Great work guys. Great job exposing the nuance of living with wolves. Management isn’t heartless killing. Management enables wildlife abundance. If balance isn’t maintained then even wolves suffer.
Thank you all for what you are doing to help our deer, elk, moose and other animals in Idaho. We support you. I have seen the same things in my time in the woods. Last archery elk season I heard wolf packs howling five times in 14 days afield, I heard two bugles the whole season.
Great Video! I live in Colorado and I spend a lot of time in Jackson County and just in the last couple of years I have noticed a significant decrease in Moose and Deer where I used to see them all the time. And this is just from the pack that they don’t want to acknowledge that moved down from Wyoming. Now we have the additional wolves they just reintroduce. Wolves are beautiful but there is a balance. Keep up the great work.
This is a very good documentary, thank you for producing it! We have the same problem here in the Upper Great lakes country. My home state of Michigan has a serious wolf management problem, yet our hands are tied by the "Management by Litigation" stranglehold you northern Rockies folks fought for years. Activist judges have not only hamstrung our Great lakes area Departments of Natural Resources at every turn, but a mostly urban population is in total denial of the way things actually work in nature. We rural people are nearly helpless as far as legal means to proper management.
No your not ,,,grow a pair and do what needs to b done…or stop with all the talk ,,same ol all ,,that’s what you people love to do…just stop already … believe if my family was in any danger of wolf or any animal attack,,,I’d handle that problem so yes save the talk for someone else,,,me I’m tired of it…
@@billysarabia5055 Seriously pal? I have been a woodsman my entire life......hunter, trapper, fisherman. I was also, for 16+ years, a commissioned Michigan Volunteer Conservation Officer. The last thing I need is to grow a pair of anything. It is the public's perception of knuckle dragger beer swilling rednecks that has hurt the management of apex predators for decades. I would love a chance to LEGALLY bag a wolf or two a year here in the Great Lakes region, but bragging about SSS or saying you will gut shoot wolves at every chance has our non-hunter/trapper population believing the Animal Rights folk's lies about us wanting to wipe out the entire wolf population to 1970 levels again. Boasting about committing a Federal Felony if you get the opportunity to commit it isn't helping our cause.......we just need our state wildlife professionals to have a chance to run our own show without outside interference from some liberal judge that is NOT a trained biologist.
What a great video. Justin...you did a phenomenal job with this. Loved the fact ole Muskrat was in it too, Gary is such a neat dude. I hope this reaches all the people that need to understand.
What a great documentary. You can’t remove them completely but they certainly need to be managed. Wolf management is critical. I pray for common sense wolf management to return ungulate populations back to they’re proper numbers.
One of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched. I’m sure this will help your cause. Get some traction. Does anybody do a podcast because that sure seems to be the new thing these days just saying keep up the good work
Wildlife management allows for wildlife to have a stable population and avoid large population swings from starvation, disease, and predation. Mother nature can be pretty heartless when it comes to balancing things on her own and one thing this video brings out is when you don't manage wildlife, we humans become just another prey animal like elk, moose, and bears to the apex predators. Glad to support F4WM!
Robert Roman is a fine Gentleman whom I’ve had many conversations with and Tom Schneider is a Master Wolf Hunter!! I went up the mountain in unit 3 of North Idaho no less than 25x’s trying to kill a wolf and although I captured them on two different trail cams and called in 3 one random afternoon using a lucky Duck electronic calling device I was never successful. Fish and game says the success rate is around 1%…..😳I would say at this point I am obsessed with Wolf hunting as it is in my opinion the most challenging of all the predators to hunt. Join F4WM fellas as it’s a great organization to be a member of.
When FWP held their public meetings here in region 3, pertaining to the wolf reintroduction. Hundreds of hunters, local business people showed up, including a Canadian outfitter. Everyone was against the Canadian timber wolf (endangered species) introduction. The wolves have now decimated the elk herds here. My boys don’t like to hunt elk anymore, because we never see elk where we’ve always hunted them. Sad deal!
