meanwhile wild pigs have populations that have exploded well into the millions a problem in over 35 states and canadian provinces in large part due to the lack of apex predators
ha! There's no apex predators that can control pigs. Are there predators that can kill them? Sure. Coyotes take piglets every year. Black bears kill a few. But the pigs outbreed and out compete all native species. They're prolific. They're wildly adaptable. They're fecundity is what drives their success in addition to their adaptability.
@@jivariehaving bears , wolves and mountain lions certainly doesn't hurt ! They help by predating on the weak and sick ! Yeah , I know , I lived in those mountains for 25 years .
There are around 400 thousand deer and 280 thousand elk in Colorado. Not to mention all the other random game from small game to moose. I don’t hunt anymore so I’d like to donate my future shares to the wolves.
Nope, wolves are are going to box in all the big game up against the large urban sprawl, and kill everything, then it’s onto the cattle, and then it’s on to your pets.
@@jimnowak3960you’ve spent six minutes of your life in the woods. We’ve spent our entire lives. You’re not only wrong but your certainty of your lunatic beliefs endangers the natural resources of an entire continent. You genuinely need to look no further than Idaho. Please go look at what non resident tags cost for wolves and mountain lions.
As much as I am against the reintroduction of wolves to the state. This is B.S., the largest elk herd in the country ranges from their summer range in Wyoming in the Spring thru Fall and migrate to Colorado in the winter.
“They hunt for sport, some people think they only hunt to eat, that’s a fiction, that’s a fallacy” Are you talking about the human hunters or the wolves?
There’s plenty of evidence from wolves killing multiple animals only to eat one and Leave the area. It’s called surplus killing. Mat geo has a article about a pack killing 19 elk and once.
With a wolf the compulsion to kill is as strong as a junkies need for dope. They will kill as often as the possibility arises. Even when not hungry a wolf is always looking for kill opportunities. Wolves do hunt for sport and when the snow bunches up their pray animals they will kill indiscriminately. Get educated !!~!!!
Dude everyone knows this. The era of responable and ethical hunters ended a long time ago. Now it's just a bunch of stupid #%#@ing rednecks and poachers. You said it yourself, you probably just don't know it (figures).
@@AnyM4jorDude that's just like your opinion man 🤣 come call me a coward to my face and we will quickly determine who the coward is... Lots of tough activists behind keyboards these days. If you so passionately disagree with hunting, go do something about it in person. Confront your local hunter today! Put some antlers on so you can get their attention while you're out there too.
There’s plenty of wolves in Greater Yellowstone…and there’s plenty of elk and bison and moose and deer all through that region. Granted the herbivores don’t mob up in the prime places like they do now, they get pushed around more so there might be fewer elk in your local area if a pack moves in, so hunting them is different but there’s still plenty of success to be had.
The northern Yellowstone elk herd was close to 20,000 in 1994. After the reintroduction of wolves in 1995, the herd was reduced to 3000-4000 by 2015. It has since made a small rebound, since the de-listing and hunting season introduced. Colorado will learn the hard way.
@@nt3523 20,000 elk was an unnaturally high number (even then they were approaching starvation en masse each winter). That 20,000 number was hugely inflated due to the lack of natural predation for over a century - well over their natural carrying capacity. Wolf numbers in Yellowstone are probably also unnaturally inflated, due to only a few decades in a super prey-rich environment.
@@nt3523Before wolf reintroduction the Park and Montana were killing thousands of elk every year. This is from Yellow Stone’s website. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is home to approximately 30,000-40,000 elk. Elk on the Northern Range Yellowstone’s largest elk herd winters along and north of the park’s winter boundary. With more moderate temperatures and less snowfall than the park interior, this area can support large numbers of wintering elk. The herd winters in the area of the Lamar and Yellowstone river valleys from Soda Butte to Gardiner, Montana. Currently, the majority of the northern herd migrates outside of the park into the Custer Gallatin National Forest and onto private land. After decades of debate over whether this range was overgrazed by too many elk, public concern has shifted to the herd’s small size. The winter count, which was approximately 17,000 when wolf reintroduction began in 1995, fell below 10,000 in 2003. It fluctuated between 6,000 and 7,000 as the wolf population on the park’s northern range declined from 94 in 2007 to 50 by the end of 2015. The elk count dropped to 3,915 in early 2013, the lowest since culling ended in the park in the 1960s. However, the elk pop has been increasing since 2013. There were more elk counted in 2022 (6,673) than during the final year of Gardiner Late Hunt (2010: 6,070) just north of the park's boundary. This hunt was initiated by the State of Montana in 1976 prior to carnivore recovery and designed to reduce the size of the northern herd through the removal of adult female elk. While these raw counts do not account for factors known to influence number of elk counted (e.g., snow cover, group size, sightability of elk across habitat types), these recent trends in minimum count estimates suggest herd size has stabilized or is even increasing. Decreased numbers have been attributed to large carnivore recovery (wolves, cougars, bears), hunter harvest, and drought-related effects on pregnancy and survival. The State of Montana has reduced the permits issued for this herd so that hunting of females now has little impact on population size. Montana even has a law that the state elk population can’t be above 92,138. In 22 it was 141,294 counted with a population as high as 170,000+. Farmers and land owners complain that there is to many and that the damage everything. And they have wolves!
