The Dutchers did not live with "wild wolves", they had a small acreage chainlink enclosure near Stanley that they used to film a family group of captive wolves. The wolves did continue to live in very regrettable conditions with the Nez Perce. The introduction of the Canadian Grey Wolf into our ecosystems in Idaho is again another hard learned lesson taught to us by Conservation Biologists like Ed Bangs who is willing to decieve the public to achieve their agenda. Watch now for "Wolf Recovery Areas" to be demanded by groups like Defenders of Wildlife who have caused more unecessary suffering in the last 14 years as elk and deer herds have been plundered to put a theoretical idea into action, the integration of wolves with humans. Our wilderness areas are now being plundered as a prey resevoir and now large numbers of wolves are moving into fringe areas looking for sustenance. Val Giest of University of Calgary was very astute in reminding U.S wolf biologists that the best way to protect wolves is to keep them few and far back.

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Gut shoot a wolf. Save 100 elk.

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Whether wolves do or do not attack humans is a simplistic question. Wild animals are by definition, unpredictable. Every year, in parts of Idaho, people are attacked by Grizzlies and Black bears and Cougars. Sometimes they are injured, sometime they are not. Sometimes their is a Human death. That is fact. What IS the issue is what the F&G does to diminish these encounters and maintain a viable population of predators on government land. The problem with wolves is that they are not hunted or even threatened when they come in contact with humans. They are extremely intelligent and they learn from this. They also breed far faster than other predators and that is why we see them in every canyon around Ketchum and Hailey.

Predators first and foremost exploit opportunity. I wouldn't want my wife or child jogging alone or even with a dog on the trails of Blaine County until wolves are conditioned to fear humans. How do we do that? Hunt them! Or send em back. Those are the choices, thanks to the misinformed who believed the wolves would would behave differently, Every wolf shot this Fall is a wolf that would live a better life in Canada or Alaska. Ironically, their death is ultimately the responsibility of the ignorant intellectuals that "re-introduced" them.

"Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived among a pack of wolves in the wilderness of Idaho"

The above is not a true statement. No one gets to "live" in the "wilderness" more than 14-18 days before the FS issues a ticket. (They don't like squatters.) Does this site also say what happened to the Dutcher's wolves at the end of 5 years? Just in case they left that out, the wolves ended up with the Nez Perce Tribe living in cages the rest of their lives because they were habituated and couldn't be returned to the wild.

Livingwithwolves looks like just another site spreading misinformation in order to obtain donations. And the anti wolf bunch are just as bad.

"...they succeeded in scaring them off by firing cracker shells over their heads." Now that they aren't afraid of humans, maybe they'll become habituated to the sound of gunfire. If you want a really effective "hazing," use live ammo and drop the alpha male and female. That'll scare 'em.

I glassed these black wolves last evening via my spotting scope on the ridge above Limekiln..

When some human gets maimed or killed on the bike path by a wolf and the lawyers get unleashed, these people should be some of the many named as defendants in a civil suit: www.livingwithwolves.org
It's going to happen. Humans are easy to catch and their young wander away from the adults. Apparently we taste like pork. Cannibals refer to humans as "long pig."

Bring in Sarah Palin and family to run our "new" town, she's a crack shot, SV heli-ski can offer wolf hunting.

Just checking to see if the one pack made it back to green horn yet maybe tonight?

Hey Mark..... I am pretty sure that white anglo saxon males are not indigenous to the area either. Any suggestions on what we should to about that?

Sounds like its getting real close to class action lawsuit time just need a jogger to get attacked to set the stage.

What a ridiculous waste of money and time by our F&G. The wolves will be back in a day or two. (Maybe you should send out Ms. Stone to clap her hands?)

What other town in Idaho gets this special treatment? What are they going to do when the wolves start denning in the Boise foothills? Will they have Gowen Field keep helicopters on stand by?

I frequent the Frank Church Wilderness area and have noticed an increase in numbers with in the last five years. I never used to have any fear of the creatures however, last year I was stalked by a solo black wolf up marsh creak for several hours. I know for certain that this creature was waiting for my canine friend to stray away from me. This never occured, only because I was aware and am not ignorant to the wolves and the area. The number of wolves in the area to me is absolutley rediculous. To my knowledge timberwolves have always inhabited the area however, why are we introducing the grey wolf to areas below the 48? They were never here before and they obviously dont belong here now!