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Careful...I think it is classified as an addiction....you can't just go once

No worries Pipes. It is a good topic to discuss. Finding solutions to keep most people happy and that make sense beyond emotion is challenging. Sheep populations seem to be under quite a bit of stress. Hopefully a long term management plan can be created/implemented that allows them to thrive

I never said we need to cull wolves to make hunting easier. The only cull going on is for the caribou, other than that I believe there is a general season for wolves to keep numbers around 4000 or so. I don't plan on ever doing any predator hunts. I think it is great we have some apex predators around. The wolves are incredibly good at doing their job. I'm not sure I've heard of any ungulate populations getting out of control (except Suffield) that need to be lowered by predation. It seems hard winters tend to knock back populations pretty well. Agricultural concerns of crop predation by elk seems to get handled by late season cow elk hunting

Man's disruption of the environment for resource extraction has huge consequences. Unfortunately, we can't just leave the animals to figure it out after the mess we've made. Man is not going to stop taking trees and stuff out of the ground. Not pretty, but it is what it is. Wildlife management is a very complicated issue. The caribou won't make it without some help now that man has made it easier for the wolves. Not trying to be selectively greedy Brent, but the prey species need some help when the systems are so far from where they should be.

Pipes, I agree that wolves have a spot to fill on the landscape. Very impressive creatures. However, I am sure the elk herds that have disappeared on the Ya Ha Tinda ranch and the caribou that are trying to exist near Grand Cache might figure a few less would be beneficial. The increased evidence of wolves from Waterton to the far north leads me to believe that the wolf population has increased significantly in the last decade. There are even wolves at Suffield now out on the prairie. Your link didn't work for me, so I guess I will have to find some studies myself showing how the wolf population in Alberta has changed in the last 20 years. Do you have scientific evidence showing wolf populations in Alberta are in trouble?

Ah, it's all hiking up steep slopes and carrying heavy stuff. It's really just a bunch of work and no fun involved

Last week the wolves were chasing the elk. This week I find that a cougar ate the mule deer. Does PETA know these mean animals are in the forest

I was not.....and the sunrise rocked

Looks like you are having fun

WD now found at Red earth creek area upstream of Bow Falls. I heard that samples for Calgary should be available in February

An skilled artist and fisherman. Nice to use some fancy tools while you're playing

Cold on the pumpkin this morning. Heavy frost everywhere. Great safari though....moose, elk, antelope, pheasant, Huns, sharptails and some whitetails (just not the right one)

Well good luck. Tomorrow is whitetail Wednesday. Last couple of elk days next wk

There seems to be a lot of wolves all over the place. Things sure have changed in the last 10 years

Unfortunately I can't get any more holidays....poor me. Saw a bunch of wolf tracks and cougar tracks today. Those mean animals are chasing my elk

Day off here, day off there. I like to spread them out a bit. Just a couple of days left I have slaved at one job long enough to get a good number of holidays. Don't hate me because I like to go outside

Black coloring often shows up at an infection site....not necessarily from whirling disease

No elk today. Just seeing Mule deer and a fox. Moose in the freezer

Tried to find some fur, but got stuck watching the sky

I often only use 10 feet. You don't need to go over 15ft. If you are going to make your own, just keep it short so the loops don't have to go inside the tip top. I broke a tip off a sink tip on a snag once and just looped a piece of old full sink type IV lake line on the running line. Still going strong. I would suggest a 10ft type V or VI sink tip. Rio or Sci Anglers will have something for you. Have some weighted and unweighted streamers available to choose from

One good thing is that the Bow's spawning streams don't have a lot of mud. Hopefully that will limit the host worm population

They are up high on the grass ridges along the edges of the Porcupines living with the elk. There are a lot of grazing leases north, south and east of Brooks where they live. Also lots on the Milk River Ridge One in front of my dog

That will work great. As long as it has a black tail you are in business. I've caught fish in the Bow with just about every body color...just need a black tail. Longer tails are probably OK for running water as the fish are usually aggressively chasing the fly down. You can even add 3 or 4 strands of flash to the tail

Irrigation ditches start with water from Chestermere and head east-northeast. One of these ditches is where the carp got dumped ( I believe NW of Strathmore). Then the water moves NE to Serviceberry to Rosebud to the Red Deer river. Carp could spread all over the irrigation system. With buckets they can get everywhere....like Blood Indian Res out in the desert