Originally Posted By: AKSAR
Originally Posted By: Byrd_Huntr
There have always been wolves in MN, but with new roads and trails due to recreation, logging, mining, and remote land leases by new foreign owners of legacy paper company forests, they have artificial access to moose, especially in winter. Wolves are not dying back with the moose. On the contrary, they are increasing to record numbers and killing different animals, in larger packs, over a greater range.

Wow....those Minnesota wolves need roads to get around? Who would have thought?

What do the wolves drive? Motorcycles? Or maybe Humvees?


That's how the bobcats have outcompeted the lynx in WA and ID. They use snowmobile tracks to access habitat that in the past only the fluffy footed lynx could travel.

The wolves and cars are doing in the Mtn Caribou too. Last count there were only 4 in the US.

"The South Selkirks contained a minimum of 27 caribou in 2012, with 4 of these observed in the U.S., down from 36 in 2011 and 43 in 2010. "
http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/endangered/species/woodland_caribou.pdf


Edited by clearwater (01/05/16 11:24 PM)