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More on wolves and deer

by Wayne Mumford December 17, 2008

Yesterday I wrote about wolf predation on deer and made a couple extrapolations on the extent to which deer might be effecting western Montana deer populations. Turns out I was wrong on on total numbers of deer killed by hunters, that according to fish and game, was 1,532 bucks and does for 2008. I do [...]

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More wolves than you can count?

by Wayne Mumford December 16, 2008

Maybe I’m reading to much into this, but it sounds like Kent Laudon, state Fish, Wildlife and Parks wolf management specialist hasn’t got enough man power to count all the wolves running around in Montana’s Region one.
That brings up the question, if he had more people and money to spend on monitoring wolf packs; how [...]

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Wolves no longer in Hog Heaven

by Wayne Mumford December 1, 2008

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has asked the USDA to remove the remaining members of the Hog Heaven pack west of Kalispell. As recently as last week the pack was back raiding local livestock. We spotted two of the wolves Saturday near the Kila area on our way out hunting. Kila is about 10 miles [...]

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Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge

by Wayne Mumford November 2, 2008

Our hunting trip for the day found us next door to the Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge, near Marion, Montana. The weather was less than stellar and the hunting not much better but the ride around the refuge north road provided a nice finish to tramping around in the woods in the rain.
The 7,885 acre [...]

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Who’s crying Wolf? Bubba, wolves, the feds and “greenies”.

by Wayne Mumford May 1, 2008

Of course the conservation groups filed suit this week to appeal delisting the wolves and it probably didn’t matter one iota if Bubba was blasting the hell out of them in Wyoming or not, it was inevitable. The conservation groups would have screamed bloody murder no matter what and Bubba couldn’t resist the chance to [...]

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