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    Colorado wolves released today

    Just when I think I've already read the dumbest thing on the Internet, I get proven wrong.
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    The LR has not been open to retention every year on the opener, especially not above Slikok. And the fish that hit the river in May aren't the ones getting caught July 1. Les Anderson's WR was a May fish. Even with about a decade of closures on retention of May Kenai kings those 6yr ocean...
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    Questions about first waterfowl dog.

    I love my versatile dogs, but if OP is really just planning on a waterfowl dog, he's better off finding a local retriever club to get info on breeders in that area.
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    Ptarmigan

    I do a lot of ptarmigan hunting, but I'm doing it over my dogs with shotguns. That being said, for your situation, I would definitely go with the .22 over the .410. If you find some birds you should be able to make that work just fine. I think overall more ptarmigan in AK are killed with .22s...
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    Kenai River King Salmon - Circling the Drain

    One thing to keep in mind is that there are 2 runs of kings in the Kenai, with separate management parameters. The "early" run has been completely closed to harvest, and often no C&R even, more years than not over the past decade. And it is still struggling. There is definitely room for...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    To get a better view of the impacts of wolves on calf mortality, look at overall moose calf mortality rates from states with wolves and without. Across the board calf mortality rates for moose are high, ~60-80%, and predation is the leading cause of death for calves. That is true for states...
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    Vasectomy

    The odds of that happening are stupid low. Your odds of emergencies related to kids requiring you to leave a hunt early increase with every rugrat you pop out, and I would wager are higher odds than you having a hurt sack while hiking post normal recovery.
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    How many apples do you have?

    But if we start talking about certain Protein Consumer's height it'll get nuked, right? Grew up with a lovely little orchard. I've got a real weakness for a proper Fuji apple. We had a pair of Fuji trees that routinely put out +2lbers that were the perfect blend of sweet and tart with a snappy...
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    Vasectomy

    I love my two a lot. Most days at least. But I also learned to never let the enemy outnumber you.
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    I do. I saw a pair of wolves just off the highway not even 10 miles from my house last month. It was awesome. We typically get a brown bear or two wandering through the neighborhood each summer. Apex predators on the landscape is awesome.
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    That is in comparison to 2018-19 herd data I believe. If you go to the management plan you'll see data on herd populations going back to before wolves first were sighted returning to OR in 1999 and when the first pack was established in 2008. Back in 1999 there were roughly 120k total elk in OR...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    For Oregon here's the elk plan management doc that has some population data going back to before wolves were first reestablished in OR. It's interesting stuff https://www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/management_plans/docs/ElkPlanfinal.pdf What I find fascinating is that despite Oregon's idiocy re...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    Look into non additive mortality. Of all causes of death in the study, wolves killed 32% of them. That says nothing about what percentage of the living population dies from predation each year. If you delete the wolves, roughly the same number of game animals will die from predation be it from...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    Overall increase statewide, but it's a mixture of ups and downs across the units with increases and declines in wolf and non wolf units (and for both Roosevelt and Rocky/American subspecies) from what I remember seeing.
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    Vasectomy

    The look on the dr.'s and nurses' faces when I asked them to position a mirror so I could watch was priceless. Even better when they realized I was serious 🤣. It was cool to watch actually. My doc did the burn a small hole right on the seam method and used that to fish out the vas deferens on...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    Could be true. But I do temper my opinion on the impacts of wolves on CO moose with recognizing that wolves are native to Colorado, moose are not. Moose did not occur in CO until the 1970s transplants, other than the rare wanderer in NW CO that came from UT or WY. I'm a lifelong hunter from...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    Based on posts #274-279, and others sprinkled throughout the prior 14 pages bemoaning wolves as the culprit for moose declines in [insert location here], enough to be worth bringing up some actual facts and a published study.
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    I'm not saying wolves have zero impact. And most ungulate calves/fawns tend to suffer from high predation rates whether it's wolves, bears, coyotes, etc. What I'm saying is that the brain worm and tick issues are worse than wolves. Even in Minnesota. While yes, this study found wolves to be...
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    I dont understand the hostility towards wolf reintroduction in Colorado

    Brainworm and ticks are affecting moose populations worse than predation by wolves or other species.
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    Solo hunting upland birds

    Any pheasants you find in AK are dog training escapees for the most part. There is a small population that seems to be sustaining itself around Homer though.

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