Wolves have already devastated the Elk population in Northern Minnesota and I think they are starting to affect the Elk in Wyoming as I saw 2 in an area where they are not common during a recent Elk hunt. I find it funny that they introduce these animals to areas without stating benefits, we can only find negative impacts. Interesting.
It's people that have devastated elk populations all over the country. He'll elk don't exist in most of the US ..... let me guess, wolves did that and thats why they had to be eradicated to begin with?????
Imagine literally being a hunter, praying to Christian God, and then wanting to not know how the ecosystem you kill in is affected and you don’t want to be a steward, and just a pillager, of the land. Literally imagine. Lol just lol
How much money have you donated? Go look and see how much is donated by hunters to keep those animals on the mountain. Not to kill, but to harvest for food. I'm sure every bite you take is lettuce. 🙄
@@natty4life387 I’m on welfare I don’t think it would make sense to donate when I need to pay rent. But I try and donate to causes when I can maybe a couple times a year. My family has donated to a wildlife conservation fund for CO I believe last year. With that said, why are hunters willing to pay money to keep animals on a mountain but are illiterate to how that ecosystem they pay for stays sustainable, healthy, and balanced. That’s what I wonder
@@williamprice1497 I would say the hunters know exactly what's going on because they are the ones spending a ton of time in the woods with nature. Definitely not illiterate! Just because you release wolves back into a certain area and say it's perfect now. All the animals in that area know nothing of wolves and will probably become prey immediately. The only point I made was you can't control all the other animals and not the top predator (wolves). Once there released nobody will be controlling there numbers.
@@williamprice1497 Mate - hunters are the backing behind most of the wildlife recovery you see in the US. The north american model for wildlife conservation is funded directly off the backs of hunters, has been for decades. Hunting funds biologists who work to ensure there's a healthy population available for not just the ecosystem, but also sustains healthy harvest. Without the population, there is no harvest. You might think, at first glance, that hunting and conservation are at odds, but it's the foundation of what has made the US one of the most successful in restoring and preserving wildlife. Market hunting economies nearly destroyed everything we had. It was hunters who put in the rules/regulations and funding to bring it all back.
@@jivarie that’s cool and good! Hunters should understand the importance of a balanced ecosystem to hunt in as it’s not just their hunting grounds full of deer, it’s the area everyone lives in including all the other animals that benefit too. Thus the importance of having the wolves. Right?
Wolves don't decimate herd populations they help manage it. With no top predators to manage the herds 24/7, there won't be any plant life left for the herds to eat, and if they don't have food, they'll starve, so tell me, this would you rather have a smaller herd or no herd at all.
Dude, sitting in a still/hidden position with a cannon in your hand is not hunting, it is merely an assassination or sniper if you wish. If you really want to hunt, slip into the bush and hunt by tracking and stealth. If you are really good, then use a bow and arrow set up.
Wolves brought the creeks of Yellowstone back. Stop making this a political issue and make this a conservation issue. Our evo systems need wolves. As for farmers, why not create a government incentive to pay back farmers for every animal lost to a wolf. Problem solved. For big game hunters, there's around 36 million deer in the country and only 6 million were hunted last year. How greedy do you need to be?
