What do Native Americans think about aerial wolf hunt? (to live in, pollution)
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There is never an overpopulation of any wild animal. You people are all wrong. You people are just trying to justify being able to live your life where you do not belong as in parts of other states also. Man is taking over their land and now they have less room to roam. It is a known FACT! Wolves can travel hundreds and hundreds of miles in a short period of time. They do not stay in one area! Do your research!
Any good wildlife biologist would disagree strongly with that. Overpopulations of animals occurr frequently when wildlife isn't properly managed. Less than 1 percent of Alaska is privately owned, the rest is federal, state and native lands. Most of Alaska is pure wilderness and will remain as such for the foreseeable future. Wolves stay where there's food until they run out of food generally.
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Off topic! My state has some of the freshest clean air! Do your research. No factories here, no pollution! You are the polluter! Please stay on topic!
Not at all. Alaska is one of the cleanest states. Many areas of FL are really rather filthy, and heavily over-developed.
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I would never move onto any land where there is wildlife left and survivng on this earth to roam free! There are plenty of other places that man has ruined already to survive. So who is the hippocrate here? Better go back to school, or better yet start school!
You guys walk around with guns and knives and if the animal is in your way you just kill it! Thou shalt not kill! At least I can live without a guilty conscience, but then again you people who hunt down and murder defensless wild animals have none! I will fight tooth and nail to protect any animal in harms way of man that I am capable of doing. Whether it be signing and passing petitions or just rescuing a dog from a shelter or off the street. You can call me all sorts of names you want and attack me with your immature posts! But for what? Standing up for the animals that God put on this earth that you are destroying? Why are animals on the extinction list? Not because they kill each other but because man, an animals worst enemy murders them all for their own greed! The thrill of the hunt, or to survive on their territory, where you do not belong!
Guess you can't live anywhere, there are even animals left in NYC.
Humans have been in Alaska for thousands of years and haven't destroyed it. Alaska has done a far better job than about any other state in managing and protecting its wildlife and wilderness. Contrary to what you believe humans are in fact part of nature. Humans are supposed to be hunters and gatherers. You live an unnatural lifestyle, don't force it on others who are a living bit closer to how humans are supposed to live than you.
Oh and animals kill each other all the time.
And you are an absolute hypocrite. You spout the animal rights agenda straight from PETA propaganda but you use animal products.
You are off topic, but let me give you a history lesson about your state! Thousands of miners were drawn to Alaska in the early 1890's due to the Gold Rush. So here we have greed which brought man here. As it always does! Alaska was not granted territorial status until 1912. The 1968 discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay and the 1977 completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline led to an oil boom. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in the Prince William Sound, spilling between 11 and 35 million US gallons (42,000 and 130,000 m³) of crude oil over 1,100 miles (1,600 km) of coastline. Today, the battle between philosophies of development and conservation is seen in the contentious debate over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So many of the people who have settled in Alaska to enjoy the thrill of the hunt, hopefully it will be stopped someday! It is all for greed in the end! This was just to educate you a little, otherwise please stay on topic!
You are such a clown, the Russians were here hundreds of years before that wiping out the Sea Otters, seals and a host of other critters to the point of extinction. When the U.S. bought Alaska, there were stops put on a lot of the hunting and animals were restocked to bring them back up to current levels that almost match what was here three hundred years ago. In the 1950's, Sea Otters were brought up from Northern Calif. and placed in the Prince William Sound because there wasn't any sea otters or had been for well over 100+ years. The early FAA was called the CAA then and they were the ones that dropped the sea otters off from float planes all over the Sound.
It is not a matter of where does man belong. It is a matter of saving the good untouched land of what is left on this earth. So much wildlife is becoming extinct and believe it or not hunting and killing wildlife has alot to do with throwing off the whole eco system. We have a choice of living amongst other men where we belong. We need to leave places uninhabited by man like the huge parts of Alaska where wildlife continues to prosper and survive on its own. Animals do not need man to control their numbers in existance. Survival of the fittest controls it! They all need their own territory and by man taking it over it forces them to live amonst each other and this throws their numbers off also!
Again, there is no reason for this, you chose to live there, so now wild animals are killed. This just puts them on the endangered list eventually due to the stupidity and greed of man. You guys chose to live theer and have to hunt for your food because you enjoy the kill! Alaska draws mostly hunters!
Like Florida draws Geriatrics. Go to the beach and build a sand castle or something.
