Are there wolves in vermont

The wolf did survive, and it lives in our woods. A tribute to the balence and sustaining ways of nature. Please look at the topmost story in my blog today about coyotes in the Bay state. Where do you live? For years near my home in southern Colorado, I have seen animals that at first I thought to be wolves. This was before the new guidelines and subsequent wolf reporting system were adopted They insisted that they were big coyotes.

They were huge. They were not colered the same as a coyote. They were much lighter grey with none of the tawny color you see in coyotes. The only other thing I could think they could be, are wolf hybrids, pets that have been dumped off in the high country because they became too difficult for their owners to manage duh, immagine that.

Hunters have told me that they too, have seen and heard them howl. Why would the CDOW refuse to admit that there may be wolves here? The reason that they would not want there to be wolves out there are many. But the main one is protections for endangered species. I live in Mass.

I saw one I belive hunting Granville Mass. There have been numourous reports, and a kill at Quabbin that is recorded as a large cat kill. If there are cats or wolves out there there will need to be protections for them as endangered species. Imagine having to deal with that can of worms on top of all the other considerations brought on wildlife officals and biologists.

The reason I suggested you look at the story about Mass. Ralph, Saw and read your articile and a few other post and writings and I guess we have wolves, as they have stated, pure eastern timber and not crosses. I was under the impression that pure wolves needed space and lots of it away from man.

This thinking may need to be revised. As you know the hunting season on coyotes has increased by a number of weeks. The utes, native peoples of upper utah have a superstition about the western coyote that states if you kill and then skin a coyote, you will release an evil spirit.

I would often think about this warning to there hunters and think about how when we shot these animals from air planes in the old days to erradicate there numbers, they actully increased in numbers. WE should take pause when we look at what we have here. One of the first signs as I have heard people say is if our eastern coyote acts like a wolf. Eastern coyotes breed once a year, chariteristic of wolves.

Wester coyotes would breed two and three times depending on there numbers, stress from disease, or being shot from airplanes. I belive it is easier to kill off for good, geneticly, our wolves, reguardless of sub speices or classifacation. I think I read years ago,[ correct me please on this or what ever I am wrong on] that on the plain states lower 48 there was a pure very large native wolf that was driven to exticntion.

I have heard that this large, now extinct wolf, hunted the bison and the larger elks and caribou. They were erradicated by our fear and ignorance of the balence of the echo system they lived in. They were big and stronger than the western canadian wolf.

They took down those powerful Bison. When we introduced the smaller canadian version to the area the great spirit had put the larger stronger wolves, they had their troubles. They had to learn to adapt and they seem to be. Now public fears and political preassures are on the move again. Ralph, I wonder what we have in store here in N. A pure N. It depends on the prey base. Wolves in northern Canada have huge territories because prey is not abundant and often migratory. With an abundance of deer in much of Eastern United States and moose in Maine , there is usually more for them to potentially eat than in most places in the West per square mile.

Wolves manage to live in Israel in the scraps of habitat that exist in those places where continual unrest make it unsafe for people to enter.

The study of wolf, coyote and the genetics of many animals is scrambling our old categories, in my opinion. I had a wolf or a cross for 9 years. His name was spock. The breeder said he was siberian husky but you could not tell because he looked like a wolf. He was the best dog any body could be blessed with to have.

This was a decade ago. Are there Wolves in the Northeast? February 8, Uncategorized. Gray Wolves Documented in the Northeast States The following is a list of some of the documented cases of gray wolves in Northeast states since In September , a gray wolf was shot and killed near Moosehead Lake in Maine. Later DNA analysis confirmed that the animal was a wolf. In , a possible wolf was trapped and killed near Bangor, Maine. Later DNA analysis revealed that the animal was a wolf with evidence of coyote hybridization.

In November , a wolf was shot and killed in Glover, Vermont. On December 19, , a wolf was shot and killed in Day, New York by a hunter who claimed that he thought the animal was a coyote. Consider posting your land.

But posting your land is the only way to prevent unethical hunters from killing coyotes and bears and bobcats for their recreation. Talk about unethical hunting with your neighbors and family. Draw a clear distinction from ethical sustenance hunting. These are not the same things. Time is running out for the well-being of our environment and our wildlife.

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Albans observance, recalls time on Senate veterans… Health Care Vermont reports Covid cases, shattering previous 1-day case record. Wildlife officials often discount wolf sightings in the area, and claim that when wolves are shot, proving wolf presence, those animals are released captives. Genetic tests on the latest confirmed wolf, a pound male, pose additional questions. A resident of Troy apparently shot the animal thinking it was a coyote. However, interbreeding between these two populations has never been documented in the wild, suggesting it was highly unlikely the animal was the result of natural breeding.