Colorado Wolves Reintroduction

[SkaredShtles]

As a Wisconsinite all the wolves in "Michigan" are in the Upper Peninsula which is rightfully a part of Wisconsin.

Stick to your cheese-lane, there, Sport.

Do you people even *like* pasties?

There are people in this world that don’t like pasties?

I've heard there are people that don't like tacos... so maybe?

[Chicago Transplant]

The maps are worthless, they just note that a wolf has been in a certain watershed at some point in the last month.

Why are they worthless if they show the wolf activity, updated monthly. And they been in these watersheds last several months consistently. They must be finding food there, so they return.

I think they are worthless because any collar ping in a 30 day period triggers the entire watershed to be on the map. Using Peak R as an example, the HUC 10 level watershed map in that area goes from Green Mtn Res to Lake Dillon along the Blue, with all the side creeks (i.e. Slate) included. So say that one wolf takes a single step over Ute Pass on one day out of the 30, now that whole basin lights up on the map! I just don't see any real value in CPW's maps as an indicator of wolf range if one ping on Ute Pass and the entire eastern side of the Gore is now "wolf activity".

I get that I don't know what is triggering the watershed, but that is just part of why I find it so useless. They won't release more detail because they are worried about protecting the wolves from people if they give too much information, so instead they give too little information to actually provide value to people to stay away from the wolves either.

[surly1today]

SnowAlien is as fiesty as a wolf in the last couple of pages.
Admin Bill, can we please get some wolf smilies to plaster in this thread. Thank you good sir!

[two lunches]

I sincerely hope that as a park ranger in HCW you don't get any nasty surprises this summer. Maybe you should look into printing a brochure similar to the Alaskan one.

i say we just let the darwinism playout here. stay strapped or get ̶c̶l̶a̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ disemboweled

[supranihilest]

I sincerely hope that as a park ranger in HCW you don't get any nasty surprises this summer. Maybe you should look into printing a brochure similar to the Alaskan one.

i say we just let the darwinism playout here. stay strapped or get ̶c̶l̶a̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ disemboweled

Not to mention devoured, decapitated, eviscerated, emasculated, destroyed, decimated, massacred, obliterated, routed from their homes, devastated, rent limb from limb, ground to dust, poisoned, hacked to pieces, annihilated, wiped-out, genocided, erased, eliminated, demolished, ravaged, shattered, blasted, disintegrated, felled, killed, razed, wasted, gutted, ruined, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, and other DEI words that start with ex, abolished, vanquished, made lifeless, voided, perished, eradicated, and made utterly extinct.

"Goddamn," I said to myself.

[SkaredShtles]

Pictures of disemboweled bovine. So hot right now.

I like this quote:

"According to the latest research, which studied worldwide data from 2002 to 2020, the risks associated with a wolf attack are “above zero, but far too low to calculate.” "

https://wolf.org/wolf-info/factsvsficti ... to-humans/

So sorta along the lines of winning the lottery. Ain't gonna happen.

[SkaredShtles]

I sincerely hope that as a park ranger in HCW you don't get any nasty surprises this summer. Maybe you should look into printing a brochure similar to the Alaskan one.

i say we just let the darwinism playout here. stay strapped or get ̶c̶l̶a̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ disemboweled

Not to mention devoured, decapitated, eviscerated, emasculated, destroyed, decimated, massacred, obliterated, routed from their homes, devastated, rent limb from limb, ground to dust, poisoned, hacked to pieces, annihilated, wiped-out, genocided, erased, eliminated, demolished, ravaged, shattered, blasted, disintegrated, felled, killed, razed, wasted, gutted, ruined, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, and other DEI words that start with ex, abolished, vanquished, made lifeless, voided, perished, eradicated, and made utterly extinct.

"Goddamn," I said to myself.

[supranihilest]

i say we just let the darwinism playout here. stay strapped or get ̶c̶l̶a̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ disemboweled

Not to mention devoured, decapitated, eviscerated, emasculated, destroyed, decimated, massacred, obliterated, routed from their homes, devastated, rent limb from limb, ground to dust, poisoned, hacked to pieces, annihilated, wiped-out, genocided, erased, eliminated, demolished, ravaged, shattered, blasted, disintegrated, felled, killed, razed, wasted, gutted, ruined, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, and other DEI words that start with ex, abolished, vanquished, made lifeless, voided, perished, eradicated, and made utterly extinct.

"Goddamn," I said to myself.

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Nay, I'm just making sure that those who can answer "who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" with an emphatic "MEMEME!" know the multitude of ways in which wolves will, in fact, with $110% certainty kill them if they dare venture outside and become the third person killed by a wolf in the last 19 years, which by my math is a totally-not-abusing-statistics 50% increase. It doesn't bear repeating, it wolf repeating.

[twhalm]

There is definitely some irony to discussing the risks of wolves on a forum about inherently risky activities. Surely wolves aren't the thing tipping the risk scale.

[Jim Davies]

I've heard that wolves will kick rocks down on climbers, gnaw through ropes, and enter deceptively positive trailhead and condition reports.

[SnowAlien]

Pictures of disemboweled bovine. So hot right now.

I like this quote:

"According to the latest research, which studied worldwide data from 2002 to 2020, the risks associated with a wolf attack are “above zero, but far too low to calculate.” "

https://wolf.org/wolf-info/factsvsficti ... to-humans/

So sorta along the lines of winning the lottery. Ain't gonna happen.

This statistics is for sparsely populated area (Alaska - 773k spread over a huge territory). Now we're talking about Colorado - nearly 6 mln people crammed into what looks like a suburban sprawl between Denver and Vail, with a bunch of ski towns.
p.s. you kinda defying your nickname by being so brave on the wolves issue.

[justiner]

lol I always read that username as, "Shared Skittles".