Reintroduction of Wildlife Good or Bad

[Ridgerunner]

Same with the waterfowlers. They build wood duck nest boxes or get the Boy Scouts or other service based organizations to help them and with the help of biologists strategically place them and maintain them for next years would be parents. The wood ducks here thrive because of that effort.

A guy I new in South Louisiana was caught poaching ducks. Part of his sentence was community service, he had to finance, build, and install 15 wood duck nests in the local bayous. That turned out to be a lot more work than he anticipated at first.

 

[Nyboy]

I like that punishment fits the crime! Wish more judges thought that way.

 

[ducks4you]

Now the coywolves a crossbred between a coyote and wolf , then add them crossbreeding with the domestic dog, and now you really have a big, inteligent , bloodthirsty pack predator , increasing in numbers in the Eastern states, and since they are larger and have pack preying habits of the wolf, so they are able to kill much larger prey. Introducing the wolves to areas where they were eliminated is pure folly . Allowing more hunters to hunt deer, elk, etc. and or to increase the bag limit is the best method to control numbers of game animals inspite of the views of some bleeding hearts. .

Agreed! THANKS for bringing up the coywolves! I have them behind my property, but they haven't done enough damage for our town to think about culling them down. I have seen one hesitate, then dash down my driveway. My immediate neighbor south has had one on his front porch, and he watches over his dauchshunds when he lets them out at night. I have to monitor my 60 pound Husky cross, because she hates them and might chase them, thus getting trapped and ripped to pieces, and they do when they catch a domestic dog. A friend shot one chasing two deer he was hunting, only because it was focused on the deer and didn't see HIM. If they SEE a human, they scatter--they are THAT SMART, so shooting them requires patience and a nightscope.
I am not worried about my three horses. The lightest weight horse I own is 1,100 pounds of healthy, the largest is 1,500 pounds of BIG. Chase them and the predator is dead from a kick, so I have trained my dog to stay with THEM, if I need to make them wait to come in from turnout, and it's dark.
We also took off the front left of our car hitting one. Whatever the local coywolves have mixed with, locally they are reddish brown. We have photos of the one we hit, taken the next day. We have seen a few dead ones on the side of the road.
I think this is going to become more common in the next few years. It's hard to get a largely city population to come to grips with the notion that we need to keep the numbers of wild animals down to keep all our wild creatures around and/or healthy.

 

[Carol Dee]

Journey, is this law enforced even on private land?

Mary

Oh YES, the DNR officer will come onto private property to see if you are a resident and to be sure you have proper tags and license, etc... it has happened to DH and Son several times.

 

[Nyboy]

Funny in the north east coyotes are giants. People where calling them coydogs because of there size. When DNA testing was done none had dog DNA, they all had Wolf DNA. According to NY DEP there is no such thing as coydogs here at least.

 

[Nyboy]

http://www.watershedpost.com/sponsored/2013/coyotes-coydogs-and-coywolves

 

[Carol Dee]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ysa5OBhXz-Q?feature=player_embedded

I just got this from a friend about the Yellowstone Wolves, FASCINATING !

 

[bobm]

Yes, fascinating! When the parks are set aside and human hunting is prohibited and since the wolves were eliminated, Deer, elk and buffalos and other prey species numbers increased which in turn results in more pressure on the trees and other vegetation whose numbers decline . Now, instead of reintroducing the wolf, and simply allow people to hunt in a responsible and regulated way to keep the deer, elk and buffalos and fur bearing animals to bring their numbers in ballance with their food sources ,the same result would have occured as is now being credited to the wolves.

 

[valley ranch]

Issue more tags.

 

[seedcorn]

DNR wanted to release rattle snakes because we killed them off. I think we stopped them by volunteering to release them in DNR's homes and offices...... Could they be any dumber?