This is what an unchecked pack can do overnight!

[KegRiver]

Originally Posted by HunterDave

Keg, do a Google search of "Wyoming Elk" and you will find numerous links to articles from well respected mainstream media outlets. Some of the articles have additional pictures.....National Geographic has close up shots. I'm always sceptical of anything written by media outlets that I'm not familiar with but this story has been picked up by the big boys......CNN, Fox News, Washington Post, etc. For reasons of integrity I'm sure that these guy's verify that the story is not a hoax. IMO this event actually happened as reported.

Seems to me that a few years ago those same media got caught with their pants down so to speek.

Didn't a reporter write a story about some event in the middle east, from a witness prospective and then it turned out that he had never been there, but only after a good many well respected mainsteam media outlets carried his fake story.

No I won't provide links, it happened and if you don't believe it, you google it.

[parfleche]

I have no proof, But I always have a problem taking any news at face value regardless of who or how well known the reputation . Media can only report what they are given .
Take our famous Snare specialist of late! The media report what they were given .in addition to his story two F&W employees jump into the melee from Sundre.

That being said and from having talked to one Government trapper and biologist from Montana , It sounds like the people in charge of management of the wolves are handicapped by politics and animal welfare advocates.
I cannot say IF the reports are genuine , They appear to be .
BUT IF you were a group of frustrated wildlife management people with the charge of managing in this case,
What better way to say <We told you so> at the next convention on wolf control ?
And is it not perhaps time to do something about it? Just my opinion .

[Wolfslayer]

......maybe it was aliens.

[7mmstwguy]

I think a farmer poisoned the elk, that were ****ing on their bales, wrecking their fences, then blamed the wolves that ate their livestock, so they will be shot... thats a double knock out....lol

[KegRiver]

The thing that first came to my mind was a cull.

I'm pretty sure I read about F&W culling that herd some years ago.

As I recall, there was a huge protest so wolves were introduced to deal with the situation.

So I wondered, if F&W are afraid to cull the herd and the wolves are a threat to livestock what's a rancher to do?
So long as the Elk remain so will the Wolves.

Some years ago two men were murdered at a packing plant in Edmonton.
The authorities ruled it was an accidental electrocution. A later autopsy showed it to be the result of gunshot wounds to the heads of both men.

I wonder if F&W officers are any better trained in forensics then police officers are?

I can't help thinking about the lack of deep snow in those photographs.
A healthy Elk can outrun a Wolf any day of the week.

In every case I have heard of where a spree killing occurred, there was something restricting the movement of the victims.

I'm just not seeing anything in those photos that might restrict the movement of those Elk.