Again, there is no reason for this, you chose to live there, so now wild animals are killed. This just puts them on the endangered list eventually due to the stupidity and greed of man. You guys chose to live theer and have to hunt for your food because you enjoy the kill! Alaska draws mostly hunters!
Nothing I know of has gone on the endangered species list in Alaska due to hunting. The state does a good job of managing the wildlife. Alaska is the only state where wolves have never been extirpated or listed as endangered. Do you know how much wildlife has been killed to feed you? Let me tell you something: the big farms most of your food comes from, kill lots of wild animals to protect their crops...on top of the destruction of habitat.
I think I have to get some meds so I cannot run and kill with knives and guns, don't know how many moose I've killed with a knife, but darn I must be good....On medication, I will need have my blinders on to see these blatant, uneducated rantings from people whom have probably never stood on their own in life or would ever be able to survive should the SHTF...so help me...
Hmm. They don't go into land that other wolves inhabit. They have a given range according to every naturalist and biologist that has done studies on them. Hundreds and hundreds of miles translate to a lot of calories especially when the temps are well below zero. But I suppose that they are getting these calories from solar power. Wolves consume approximately 3 kilos of meat (not food, note, but MEAT) in a given day when travelling. That's per wolf. Who travel in packs (more than one). Usually sized from 6 to up to 20 individuals. Commonest size of a pack is a dozen. Check the website chronicling the needs of wolf packs on the move. If they are moving, they are not hanging around the latest kill, and they can't carry it them. No hands and no backpacks. Minimum one kill a day for a small pack on the move. Larger packs need more.
They say that amateur soldiers study tactics, but professional soldiers study logistics. There is a reason for this. Moving armies need supplies and wolves need meat. Not out of the freezer. The current population of Alaskan wolves is close to 10,000. Divide that into 580,000 square miles. This ignores the 1/3 of the land covered by ompassable mountains and glaciers. It ignores the 1/10 of the land covered by any of a million lakes and ponds (not an exaggeration, check estimated counts by USGS and BLM). It ignores about 1/5 of the land covered by muskeg (swamp to you) that is next to impassable in warmer months. This leaves 58 square miles per wolf. Multiply that by 10 for an average sized pack. 580 square miles per pack. This is a square less than 25 miles on a side. 25 miles long by 25 miles wide. Less than a 100 miles straight line. Which wolves usually don't follow.
This is a best case scenario for a pack. Now, how much large game (prey species) can exist in a square 25 miles on a side. And how many days does it take to clear a plot of land 25 x 25 miles by a pack of wolves.
Of course this ignores hares and ground squirrels, but it also ignores bears, badgers and wolverines. Simple logistics limits the predator species numbers. They will breed to the point of starvation and then decline in numbers until the prey species can breed up to a point where the predators now have the supply they need to support the new generations of cubs to begin the cycle all over again.
Logistics alone cause the boom/bust cycle to occur in predator/prey species. The reason we now have so many wolves in Alaska is because Fish and Game limit the numbers of ungulate prey (moose, caribou) to be taken by humans. F&G do not control the wolves take, and thus more denning cubs can survive, increasing the size of the pack, increasing the amount of prey needed to sustain the pack. Boom and bust.
If the science is hard to swallow, watch your dog. He will eat until he is gorged and can eat himself sick. Wolves eat as much as possible when available because the next meal might be days away. They will kill as much as they can while they can because prey are bred to escape predators any way they can. Some will get away. Prey have no other real defenses.
Wolves have no other controls on them. They are the top of their food chain. What controls the breeding and numbers of wolves? They're certainly not on the pill. I am not trying to be hurtful here, but you keep coming back and telling us that we are killing off the wolves by the thousands. They are much more elusive than that. I see bears, moose and caribou all the time. I have seen one wolf. One only. I have seen Dall sheep that are only found on cliffs and mountainsides, but only one wolf. I have seen a herd of musk ox in the distance up by the North Slope, But only one wolf. Truly elusive. Adaptable and strong, intelligent and wary of man. Trust me, I can hear them and see their sign, but seeing them is much harder than that.
Alaska is covered with a lot of near impassable terrain. Ask anyone. Crossing a section of tundra less than 10 miles across can take you 2-3 days. It depends how long is since it was frozen (or will be if winter is coming on). It's a lot easier in the depth of winter.
This is a map of Alaska superimposed over a map of the US. True sizes relative to each other. This is a state that dwarfs all the rest and there are 600,000 people here. A little over a half a million. 3/4 or more are in cities and towns. The rest of this land is wilderness. Trust me.
