Wolf Encounters In Wisconsin

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Bayfield Wolves Confront Ino Logger

Just got my Wisconsin Outdoor News and they had this article there.
A 39 year old logger was 400 yards behind his house cutting in a stand of aspen on April 22.He took a break sitting on a log and saw a big animal pass 100 yards away in the woods. He thought it was a deer at first until it got into the clearing and saw it was a wolf and had two others with it.
Once they spotted him they headed in his direction, quickly closing the distance between themselves and Peters. "As soon as the big one came into the clearing, it saw me and started coming in my direction. When the big one got within 50 feet I stood up and started yelling-‘What’s wrong with you! Get out of here! ’But it didn’t stop.”
The lead wolf Peters estimates at 150 pounds and stood midway to his chest-he is 6’1”.
It kept approaching from directly in front. “ So I picked up my chain saw, started it up and began swinging it around. .I’ve never seen a wolf that big in my life. But I thought the saw would scare it.”
The wolf paused and paced back and forth for a few minutes and began moving toward him again. Peters’ skidder was 100 feet away and he headed toward it.
At that point he realized he wasn’t paying attention to the other wolves and looked for them. He then saw one to his right and the other to his left ‘flanking’ him.
“I’ve never had anything like this happen to me. They went into hunt mode just like that,” Peters said.
He walked half ay to the skidder and ran the rest. When looked back after jumping on the skidder they were about 20 feet behind him.
“They either ran or moved quickly to get that close when my back was turned. It was happening so fast it was pretty creepy, like a bad dream.”
He than drove through the woods and they followed him to within 100 yards of his house.
“These things showed no fear of me. They’re not afraid of people apparently. Maybe they thought I was a sandwich.”
This happened by Ino Wisconsin and the local DNR mammalian ecologist, Adrian Wydeven, at Park Falls would like any other reports like this brought to his attention at 715-762-4684 ext. 107

There was another encounter at Butternut, Wisconsin, where some ‘younger wolves' followed a logger out of the woods as he walked back to his truck to sharpen his chain saw. He yelled at them and they slowly walked away.
 
Maybe there were pups nearby.It'll be interesting to see where this goes.Havent been on much,been fighting trojan horse viruses all week,had 7 I had to root out,I tink I got them under raps now,my truck blew the master cylinder sunday so it's been a busy week,hopefully I'll get time to fix it sat.Good read Mike.
Duane
 
In August of 2002 12 miles north of Ino, Wisc I saw very large grey wolf kill a hound. Killed a very gritty 60lb Plott dog with one bite. Killed the dog on the side of the road--managed to grab up the rest of the pack as they came thru on the bear track but one big Walker female had already crossed and we found her dead 2 hours later about a half mile into the block from the 1st kill.
I've had wolves kill dogs before here in Ontario but what suprized me about this one besides actually seeing the kill was the absolut fearlessness of the big wolf. I saw 2 others with it, smaller and one was limping--holding a back leg up. I figured it had been live trapped before.

Calling Wydeven didn't do much good--2 young bio-tecks showed up--one told me he would mark it down as a probable wolf kill. Kid was obviously educated well beyond his intelligence. I explained to the kid that I had killed 11 wolves during the previous winter in Ontario--perfectly legally and that there was no mistaking that it was a wolf--dogs don't get that big and I knew perfectly well what I had seen. He changed his tune when we found the second dog.

Wolves typically kill a dog by biting it thru the head then they tear the hide open on one side and start chewing on the short ribs.

The boy who owned the dogs eventually was paid $4500 compensation. That would have been enough money to buy the whole darn pack but wouldn't have coverd the cost of even one of the dogs that got killed.
 
A few weeks ago they were announcing on the radio that people near Black River Falls were not to feed the wolves along hwy 54, or stop to look at them, as the wolves were coming out towards cars along they highway expecting handouts....

Not too smart on somebody's part to be throwing stuff to them
 
A year ago some friends of ours lost 30 or so cattle (calves mostly) to a pack of wolves near Moquah, which is just a few miles from Ino. The DNR came in and trapped and killed 8 of them. I live a few miles from Ino, haven't seen any wolves myself but hear lots of stories of sightings.
 
Jeffo,

I am familiar with the high number of beef calf loses to wolves in northern WI. I have a couple of buddies form college up in north western wisconsin I also saw an article about it in one of the farm newspapers recently from damage near Bruce, which isn't far north either. Wolf predation on beef calves is a real sore spot with the farmers and lack of response from DNR.

Also a year or so ago when I worked in extreme southeastern MN I was talking to the MN Dept of ag guy who was in charge of dealing with wolf damage to livestock claims. He had asked if I had heard any reports of wolf predation in that area as there were known wolves all the way down the Mississippi River in MN.

I hadn't heard of any wolf reports, but there were reports of mountain lion sightings and a couple of actual cases of horses being clawed up on their backs when they were out in pastures surrounded by woods.....
 
Well, my dad owns land in the U.P. of Michigan and they saw a wolf eating a buck it killed about 50 yards off the road. They stopped on the road the wolf just looked at them and did not even get scared or run off, it just sat there chomping on the deer. Definitely not a coyote either, it was a wolf. I have seen wolf tracks on the property, but never seen one.
 
With large cats working there way from the south west and wolves migrating from the north, I believe it is not going to be long at all before Indiana gets the bigger predators back.
 
I think that the day will come that Wisconsin residence will be able to shoot wolfs. They are becoming a real problem up north. They have been sighted within 50 west of Milwukee !!
 
There probably is a good chance that in a few years there will be some kind of a wolf season, probably have to apply for a permit like bear and turkey.

Too bad we can't teach them to leave livestock alone and go thin the deer in the CWD zone....
 
The wolves will thin out ALL of the deer, just give them time. There are many areas here that used to have deer populations in them. They are now void of deer and full of, you guessed it, wolves. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif More sound game management from the MI Dept. of No Reason, aka MI DNR. MI VHNTR
 
MI VHNTR, my dad saw a mountain lion up there a couple weeks ago! Neither of us knew there were cats up there. It ran right by him at about 75 yards down a road on the property. Said he got a clear view of it and it was definitely a cat. Some of the locals he talked to also have seen a cat in the area. Just be glad you don't have the Colorado Division of Wildlife managing your state. We have a documented deer shortage yet they still sell doe tags, and they banned trapping.
 
dogcatcher223, I saw my first lion here in the late 70's. More and more people are reporting sightings of them now. Every year I see tracks from an adult and a juvenile lion in the area of the camp. In what area did your dad see the lion? MI VHNTR
 
Sorry for the late reply. His property is near the town of Pickford over on the east end of the UP. I think Stalwort (sp?) is close too. Hunting sucked up there last few years.
 
The hunting has gone downhill in a big way since all of the big predators were placed here. It's the same story in most places all over the UP. I'm in the north central UP, but I've been in the Pickford area quite a few times. MI VHNTR
 


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