It’s silly that these hunters want to talk about being in the outdoors yet don’t want to think about the literal ecosystem they hunt in. Just “how hard is it to shoot what I want?” So foolish
@@justinsane7128 you don’t have to be an expert, you just need an elementary school education, to realize that ecosystems playoff the animals in them to maintain a balance in said ecosystem. Is this not true? Or are you going to stick your foot in your mouth again?
Wolves don't trophy act like humans They take out the weak the old and sick
lol I’ve seen over 50 deer killed in a deer yard. Some of the deer were not even eaten! I’ve spent 45 years in the woods. So don’t comment stupidity.
They will also circle deer yards and stress out the deer so much that they will die..
How about young calves, you moron!
meanwhile wild pigs have populations that have exploded well into the millions a problem in over 35 states and canadian provinces in large part due to the lack of apex predators
ha! There's no apex predators that can control pigs. Are there predators that can kill them? Sure. Coyotes take piglets every year. Black bears kill a few. But the pigs outbreed and out compete all native species. They're prolific. They're wildly adaptable. They're fecundity is what drives their success in addition to their adaptability.
@@jivariehaving bears , wolves and mountain lions certainly doesn't hurt ! They help by predating on the weak and sick ! Yeah , I know , I lived in those mountains for 25 years .
"Feral" pigs are an invasive species introduced by Europeans. There are no natural predators of pigs in the Americas
@@ImaOkiefuck the wolves. I want more wolverines 😂 those things are AWESOME! Wolves suck.
Pigs are an invasive species. Why not release the wolves in southern Democrat areas?
There are around 400 thousand deer and 280 thousand elk in Colorado. Not to mention all the other random game from small game to moose.
I don’t hunt anymore so I’d like to donate my future shares to the wolves.
There was !!!!
Good luck with that buddy wolves don’t give a shit about fences or your political views. They will be in your backyard before long.
Wolves are Just coming home where they were before Jims family !
Wrong, not the same breed!!! Nice try though
You're a naive liberal who's never been in the wilderness to actually see wolves decimate other animals.
Nope, wolves are are going to box in all the big game up against the large urban sprawl, and kill everything, then it’s onto the cattle, and then it’s on to your pets.
Does a Canadian wolf stop at the border and check in with immigration?
How much syrup does he have? 😂 He better not have a single banana!!!
Wolves will decimate the other big game.just like thay have done in north idaho.
no they want, hunters and mother nature do the dirty work, wolves don't hunt for fun or just a nice set of antlers
They cull the weak and the sick, which in turn build a stronger heard.
@@jimnowak3960you’ve spent six minutes of your life in the woods. We’ve spent our entire lives. You’re not only wrong but your certainty of your lunatic beliefs endangers the natural resources of an entire continent. You genuinely need to look no further than Idaho. Please go look at what non resident tags cost for wolves and mountain lions.
Why can’t we ever get an actual wolf biologist who knows WTF they are taking about on this station? Tired of seeing bubba gumps telling fairytales
Define a woman!!!
Colorado Division of Parks & Wildlife begged voters to say no. But liberals in Denver & Boulder carried the vote. There's your answer!
@@stanjensen3712 show us one link or proof this is true.
Its their home leave them alone
You can't control all the other animals and not control the top predator. Sorry doesn't work. There all furry and cute. Till they eat everything.
Humans are the top predator. Did you not know that?
As much as I am against the reintroduction of wolves to the state. This is B.S., the largest elk herd in the country ranges from their summer range in Wyoming in the Spring thru Fall and migrate to Colorado in the winter.
When you can't hunt them, fool!!! You do realize the hunting season is only 6 weeks
We got too many deer in ohio. They are a nuance. Send a few wolves here.
“They hunt for sport, some people think they only hunt to eat, that’s a fiction, that’s a fallacy”
Are you talking about the human hunters or the wolves?
There’s plenty of evidence from wolves killing multiple animals only to eat one and Leave the area. It’s called surplus killing. Mat geo has a article about a pack killing 19 elk and once.
With a wolf the compulsion to kill is as strong as a junkies need for dope. They will kill as often as the possibility arises. Even when not hungry a wolf is always looking for kill opportunities. Wolves do hunt for sport and when the snow bunches up their pray animals they will kill indiscriminately. Get educated !!~!!!
Bullshit. Only humans and cats hunt for 'sport'.
Leave the poor wolves alone and reintroduce them
These animals were here before we were, let them go be wolves. You have no right to take them out of their natural habitat.
So were the Native American.
