Minnesota sketches fall wolf hunting season

[photogpat]

BWCA this past Sept (with the fires and all). We had a midnight prowler in camp WAY out in the boonies....one of the two-legged kinds. He (assuming not a she) rifled through our bear sack, camp kitchen and boat before my buddy woke up and heard him. He was startled into running off into the woods by several loud noises coming from our tent...sounded just like gun shots....weird!

[Eric Marleau]

Guns have always been legal in the BWCA yukon.

The Forest Circus and far out flower sniffer groups have spread their BS, and it has worked far and wide.

It's funny, but I can talk politics to the most far out liberal, argue like heck, but still go out and have lunch with the person.

Start talking environmentalist crap to me, and I make GyrFalcon look like a pacifist.

I've fought those bastards for 35 years, being a big part in the BWCA fight, even going as far as being arrested for a snowmobile test case, and shutting down all of the entry points for a day, and then even now, concerning taking a gun into the woods, they still manage to piss me off enough that I should take a blood pressure pill.

Boy I hate those lying idiots.

Sorry for the rant.

Eric

[Heffay]

You went snowmobiling in the BWCA??

[yukonjasper]

totally understand - I get real frustrated with the hold up of the PolyMet mining operations and mining in general. The Tree Huggers don't realize that people need to make a living and that trees grow back. The negative influence of environmental groups on the economy of the Iron Range and the rest of Nothern Minnesota has been a source of irritation for me my entire life.

Seems to me, I've seen a some information from the Sierra Club that contemplates deflating the economy to such an extent that most if not all residents would move out, so they could turn the Arrowhead and West into one big uninhabited wilderness perserve. Not sure how real that is, but it doesn't surprise me.

[Eric Marleau]

Don't want to hijack this post, but in the Politics section, I would have a whole lot to say on the history, and destruction of our way of life, which affects my children, in living the great wonderful way that I did before it was ruined by the sierra club, "friends" of the bwca, and their cronies.

Eric

[photogpat]

Here's the "restoration" project for the Great Plains - Buffalo Commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons

The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the buffalo, or American Bison, that once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The proposal would affect six Western States (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas), and four Midwest states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas).

[Jackpine Savage]

You went snowmobiling in the BWCA??

I think in 1984 they closed the last snowmobile routes in the BWCA. On a few trips we used to take a snowmobile up the Moose Lake chain and then ski into Canada.

[Eric Marleau]

The last full winter for the snowmachine was 1982. Minntac was shut down that year, so all of us had the winter off.
I spent over 75 days that winter in the woods trout fishing. I still have my journal around somewhere of that time. I believe that I took home around 50 trout. Most of that winter we snowmachined to Knife Lake, and Otter Track, then showshoed into Canadian lakes.
Jan. 1st of 1983 was the last day for motors.
I made trails into Found Lake and Scull Lake that we used the rest of the winter skiing, and fished for planted trout.

Eric

[Jackpine Savage]

Eric, you probably know my cousin. He was arrested in Voyageurs protesting the ban on waterfowl hunting, after the politicians broke their promise that hunting would still be allowed after it was declared a park.

[Eric Marleau]

All over Northern Minnesota, we have lost our Rights.
I have many Native Americans who I have hunted with, and been great life long friends with, who have told me that now I know how their Ancestors felt when they were lied to, and their lands taken over.
Are they right about that.

Eric

[Eric Marleau]

Just received this from the DNR. More information on Wolf Hunting; The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is proposing an inaugural gray wolf hunting and trapping season this fall that calls for a conservative harvest quota of 400 animals.

Wolf research indicates Minnesota's wolf population could sustain a higher quota, but DNR officials say they are taking a measured approach to the state's first season.

The proposal sets a quota of 6,000 licenses that will be allocated through a lottery system. Only one license will be allowed per hunter or trapper. Hunting would be allowed with firearms, archery equipment and muzzleloaders. Calls and bait would be allowed with restrictions.

The season is proposed for the end of November and would be closed once the quota is met. Hunters would be required to register animals on the same day they are harvested and data would be collected from carcasses. Other states with harvest seasons for wolves and other big game animals similarly monitor seasons and close them when quotas are met.

Eric

[FJ540]

Just what we need - something to further eff up the last half of the archery deer season...

Why not make it in January when deer is over?

[grousemaster]

Just what we need - something to further eff up the last half of the archery deer season...

Why not make it in January when deer is over?

Guess I'll have to be more afraid of the dogs running into traps this fall....

[DeanC]

Just what we need - something to further eff up the last half of the archery deer season...

Why not make it in January when deer is over?

Most guys don't archery hunt in the primary wolf zone. If they hunt at all, they go muzzleloader.

[FJ540]

I heard more howling than I saw deer this year...