Wolves: the scourge of the west! They have seriously reduced all ungulate populations, but the hardest thing is to see is what they've done to our moose! And something the wolf crazies never talk about is that wolves literally extirpated caribou from the southern 48 states in a few short years. Thanks to F4WM some of our ungulates may have a chance to survive, F4WM is their last best chance!
Why do you think they existed for thousands of years before human intervention now they’re the “scourge of the west” and eliminating all ungulates? The Caribou, Bison, Antelope, and Elk herds were immense compared to their peak in the last 100 years. What doesn’t add up?
Great video guys and sadly I can testify from first hand experience. We had a black tail deer hunters paradise on Vancouver Island until 1980. Wolves took over and wiped out a 400 mile long island in about three years. The few that are left are either in the city limits or scared as rabbits in the bush and very skinny.
Do they really think that humans and wolves have been in conflict for thousands of years? Guess what we are still both here. Wolves need to be managed just like anything else? Use your heads to determine how many tags are needed to keep the balance
A few observations I’ve made, I’m an avid hunter and licensed trapper in Canada: 1) You (human beings) eliminated the wolf 100 years ago, from the same square miles and the same number of square miles. Now you’ve got a much larger population of humans, and you’re having trouble controlling the wolf population? Plus you’ve got much better tools/methods of hunting and trapping than they did 100 yrs ago. In your defense, you also have many more humans that would like to hunt ungulates than there was 100 yrs ago. 2) Wolf populations self-regulate, the reason their numbers are so high now is cuz there’s lots of food for them. If they don’t have food they starve. The reason their numbers sky-rocketed in the last 20 yrs was cuz there’s an ‘artificial’ number of game cuz they haven’t been regulated by wolves. 3) How to trap wolves: these are the methods used by the trapper that caught the pack that was transplanted to Yellowstone, both times: Set up a wild game bait pile in an area that is frequented by wolves, not just a few tidbits but a few whole animals (a source of this bait is from the highways people that gather road kills), then set neck snares in the bush surrounding the bait pile. And not just 5 or 6 snares, several dozen would not be too many. When one wolf gets caught, the rest of the pack panics and runs circles and ‘freaks out’ from their buddy being in distress. Before long you’ve caught the whole pack.
This is what happens when the suits who don't live out in rural areas, make dumb ass laws. It's what politicians do on both sides. Instead of talking with the ranchers etc., They make these ridiculous laws. The wolf is my all time favorite animal, but yes..the balance needs to be restored. I am from Wyoming, born and raised...just another guy tired of stupid ass idiots who don't look at the bigger overall picture and not just their soft sensitive feelings.
This sad.. this is run by people who don't care about us. Only sitting in there apartments saying we're just being mean. Something has to be done, wolves gotta go.
This video is demonizing these animals. We need healthy predation in an ecosystem. Studies from Yosemite prove the benefit of wolves. The rest of the country has problems with overpopulation of herbivores decimating the vegetation and causing car accidents. They’ve killed off wolves in this part of the country and with the advent of feral pigs and pythons, who have no natural predators in this part of the country we are in trouble, need an apex predator. Wolves have territory, 50 sq miles a family. They won’t concentrate in one area, will disperse through the rest of the country where needed. Stop killing them and let them come this way.
Well done! Proud to support F4WM and all you do. Thanks!
I hope people in Colorado watch this!
Great work guys. Great job exposing the nuance of living with wolves. Management isn’t heartless killing. Management enables wildlife abundance. If balance isn’t maintained then even wolves suffer.
Thank you all for what you are doing to help our deer, elk, moose and other animals in Idaho. We support you. I have seen the same things in my time in the woods. Last archery elk season I heard wolf packs howling five times in 14 days afield, I heard two bugles the whole season.
Great Video! I live in Colorado and I spend a lot of time in Jackson County and just in the last couple of years I have noticed a significant decrease in Moose and Deer where I used to see them all the time. And this is just from the pack that they don’t want to acknowledge that moved down from Wyoming. Now we have the additional wolves they just reintroduce. Wolves are beautiful but there is a balance. Keep up the great work.
Great Video, thanks you F4WM for all you do
Well done guys. We need to get this out there. I will do my best.
