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Originally Posted by Dean2
Nube
Take a chill pill buddy. I was NOT trying to be an ahoe. I used GP meat processors as an example because they are ones I am familiar with. I presume there would be something similar close to you. I know Superstore and groceries with in house butchers are pretty prevalent across the province.
If, as you say, driving even a half hour for unlimited bait is not feasible then you are probably right, baiting Wolves is not a feasible deal in your view. Does however make me wonder just what the return per wolf would have to be for it to make economic sense in your books if even $450 (150 for hide and 300 bounty) isn't enough to make it feasible.
Personally I would be quite happy to contribute to someone who does want to do this but it would be nice to see some estimate by those who trap for a living as to what it would take for a program to be workable. One thought would be to use the Alberta Trappers association and have them pay a top up bounty on every wolf hide a trapper runs through the auctions. Easy to track and administer and fair across the board to those who are catching the wolves. As far as fair to the poor trapper, as far as I know, if you don't catch fur no one is making a charitable payment to them while they learn, no reason wolf shouldn't work the same. You get paid for success in pretty much everything.
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By the time you skin out the paws turn ears flesh board stuff the paws salt or borax the hard drying areas turn the hide you on average have eight to ten hours in. Make one mistake overlook one detail cut a small hole that cant be sewn to cover without noticing ie ears or toes split the lips wrong loose some wiskers have one spot of fur slippage because you didnt use enough salt or were careless and your three hundred dollar wolf turns into a thirty to fifty dollar wolf. now figure in your time to collect bait haul bait set snares check snares wear and tear on equipment and catching wolves is not at all profitable in todays market.
I do think that the goverment could afford to pay a bounty say half of what it costs them to kill a wolf save money and cure there wolf problem. There is nothing wrong with rewarding someone like nube or a dozen other people who haave gone above and beyond to try to reduce wolves on there line everyone benifits from there efforts