On 9/24/13 4:42 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:45:51 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:52:15 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:


"The Alberta government has been killing an average of 100 wolves a year for 8 years to protect the
caribou ..."

Well, that certainly is a very good example of your stupidity!! Hint:
that sentence would show an intelligent person that there IS a problem
with them because of the roads.

What do the roads have to do with anything. Wolves move through the
woods just fine.

Wolves, like all intelligent species prone to the laws of nature, take
the path of least resistance.

But, just like electricity, they will take all paths

I suspect there are other forces at work here. My guess is that there
is a thriving hunting industry for the caribou and other big
herbivores and the government wants them to be plentiful.

The indigenous people have hunted caribou forever, as have bears,
wolves, etc. When you shift the delicate balance in nature, it's never a
good outcome.

I doubt Alberta is thinking about indians with bows. They have a very
lucrative hunting industry with people coming in from all over the
world. My bet is they are protecting that industry


I am not sure what the natural control on wolves is there but I
suspect they are under pressure too.

See above, ie: balance of nature.

My question was what controls wolves. I do not know the answer. It
might simply be starvation. They eat all the pray and decline or move
away. When the game rebounds they come back.
My wife has that sort of ecosystem at her club. They go from too many
rabbits to a lot of bobcats. It cycles back and forth. They are in the
"too many rabbits" right now but I am sure the bobcats are coming soon
and we will get more pictures like this.
http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Bobcat...%20through.jpg


How wonderful to be able to see that sort of scene.