Here's a chance for Idaho commemorative wolf tags No. 2 and No. 7
The Treasure Valley Chapter of Safari Club International will offer Commemorative Tag Number 2 through an on-line auction on the Internet ending on Nov. 1. To place a bid click here: HERE
Commemorative Tag Number 7 will be offered in a mail-in lottery. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. To purchase sweepstakes tickets mail a check payable to SCI-Treasure Valley Chapter, with your name, address, and telephone number, to PO Box 133, Nampa, ID 83707. The sweepstakes closes on Nov. 2, 2009 and the drawing will be held on Nov. 16, 2009. For the Official Sweepstakes Rules go to: http://scitreasurevalleychapter.org
Wolf tag No. 1 brought $8,000 in an auction by the Congressional Sportsmen Foundation on October 14. Prices for the tags have so far ranged from $350 to $8,000. Only 10 commemorative wolf tags are available.
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Embarrassing
Are hunters really this intimidated by wolves that they will pay $8,000 for a wolf tag?
Are wolves making your hunt that much more difficult that you feel the need to spend such money?
Perhaps this is an indicator of how well off elk hunters had it for so many years without the wolf as a predator. Think of the "real" hunters of a century ago that did not have the special equipment that makes hunters so great today. High powered optics, better ammunition, more precise firearms, GPS, topo maps, 4 Wheelers etc... have all made the hunter "better" today.
I think that hunters have lost their abilities and now rely on technology making them quite lazy.
Maybe this is how "real" hunting always was, and once again, is!
Then again, the problem a century ago was not, how can we be better hunters, but how can we get rid of what makes hunting more difficult, the wolf.
Think about it, hunters are being outsmarted by what they call a "dumb" animal who kills for the sport and not so much out of necessity.
If this be the case, then where do humans stand?
Idealism in the misinformed
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem (author unknown).
Do you really believe that the wolf problem is only about hunting? Where do you live? If wolves were prowling close to your home, threatening your pets and making it dangerous to be out in your backyard without a weapon handy - would that finally be enough wolves? Would you be upset if "Fluffy" was snatched right out of your backyard? I submit that you are too far from the overall problem of the overpopulation of wolves to merit an informed opinion.
And what is wrong with balance? Why do we have to allow one portion of the animal population be decimated by another protected species? What makes the wolf 'God' and the elk, deer, and moose second-rate?? Believe it or not, people actually hunt to provide food. And they don't sit around camp waiting for the game to come to them - then or now.
Until the wolf was artifically reintroduced with a nonnative species and allowed to take over causing an unbalanced wilderness system, Mother Nature was doing just fine. As usual, man comes along and messes everything up all in the name of "Idealism". The tag issue is just a result of the out-of-balance, overall problem and not worth talking about.
Balance
In the midst of your own dietribe, you forgot to look in the mirror!
The wolf problem is completely about hunting. I, and my dog, nearly live outdoors and have never had a problem with a wolf anywhere in Idaho. I have seen wolves in the Boise foothills, McCall, and in Stanley without incident.
Balance?! I agree, we need balance. It was humans that changed that balance by hunting the wolves to near extinction because the wolves were seen as competition. The hunting that we have known for the past several decades was abnormal. Now, with the reintroduction of the wolves we are moving again to that balance.
The balance that you apparently want is when you, the hunter, have no competition and there are so many elk that they lay in your front yard for you to harvest. Again, you want balance, but not one that does not favor your ease of hunting.
You said "What makes the wolf "God" and the elk, deer, and moose second-rate??" I would counter with, who makes you God and wolves second rate?
Yes, many people hunt to provide food, but as a hunter I know that by the time I do some scouting, purchase a license, sight in my gun, buy more ammo, drive to the mountains, and then process the meat, I have spent more money than if I had just gone to WINCO to purchase meat.
Boy, this will go nowhere slowly...
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There is no life in Idaho...it is a mirror site on god's server. You were dreaming but it is over. Go to your residence and await our commands and THEN we will restore control...
Dear LetLive...
Thank you for your contribution to this site. With your able assistance great strides have been made to continue reducing the commentary to a confused, hopeless whimper, like the sound of melting Jello. Who needs concise, well-constituted opinions with great clarity anyhow?
Keep working hard...you are the FUTURE, my friend!
(And why live anyway, it tends to suck and stuff)
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There is no life in Idaho...it is a mirror site on god's server. You were dreaming but it is over. Go to your residence and await our commands and THEN we will restore control...
OMG Buffy, it's a football poster asking me not to stand...
I don't like typing while standing anyway.
Next.
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There is no life in Idaho...it is a mirror site on god's server. You were dreaming but it is over. Go to your residence and await our commands and THEN we will restore control...