Wolf in Morinville Area

[HunterDave]

I always hear different stories so I take them with a grain of salt. This year though, three different people have seen a wolf or his tracks. First it was tracks NE of Legal, then a sighting NW of Legal and finally last week I was talking to a fella who used to trap and his house faces a field and patch of bush who swears that he saw a wolf very clearly one night.

Last week I decided to call the Wildlife Specialist at F&W in Barrhead to see if it was plausible. He told me that he had no reports but to him it was entirely possible. There has been a small pack in the Onoway area (confirmed) and there is a pack in the Rochester area and I don't think that's all that far for a wolf to travel from those locations to the Morinville area.

So what say ye.......possible or legend?

[Bigwoodsman]

Highly possible and most likely. Lots of moose in the area so it's natural for wolves to be there.

BW

[Thunder/FX]

Only possible on a "super moon"

[waterninja]

I don't doubt for a moment that there are wolves in the Mornville area. I'd like to see you get one in one of your coyote sets


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[H380]

Originally Posted by waterninja

I don't doubt for a moment that there are wolves in the Mornville area. I'd like to see you get one in one of your coyote sets


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I know Id sure like to see one in mine , $500 bounty here . We see the odd one out here on the prairie and tracks occasionally but few and far between .

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by waterninja

I don't doubt for a moment that there are wolves in the Mornville area. I'd like to see you get one in one of your coyote sets

I second that, HunterDave!

We saw one not far from my house about two years ago so I definitely wouldn't be surprised.

[Big Grey Wolf]

We have wolves by Wabamun Lake, they can travel 50 miles in a night with good packed snow conditions. If you have deer and moose in your area you will have wolves.

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf

We have wolves by Wabamun Lake, they can travel 50 miles in a night with good packed snow conditions. If you have deer and moose in your area you will have wolves.

I know of the pack that moved into the Onoway area a couple of years ago and I actually saw trail cam pictures of them. I doesn't surprise me in the least that there would be wolves in the Wab area. There was a cougar watch for the Onoway area last summer as well. I've lived in Morinville since '96 and this is the first that I've heard of wolves in the area. The darned thing must be lost!

[HunterDave]

TEH, Although you don't live all that far from me I think that the habitat around you is a little better for wolves than the farmland around Morinville and Legal. I've heard that there were fisher and marten in your area as well. Not sure of the truth behind that.

[Thunder Elk Hunter]

Originally Posted by HunterDave

I always hear different stories so I take them with a grain of salt. This year though, three different people have seen a wolf or his tracks. First it was tracks NE of Legal, then a sighting NW of Legal and finally last week I was talking to a fella who used to trap and his house faces a field and patch of bush who swears that he saw a wolf very clearly one night.

Last week I decided to call the Wildlife Specialist at F&W in Barrhead to see if it was plausible. He told me that he had no reports but to him it was entirely possible. There has been a small pack in the Onoway area (confirmed) and there is a pack in the Rochester area and I don't think that's all that far for a wolf to travel from those locations to the Morinville area.

So what say ye.......possible or legend?

Dave you know were I live.
I have seen tracks but never a wolf in the body.
The tracks have always been a lone one. Had one travel into a bait site but never got lucky and caught it. It never came back so I would say it was just traveling thru.
So yes it is possible but I have been called out on a wolf sighting only to find it was a big dog as well.
TEH