This will kill hunting in Colofornia... Goal Achieved Jared.
Colowhat?
A few wolves will wipe out the entire hunting industry in the entire state? That’s a bold claim and it sounds ridiculous
@@williamprice1497 🐑 🐄 🫎 🦌 🐕
@@RealMTBAddicthe's talking about urban blight ruining the countryside 😂
@@scottleggejr uhuh and the rural blight has been ruining pristine wilderness and ecosystems. get over yourself 😂
That's okay. Every real hunter knows the "code."
"he's coming right for us!" Or SSS? 😂
Dude everyone knows this. The era of responable and ethical hunters ended a long time ago. Now it's just a bunch of stupid #%#@ing rednecks and poachers. You said it yourself, you probably just don't know it (figures).
Hunters are cowards. Shooting from a blind or a helicopter is cowardly. Killing for sports is criminal.
@AnyM4jorDude it's so fun, though!
@@AnyM4jorDude that's just like your opinion man 🤣 come call me a coward to my face and we will quickly determine who the coward is... Lots of tough activists behind keyboards these days. If you so passionately disagree with hunting, go do something about it in person. Confront your local hunter today! Put some antlers on so you can get their attention while you're out there too.
There’s plenty of wolves in Greater Yellowstone…and there’s plenty of elk and bison and moose and deer all through that region. Granted the herbivores don’t mob up in the prime places like they do now, they get pushed around more so there might be fewer elk in your local area if a pack moves in, so hunting them is different but there’s still plenty of success to be had.
The northern Yellowstone elk herd was close to 20,000 in 1994. After the reintroduction of wolves in 1995, the herd was reduced to 3000-4000 by 2015. It has since made a small rebound, since the de-listing and hunting season introduced. Colorado will learn the hard way.
@@nt3523 20,000 elk was an unnaturally high number (even then they were approaching starvation en masse each winter). That 20,000 number was hugely inflated due to the lack of natural predation for over a century - well over their natural carrying capacity. Wolf numbers in Yellowstone are probably also unnaturally inflated, due to only a few decades in a super prey-rich environment.
Except the won’t be able to hunt and trap them in Colorado….
@@nt3523Before wolf reintroduction the Park and Montana were killing thousands of elk every year. This is from Yellow Stone’s website. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is home to approximately 30,000-40,000 elk. Elk on the Northern Range
Yellowstone’s largest elk herd winters along and north of the park’s winter boundary. With more moderate temperatures and less snowfall than the park interior, this area can support large numbers of wintering elk. The herd winters in the area of the Lamar and Yellowstone river valleys from Soda Butte to Gardiner, Montana. Currently, the majority of the northern herd migrates outside of the park into the Custer Gallatin National Forest and onto private land.
After decades of debate over whether this range was overgrazed by too many elk, public concern has shifted to the herd’s small size. The winter count, which was approximately 17,000 when wolf reintroduction began in 1995, fell below 10,000 in 2003. It fluctuated between 6,000 and 7,000 as the wolf population on the park’s northern range declined from 94 in 2007 to 50 by the end of 2015. The elk count dropped to 3,915 in early 2013, the lowest since culling ended in the park in the 1960s. However, the elk pop has been increasing since 2013. There were more elk counted in 2022 (6,673) than during the final year of Gardiner Late Hunt (2010: 6,070) just north of the park's boundary. This hunt was initiated by the State of Montana in 1976 prior to carnivore recovery and designed to reduce the size of the northern herd through the removal of adult female elk. While these raw counts do not account for factors known to influence number of elk counted (e.g., snow cover, group size, sightability of elk across habitat types), these recent trends in minimum count estimates suggest herd size has stabilized or is even increasing. Decreased numbers have been attributed to large carnivore recovery (wolves, cougars, bears), hunter harvest, and drought-related effects on pregnancy and survival. The State of Montana has reduced the permits issued for this herd so that hunting of females now has little impact on population size. Montana even has a law that the state elk population can’t be above 92,138. In 22 it was 141,294 counted with a population as high as 170,000+. Farmers and land owners complain that there is to many and that the damage everything. And they have wolves!
@@RyanKratky-o2u Just follow the 3 S's. Shoot, shovel and shutup.
Its only because they were wiped out in the 70s that theyve been gone in the first place.
Are you nuts or just dumb !!!!
