Stillnotathrowaway

I grew up in Southwestern Wisconsin. One summer day, 15-20 years ago, the whole house shook, the china rattled, and a huge boom shook everything in my body.

The local rumor was that a blackbird had some sort of emergency mechanical problem and needed to go top speed back to a base immediately in the southern midwest states. Have you heard of this?

The sonic boom was pretty incredible!

I have hunted white tail deer in Northern Minnesota for a while. In all honesty, hunters in this area are very skeptical of the wolf population estimates and process. Case in point, the first legal year for wolf hunting our group of 5 hunters saw 30 wolves in 7 days and 2 deer.

Minnesota's moose population is declining at an alarming rate, the wolf population is densest in the Northeast, but has proceeded as far south as 15 miles from the twin cities suburbs (4+hour drive from where I hunt). The "wolf experts" claim that wolves don't predate moose much, however, actual research being conducted on killed moose says the hard truth that wolves are overabundant, and decreasing the moose and deer populations in the state.

Do you have any comments on Minnesota's current wolf population? Why do you feel they should be endangered in Minnesota? Our management plan was responsible and it also proved that the wolf population was much higher than expected based on how quickly the quota was reached. These animals were supposed to be so elusive and averse to human contact, yet the few people who got a tag managed to find them quite easily.

*rip inbox I'll try to find my bookmarks on a few things I've saved. I'm not anti wolf. Im pro regulation and would like a very healthy wolf population. I don't think that Wyoming is attempting to have a healthy wolf population. But I don't think they need federal action to make them endangered when everyone that hunts in northern Minnesota, literally everyone sees tons of wolves. They're not endangered here.

awesome!

What role do the pharmaceutical companies play in lobbying this topic? They are one of the highest funded interests and in MN are trying to lobby to have Marijuana only legal through them.

You cite the Northern Rockies quite often here. However, you say the population is estimated at 333. Minnesota is estimated at 2500 (many feel it is much higiher). What would a population that large do to an elk population in the rockies?