This is a very good documentary, thank you for producing it! We have the same problem here in the Upper Great lakes country. My home state of Michigan has a serious wolf management problem, yet our hands are tied by the "Management by Litigation" stranglehold you northern Rockies folks fought for years. Activist judges have not only hamstrung our Great lakes area Departments of Natural Resources at every turn, but a mostly urban population is in total denial of the way things actually work in nature. We rural people are nearly helpless as far as legal means to proper management.
No your not ,,,grow a pair and do what needs to b done…or stop with all the talk ,,same ol all ,,that’s what you people love to do…just stop already … believe if my family was in any danger of wolf or any animal attack,,,I’d handle that problem so yes save the talk for someone else,,,me I’m tired of it…
@@billysarabia5055 Seriously pal? I have been a woodsman my entire life......hunter, trapper, fisherman. I was also, for 16+ years, a commissioned Michigan Volunteer Conservation Officer. The last thing I need is to grow a pair of anything. It is the public's perception of knuckle dragger beer swilling rednecks that has hurt the management of apex predators for decades. I would love a chance to LEGALLY bag a wolf or two a year here in the Great Lakes region, but bragging about SSS or saying you will gut shoot wolves at every chance has our non-hunter/trapper population believing the Animal Rights folk's lies about us wanting to wipe out the entire wolf population to 1970 levels again. Boasting about committing a Federal Felony if you get the opportunity to commit it isn't helping our cause.......we just need our state wildlife professionals to have a chance to run our own show without outside interference from some liberal judge that is NOT a trained biologist.
WA state here, very much appreciate video!!
What a great video. Justin...you did a phenomenal job with this. Loved the fact ole Muskrat was in it too, Gary is such a neat dude. I hope this reaches all the people that need to understand.
What a Trapper! Cherrs from germany! GARY is one hell of a guy!
Cheers from germany my friend ! GARRY!
👍👍 great great video thank you
Fantastic video! Let's forward this great movie to as many as possible!
Great video! Keep up the good work.
Great video, you should do them more often to keep in the forefront.
When one apex predator goes after another large predator like hibernating bears then you know there is a problem!
Exactly!!!! The wolves need to go away.
Awesome video !! Thanks for all you do !
Good job!!
What a great documentary. You can’t remove them completely but they certainly need to be managed. Wolf management is critical. I pray for common sense wolf management to return ungulate populations back to they’re proper numbers.
Stunning. Thank you for this!
Thank YOU ,alot of people need to watch this video...
One of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched. I’m sure this will help your cause. Get some traction.
Does anybody do a podcast because that sure seems to be the new thing these days just saying keep up the good work
Great job guys. Hopefully get some people to understand the effect they have had on our elk moose and deer populations.
What a Great video, Thanks for sharing this video with us. And Thanks everyone at F4WM for all you do!
Awesome job
Wow! Great video! You lot are truly saving the wild! Keep on truckin on!!! XD
Wildlife management allows for wildlife to have a stable population and avoid large population swings from starvation, disease, and predation. Mother nature can be pretty heartless when it comes to balancing things on her own and one thing this video brings out is when you don't manage wildlife, we humans become just another prey animal like elk, moose, and bears to the apex predators. Glad to support F4WM!
Robert Roman is a fine Gentleman whom I’ve had many conversations with and Tom Schneider is a Master Wolf Hunter!! I went up the mountain in unit 3 of North Idaho no less than 25x’s trying to kill a wolf and although I captured them on two different trail cams and called in 3 one random afternoon using a lucky Duck electronic calling device I was never successful. Fish and game says the success rate is around 1%…..😳I would say at this point I am obsessed with Wolf hunting as it is in my opinion the most challenging of all the predators to hunt. Join F4WM fellas as it’s a great organization to be a member of.
Great video, that’s my ol’ Daddio “Muskrat.”
Thanks for all the hard work.
