Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Wolves had already been seen, two of them confirmed, in and around Yellowstone Park in 1991 or 2 before they were reintroduced. And my wolves going to Idaho, it's just a slower wave. And people want to jumpstart this with reintroducing wolves. Well, in my humble opinion, I'm not a psychologist, but I think that... Social tolerance of humans for anything is better when it isn't forced on them.
I don't like having things forced on me. Of course. Yeah. So when you force wolves on somebody, it's going to meet with human resistance. If they walk around on their own, I believe... They will get there. Our science has shown that they do. It just takes longer.
The other thing of interest about the reintroductions is that people think the wolf-loving hippies pushed to have the wolves reintroduced into Yellowstone and Idaho. I'll just say Yellowstone, but it's the same.
To some point, it is that faction, but the reason it happened was because two conservative senators, one from Idaho, McClure, one from Wyoming, Simpson, very conservative ranching supporting base, promoted to Congress to pass laws to get those wolves reintroduced. Because they could see the writing on the wall that the wolves are coming anyway.
And if they walk down there on their own, they're going to be fully endangered. Well, if we were to introduce them, they get a different classification called non-essential experimental population. Meaning because humans put them there, you can manipulate them and kill them if they're taking livestock. It's just more flexible management. So the senators thought, well, they're getting there anyway.
Let's just put them in there. Really? So, yeah, that's a little bit of the interesting background that people aren't aware of with the reintroductions, that it was really people way on the right and way on the left coming towards a common goal for different reasons.
Does he have a collar on?
I think I read about this wolf. There's a wolf that went down through the Central California Valley and ended up going down through the vineyard country. I think it was probably that wolf that it was seen.
Historically. Back eons of time, wolves had the largest global distribution of any mammal in the world except people. I mean, wolves live from the Arctic to the prairies to the temperate forests to the Gaza Strip still. Really? There's wolves in the Gaza Strip? There's wolves in the Netherlands right now. Wolves have expanded.
They will live anywhere that we don't kill them off because they did historically. I mean, there were wolves on Staten Island, I'm sure. Now we have different wolves there. But I'm thinking, yeah, anyway, stock market. Wolves of Wall Street. Yeah, exactly. That's where I'm going. So but they live anywhere because they can.
eat anything, but mostly what they need is four-legged hoofed mammals, usually deer elk, caribou, moose, whatever, occasionally livestock. They need a place where they can secure that they can whelp and raise pups. And then they need a freedom of persecution from humans, being in traps, poison shooting, whatever. If you have enough of those three factors, they will be there.
I mean, they've been showing up in Iowa and Missouri and the Dakotas for years and years now, but they don't make it because they get killed. But they're trying.
I'd love to see that video.
Really? You can search for stuff.
Sorry.
But you saw one or your friend did?
So if you get a chance, Joe, if you're really interested in seeing wolves, just take a trip to Yellowstone and go. I would suggest not in the summer because it's just crazy. I'd go in the winter. You can hire a wolf tour guide or you can go on your own to stay at a hotel, but you got to get up before dark.
And you got to go out dawn and dusk. In the wintertime, they're easier to see because of the snow. And it's really fun depending on the season. If you go in the fall, they got bigger pack because the pups are all still alive. You go in the winter, they got breeding behavior and stuff going on. It's just... There's always something to see. I go there myself, but I know a lot of the wolf watchers.
I just drive the roads until I see people pulled over and I get out and watch. And they might be a mile away. They might be 400 yards away. But bring a scope. And I'd suggest you just hire a guide. You'll see wolves. Guaranteed.
Yes. I mean, it's amazing to hear them howling.
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