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Originally Posted by Young Eldon
Nate Web did a very good study of the wolves west of Sundre and Rocky Mountain House 10 years ago. He was working on his Doctorate Degree at U of A. They were eating a lot of elk - should soon be running out of ungulates.
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Put some facts out, not insinuations and a glib conclusion. Webb's study mentions nothing about elk declining because of wolves. Could it have anything to do with some biologist turning hunters loose on cows and calves because they were in three farmers bales? It's still going on today except there are no elk to shoot, just female tags issued into Dec. The elk in this WMU are gone because of this. Or how about this same biologists "spike season" in the 400 units which was going to provide more trophy animals, remember that disaster. I encourage everyone to read Webb and the several papers on Ya Ha Tinda elk and see for yourself. An officer told me it wasn't wolves, it was mostly people knocking the ungulates down and cited one road with over 100 illegal kills on it in one fall and winter. Illegal, not native.
Wolves eat elk, but blaming them as the primary cause for decreasing elk numbers is pure BS.