study done on Isle Royale National Park after NPS and MDNR transplant wolves

[cheeser]

#IsleRoyale | Wolves Jump 23% as Moose Crash —
Michigan Tech researchers just wrapped up their winter survey, reporting the island's wolf population has reached 37.
That's a 23% increase from the last count and the highest number since the late 1970s.
The moose population is seeing the exact opposite trend, dropping 75% since 2019 down to 524 animals. For the first time in nearly 70 years, the team didn't spot a single moose calf.

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[Wind Gypsy]

huh, wolves must eat moose calves and that must impact moose populations. Who'd a thunk?!

 

[Birdbander]

The Feds & state could have saved all of the money they spent bringing in wolves to control the moose population on the island by simply creating a special hunting season. The amount that people would have been willing to pay would have been incredible.

Now they'll have to figure out a way to reduce the wolf population or let them starve THEN reintroduce moose by air lifting them in.

The wheels on the bus go round & round.

 

[Bowmannate2000]

The Feds & state could have saved all of the money they spent bringing in wolves to control the moose population on the island by simply creating a special hunting season. The amount that people would have been willing to pay would have been incredible.

Now they'll have to figure out a way to reduce the wolf population or let them starve THEN reintroduce moose by air lifting them in.

The wheels on the bus go round & round.

That would be a unique hunt for sure.

 

[Birdbander]

Could always send the surplus wolves to Colorado. I hear they're going through them pretty quickly & could use more

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Be real interesting what happens if they eat themselves out of house and home. Cant be fun to have to take down full sized moose with your teeth after all the calves are killed. I recall a study from SE AK recently where they wolves were largely living off of sea otters after they wiped out the blacktail deer population. I know they ate quite a few beavers in N. MN where deer populations crashed - That doesn't jive with the "how wolves change rivers" story.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Be real interesting what happens if they eat themselves out of house and home. Cant be fun to have to take down full sized moose with your teeth after all the calves are killed. I recall a study from SE AK recently where they wolves were largely living off of sea otters after they wiped out the blacktail deer population. I know they ate quite a few beavers in N. MN where deer populations crashed - That doesn't jive with the "how wolves change rivers" story.

Nature is bloody, cruel and violent.

Humans prefer cozy and cute.

Funny how we celebrate the lion taking down the wildebeest, but mourn the same thing at home.

Wildlife live and die by blood and violence. Swings in populations are part of the natural order, made by God. Places like Isle Royale remind us that not everything that is natural is easy or level.

Moose will die off, then the wolf population will follow. This is how he made it.

 

[belshawelk]

Bring in more Lions. Several wolves in Colorado are getting killed by Lions.

 

[noharleyyet]

...more scientists.

 

[atlas]

Within recent history there was no wolves or moose on the island. Just Caribou and Lynx