and have all but wiped out small game in my area.

Hunters answer only please.

Answer 1

If Fish and Game says that they need to be thinned out, then go for it and make a few bucks in the process. If your chickens will eat the wolf meat, give it to them according to their dietary needs. What they can't eat, leave for the carrion eaters in the woods. Everybody needs to eat.



Oh, by the way, screw the wolf lovers who oppose ligitimate animal control. Most of them think Bambi is a real wildlife story and that animlas are cute, fuzzy and talk. Don't pay any attention to them, you do what you know is right and let them go suck rocks.

Answer 2

I know those touchy feely animal rights folks can tick off any hunter, but don’t let them get to ya buddy! They have never had a pack of wolves surround your winter camp trying to kill your sled dogs or had a loved animal killed by them. They are controlled by emotions; not logic, data or reason.



As for Yahoo well we all know how that works! It’s the toss of a coin if an employee of theirs is a hunter or a PETA member and more likely the later.



I say trap those wolves! Make some cash. But never over trap any area. I am sure you won’t over trap an area as any old school trapper knows better than that!

Frankly I too will reduce the number of wolves in my area (which happens to be your area as well). Tired of no grouse, swans havin their young killed and moose calves being killed by wolves. Fish and Game is right, there are too many in our area. And not enough in other places in South East Alaska. No one will pay the million to relocate them so killin them is the only answer where there are too many.

Just so you folks know how bad it is in our neck of the woods, last year I saw only 3 grouse, 5 years ago I would see 40 to 60 while out in the woods. Every swan nest I found had its young killed. We had a bad winter kill of deer so the wolves are killin everything they can find too eat. I saw many moose cows with calves last spring by summer the wolves had killed them all. That was around 50 little moose claves gone. And deer? LOL WHAT DEER? If we don’t reduce the wolf numbers they will kill out their entire food source and starve to death. And that my friends would be MORE dead wolves than what all the trappers and hunters here could possibly kill.

Answer 3

If they are as big as a problem as you say then take as many as you can and make some money, and use the carcass to feed the chickens (you know as hunters we need to use as much as the kill as we can). I'm no anti-hunter by any means, but I can say I am not a supporter of hunting to extinction. Wolves can be a pain in the a** but we need them, so when hunting use your common sense

Answer 4

From what I have seen and read lately, the wolves in Alaska have turned into a major problem. You should harvest as many as possible before they wipe out the other wildlife and pets in the area. No matter what the huggers think, when the other game is gone the wolves WILL start in on people.

Answer 5

I like animals and all, the wolf is a cool predator etc, etc.



But lets be realistic,

You mentioned the F&G said they needed for some wolves to be harvested. Go for it. It is a win win situation, everybody wins including the wolf population. We wouldnt want those animals to overpopulate the area, it is bad for their species. Im pretty sure you can trust the F&G´s judgment far better than some (P)oorly (E)ducated (T)een (A)ctivists, right?

Answer 6

When you've reached your limit, come to my state. Since protecting the timber wolf, their numbers have grown, they have run out the coyotes to further south. We never used to fear for our pets & tiny children like we need to now. When you are done with this, there's a mountain lion I'd like gone too. Do wolves get mange, not sure I would feed that to chickens. It's expensive to taxidermy, are the heads really worth keeping? Sounds like you have way too many as they are becoming a hungry menace. Keep up the good work as long as the Fish & Game says to.



Not a hunter, but lived & know the rural life.

Answer 7

Well, what do you do with them when you trap them? It sounds like you kill them, so I don't understand, what's the difference if you shoot them or if you trap them if they're going to die anyway?



How do you make the money off them, do people eat them, or make rugs or something?



Oh. Well, don't shoot them then, because then it will screw up the fur.

Answer 8

Sure, why not? It makes you more money, you get to hunt more, I see no downsides. You better leave the carcass for ravens and the like, it leaves a smaller ecological footprint.

Answer 9

I think the common sense thing to do is defer to the education and experience of the expert professionals at F&G , not the nonsensical ramblings of people who can't tell the difference between humans and soulless lower animals



If they want more dead wolves give them more dead wolves

Answer 10

If you harvest it, eat the meat.



Selling the fur or using it to make your own clothing is your choice.



Honor what you harvest. Do not waste it. Before you hunt, find people and/or organizations that will best utilize what you may not need for yourself.

Answer 11

Shoot them! Give carcass to scavengers!*

Answer 12

No have you even noticed that already one wolf species is extinct? Why don't you go out and do something fun in life instead of killing animals that should be left alone? You shouldn't be defending wolf hunters or trappers you should leave the wolfs alone so their population can stabalized again instead of being further diminished.

Answer 13

you should not shoot or trap any animal cause the animals that you are trapping could be someone's family member in spirit and everyone that you kill you are removing the spirit from the soul and to do that is to basically kill the person completely I am Native cherokee and it is our beliefs that to kill is to survive but to murder is to remove the entity of the soul and just think bout it would you wanna kill your members of your family even after they have passed and there souls are journeying the earths foreground for another baby's birth or which ever you might believe in

Answer 14

Get err done.*

Answer 15

shoot'em all