I saw the last thread regarding wolves and I don't want to get into any personal comments, I just want to share a personal experience that I had with wolves in Northern Wisconsin during a deer hunting season 7 years ago. I was walking into my stand at 5:30 am and was bracketed by two adult wolves for the 3/4 of a mile walk into my tree stand. Upon arriving at my stand the two wolves left. By the way they were Grey in color. After sitting roughly 7 to 10 minutes in my tree stand two different color wolves one dark brown and the other one was jet black came from another direction. They seemed to be coordinating with the other two wolves that bracketted me on my walk in. Roughly a mile away from where I was at two weeks later two Grey colored wolves surrounded and circled a mother with her 6th grade son on their half mile walk from their house to her parents house on a county road. The boy had a knife and the boy and the mother went back to back always facing the wolves. After 10 minutes the wolves left the mother and child unharmed. I shudder to think what would have happened had the child walked alone to his grandparents house. These animals were extinct in our area for a reason....they do pose a risk. My cousin who lives not far from where I was hunting did have his coon hounds chained to their dog houses in the yard, had both of them killed while he was at work. The wolves came right in to the yard and had killed both dogs and had ripped them apart. What happens if his kids are outside playing and these wolves come back? I just think the risk outweighs the reward with these animals.
Wolves in Wisconsin
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Here is your Risk..
Average Number of Deaths per Year in the U.S
Bee/Wasp 53
Dogs 31
Spider 6.5
Rattlesnake 5.5
Mountain lion 1
Shark 1
Alligator 0.3
Bear 0.5
Scorpion 0.5
Centipede 0.5
Elephant 0.25
Wolf 0.1
Horse 20
Bull 3
Im guessing this stat is old since there was a death in AK in 2010. you can read about it here. http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/home/news/pdfs/wolfattackfatality.pdf
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http://historylist.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/human-deaths-in-the-us-caused-by-animals/
Almost reads as if someone took Little Red Riding Hood a little too seriously.
Hmm...probably the same thing thats befallen people walking through wolf territory since the dawn of man.....on average, absolutely nothing happens or onlly happens at a rate of .3 annually, at least in the US. Wolves are predators, and will act like predators. However, the odds of a human being atacked by a wild wolf are slim to none. Don't take the statistics quoted as saying I believe we should have an unchecked wolf population, but merely that the fear of a wolf attacking a human is generally wholly overblown, as it just doesn't happen in the vast majority of scenarios.
And that reason was fear and a lack of understanding of wildlife management, not an overabundance of little children being eaten by wolves. I grew up on a ranch. I understand that depredation is a real world issue for livestock producers, and will be the first to admit that wolves are not good for the livestock industry as a whole. However, depredation, and not attacks on children or any other humans, were what led to the extermination of the grey wolf from the great plains. If "ignorance" and "unchecked fear" are "reasons", then yes, the wolf was hunted to near extinction for a "reason". Now, the VALIDITY of that reasoning can CERTAINLY be debated, as can the spread of wolves from areas where they were tolerated to areas where they are not. However, fear mongering only serves to distract people from the real issues surrounding the spread of the wolf, at least in my opinion.
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Enough. These threads always produce more heat than light...
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