When FWP held their public meetings here in region 3, pertaining to the wolf reintroduction. Hundreds of hunters, local business people showed up, including a Canadian outfitter. Everyone was against the Canadian timber wolf (endangered species) introduction. The wolves have now decimated the elk herds here. My boys don’t like to hunt elk anymore, because we never see elk where we’ve always hunted them. Sad deal!
Wolves: the scourge of the west! They have seriously reduced all ungulate populations, but the hardest thing is to see is what they've done to our moose! And something the wolf crazies never talk about is that wolves literally extirpated caribou from the southern 48 states in a few short years. Thanks to F4WM some of our ungulates may have a chance to survive, F4WM is their last best chance!
Why do you think they existed for thousands of years before human intervention now they’re the “scourge of the west” and eliminating all ungulates? The Caribou, Bison, Antelope, and Elk herds were immense compared to their peak in the last 100 years. What doesn’t add up?
Great video guys and sadly I can testify from first hand experience. We had a black tail deer hunters paradise on Vancouver Island until 1980. Wolves took over and wiped out a 400 mile long island in about three years. The few that are left are either in the city limits or scared as rabbits in the bush and very skinny.
Outstanding organization.
Do they really think that humans and wolves have been in conflict for thousands of years? Guess what we are still both here. Wolves need to be managed just like anything else? Use your heads to determine how many tags are needed to keep the balance
Great video. Can’t have 2 apex predators. We took the place of wolves and grizzlies. Either we go or they go otherwise everything will die
A few observations I’ve made, I’m an avid hunter and licensed trapper in Canada:
1) You (human beings) eliminated the wolf 100 years ago, from the same square miles and the same number of square miles. Now you’ve got a much larger population of humans, and you’re having trouble controlling the wolf population? Plus you’ve got much better tools/methods of hunting and trapping than they did 100 yrs ago. In your defense, you also have many more humans that would like to hunt ungulates than there was 100 yrs ago.
2) Wolf populations self-regulate, the reason their numbers are so high now is cuz there’s lots of food for them. If they don’t have food they starve. The reason their numbers sky-rocketed in the last 20 yrs was cuz there’s an ‘artificial’ number of game cuz they haven’t been regulated by wolves.
3) How to trap wolves: these are the methods used by the trapper that caught the pack that was transplanted to Yellowstone, both times:
Set up a wild game bait pile in an area that is frequented by wolves, not just a few tidbits but a few whole animals (a source of this bait is from the highways people that gather road kills), then set neck snares in the bush surrounding the bait pile. And not just 5 or 6 snares, several dozen would not be too many. When one wolf gets caught, the rest of the pack panics and runs circles and ‘freaks out’ from their buddy being in distress. Before long you’ve caught the whole pack.
Genius. Thank you for sharing
You know a professional trapper would clean them out easily.
Washington state here, and I get it ❤
This is what happens when the suits who don't live out in rural areas, make dumb ass laws. It's what politicians do on both sides. Instead of talking with the ranchers etc., They make these ridiculous laws. The wolf is my all time favorite animal, but yes..the balance needs to be restored. I am from Wyoming, born and raised...just another guy tired of stupid ass idiots who don't look at the bigger overall picture and not just their soft sensitive feelings.
WHAAAT!?!?! THEYRE NOT CUTE FOREST PUPPIES?!?!?!?
This sad.. this is run by people who don't care about us. Only sitting in there apartments saying we're just being mean. Something has to be done, wolves gotta go.
What kept wolf populations in check before human intervention?
This video is demonizing these animals. We need healthy predation in an ecosystem. Studies from Yosemite prove the benefit of wolves. The rest of the country has problems with overpopulation of herbivores decimating the vegetation and causing car accidents. They’ve killed off wolves in this part of the country and with the advent of feral pigs and pythons, who have no natural predators in this part of the country we are in trouble, need an apex predator. Wolves have territory, 50 sq miles a family. They won’t concentrate in one area, will disperse through the rest of the country where needed. Stop killing them and let them come this way.
Wheres all the mountain lions
i wish MICHIGAN would watch this. uggg
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Where the hell was your firearm
Well people need to understand that the wolf lovers goal is to stop all hunting. Then if u don't hunt, why do u need ur gun. Understand now.