Wolves have already devastated the Elk population in Northern Minnesota and I think they are starting to affect the Elk in Wyoming as I saw 2 in an area where they are not common during a recent Elk hunt. I find it funny that they introduce these animals to areas without stating benefits, we can only find negative impacts. Interesting.
It's people that have devastated elk populations all over the country. He'll elk don't exist in most of the US ..... let me guess, wolves did that and thats why they had to be eradicated to begin with?????
@ianober23 The elk in Minnesota were reintroduced there. So there are not that many to begin with. So the wolves did not devastated the numbers.
1:46 This is a total false narrative. Elk populations are up since wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone.
This is not true either. False claims hurt your position
Idiot comment of the week
He needs to answer what impact does his European Bovine have on Turtle Island. #wasicu
Next time just save everyone's time and say you hate white people.
😂😅bad idea. They certainly will travel long distances to reach the human populace and rural communities. Hi Grandma. Oh how big your teeth are!
Colorado won’t be an OTC elk hunting state within 4 to 5 years
Balony
Imagine literally being a hunter, praying to Christian God, and then wanting to not know how the ecosystem you kill in is affected and you don’t want to be a steward, and just a pillager, of the land. Literally imagine. Lol just lol
How much money have you donated? Go look and see how much is donated by hunters to keep those animals on the mountain. Not to kill, but to harvest for food. I'm sure every bite you take is lettuce. 🙄
@@natty4life387 I’m on welfare I don’t think it would make sense to donate when I need to pay rent. But I try and donate to causes when I can maybe a couple times a year. My family has donated to a wildlife conservation fund for CO I believe last year. With that said, why are hunters willing to pay money to keep animals on a mountain but are illiterate to how that ecosystem they pay for stays sustainable, healthy, and balanced. That’s what I wonder
@@williamprice1497 I would say the hunters know exactly what's going on because they are the ones spending a ton of time in the woods with nature. Definitely not illiterate! Just because you release wolves back into a certain area and say it's perfect now. All the animals in that area know nothing of wolves and will probably become prey immediately. The only point I made was you can't control all the other animals and not the top predator (wolves). Once there released nobody will be controlling there numbers.
@@williamprice1497 Mate - hunters are the backing behind most of the wildlife recovery you see in the US. The north american model for wildlife conservation is funded directly off the backs of hunters, has been for decades. Hunting funds biologists who work to ensure there's a healthy population available for not just the ecosystem, but also sustains healthy harvest. Without the population, there is no harvest. You might think, at first glance, that hunting and conservation are at odds, but it's the foundation of what has made the US one of the most successful in restoring and preserving wildlife. Market hunting economies nearly destroyed everything we had. It was hunters who put in the rules/regulations and funding to bring it all back.
@@jivarie that’s cool and good! Hunters should understand the importance of a balanced ecosystem to hunt in as it’s not just their hunting grounds full of deer, it’s the area everyone lives in including all the other animals that benefit too. Thus the importance of having the wolves. Right?
Wolves don't decimate herd populations they help manage it. With no top predators to manage the herds 24/7, there won't be any plant life left for the herds to eat, and if they don't have food, they'll starve, so tell me, this would you rather have a smaller herd or no herd at all.
You're an idiot. Very nsive!
Good. I'd like to see all hunting go out of business.
Dude, sitting in a still/hidden position with a cannon in your hand is not hunting, it is merely an assassination or sniper if you wish. If you really want to hunt, slip into the bush and hunt by tracking and stealth. If you are really good, then use a bow and arrow set up.
Epic bad idea
Wolves brought the creeks of Yellowstone back. Stop making this a political issue and make this a conservation issue. Our evo systems need wolves.
As for farmers, why not create a government incentive to pay back farmers for every animal lost to a wolf. Problem solved.
For big game hunters, there's around 36 million deer in the country and only 6 million were hunted last year. How greedy do you need to be?
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It’s silly that these hunters want to talk about being in the outdoors yet don’t want to think about the literal ecosystem they hunt in. Just “how hard is it to shoot what I want?” So foolish
@@williamprice1497 spoken like a true expert, you've probably never hunted anything.
@@justinsane7128 you don’t have to be an expert, you just need an elementary school education, to realize that ecosystems playoff the animals in them to maintain a balance in said ecosystem. Is this not true? Or are you going to stick your foot in your mouth again?
There is already a government program in place to compensate farmers