It is not a matter of where does man belong. It is a matter of saving the good untouched land of what is left on this earth. So much wildlife is becoming extinct and believe it or not hunting and killing wildlife has alot to do with throwing off the whole eco system. We have a choice of living amongst other men where we belong. We need to leave places uninhabited by man like the huge parts of Alaska where wildlife continues to prosper and survive on its own. Animals do not need man to control their numbers in existance. Survival of the fittest controls it! They all need their own territory and by man taking it over it forces them to live amonst each other and this throws their numbers off also!
Humans have been living in Alaska for thousands of years...and it's a scientific fact we do not belong in cities. A recent study proved cities have negative effects on humans' mental health. Humans belong in the wilderness.
Hmm. They don't go into land that other wolves inhabit. They have a given range according to every naturalist and biologist that has done studies on them. Hundreds and hundreds of miles translate to a lot of calories especially when the temps are well below zero. But I suppose that they are getting these calories from solar power. Wolves consume approximately 3 kilos of meat (not food, note, but MEAT) in a given day when travelling. That's per wolf. Who travel in packs (more than one). Usually sized from 6 to up to 20 individuals. Commonest size of a pack is a dozen. Check the website chronicling the needs of wolf packs on the move. If they are moving, they are not hanging around the latest kill, and they can't carry it them. No hands and no backpacks. Minimum one kill a day for a small pack on the move. Larger packs need more.
They say that amateur soldiers study tactics, but professional soldiers study logistics. There is a reason for this. Moving armies need supplies and wolves need meat. Not out of the freezer. The current population of Alaskan wolves is close to 10,000. Divide that into 580,000 square miles. This ignores the 1/3 of the land covered by ompassable mountains and glaciers. It ignores the 1/10 of the land covered by any of a million lakes and ponds (not an exaggeration, check estimated counts by USGS and BLM). It ignores about 1/5 of the land covered by muskeg (swamp to you) that is next to impassable in warmer months. This leaves 58 square miles per wolf. Multiply that by 10 for an average sized pack. 580 square miles per pack. This is a square less than 25 miles on a side. 25 miles long by 25 miles wide. Less than a 100 miles straight line. Which wolves usually don't follow.
This is a best case scenario for a pack. Now, how much large game (prey species) can exist in a square 25 miles on a side. And how many days does it take to clear a plot of land 25 x 25 miles by a pack of wolves.
Of course this ignores hares and ground squirrels, but it also ignores bears, badgers and wolverines. Simple logistics limits the predator species numbers. They will breed to the point of starvation and then decline in numbers until the prey species can breed up to a point where the predators now have the supply they need to support the new generations of cubs to begin the cycle all over again.
Logistics alone cause the boom/bust cycle to occur in predator/prey species. The reason we now have so many wolves in Alaska is because Fish and Game limit the numbers of ungulate prey (moose, caribou) to be taken by humans. F&G do not control the wolves take, and thus more denning cubs can survive, increasing the size of the pack, increasing the amount of prey needed to sustain the pack. Boom and bust.
If the science is hard to swallow, watch your dog. He will eat until he is gorged and can eat himself sick. Wolves eat as much as possible when available because the next meal might be days away. They will kill as much as they can while they can because prey are bred to escape predators any way they can. Some will get away. Prey have no other real defenses.
Wolves have no other controls on them. They are the top of their food chain. What controls the breeding and numbers of wolves? They're certainly not on the pill. I am not trying to be hurtful here, but you keep coming back and telling us that we are killing off the wolves by the thousands. They are much more elusive than that. I see bears, moose and caribou all the time. I have seen one wolf. One only. I have seen Dall sheep that are only found on cliffs and mountainsides, but only one wolf. I have seen a herd of musk ox in the distance up by the North Slope, But only one wolf. Truly elusive. Adaptable and strong, intelligent and wary of man. Trust me, I can hear them and see their sign, but seeing them is much harder than that.
Alaska is covered with a lot of near impassable terrain. Ask anyone. Crossing a section of tundra less than 10 miles across can take you 2-3 days. It depends how long is since it was frozen (or will be if winter is coming on). It's a lot easier in the depth of winter.
This is a map of Alaska superimposed over a map of the US. True sizes relative to each other. This is a state that dwarfs all the rest and there are 600,000 people here. A little over a half a million. 3/4 or more are in cities and towns. The rest of this land is wilderness. Trust me.
Exactly my point, mal...excellent post. Have to spread the love though.
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Go to the beach and build a sand castle or something.
