Great Yellowstone Thaw......

[2peterhunter]

I just watched this show on Netflix and am wondering if anyone else has?

My brother and sister in law recommended it so I checked it out. Seems to be fairly biased towards the wolves needing help and struggling! I am wondering if anyone else noticed this? Knowing the difficulty elk have faced at least where I hunt in Idaho it kind of made me mad.

Thoughts?

 

[ethan]

Read “The Real Wolf”. It’s a little biased, if anything’s in the other direction, but it’s pretty sobering when you look at the hard facts of the damage the wolves have done.

 

[Broomd]

Haven't watched it, but your assessment makes it sound like Progressive pro-wolf, pro man-caused global warming dribble, which it likely is.

 

[LongWayAround]

My girlfriend watches all the animal documentaries on Netflix. I try to look past some of the bias in them and enjoy the footage. It's too bad the wolves have hurt elk populations, but wolves hunting makes for pretty good film.

It doesn't have to be political.

Besides, if the people that make those films were hunters, they would probably be out hunting instead of filming animal behavior.

 

[PF_JM]

Just watched the first episode of the series. Definitely made it seem like the wolves were helpless critters that are barely able to stay fed due to global warming. Very progressive lean to the whole thing, about what you would expect from most nature docs nowadays.

 

[5MilesBack]

It doesn't have to be political.

You're right about that. If everyone was capable of using logic, we'd all be on the same page.

Sounds like the people of the past were just way ahead of their time with getting rid of the wolves. So now the greenies bring them back to watch them suffer through global warming? LOL.

 

[Hunter Sargent]

Watched it last night (except for the last 15 minutes), and I didn't get any political bias at all.

 

[LongWayAround]

Maybe the problem is that people look for reasons to be divisive?

Good ole boy vs greenie
Environmentalist vs redneck

 

[Broomd]

Pardon the mini rant....

The Progressive movement epitomizes divisiveness.. Most 'rednecks' want to be left alone, they live and let live, they keep to themselves.
Progressives, 'occupy', and Antifa are the antithesis of all of that. Violent, loud-mouthed thugs that are hellbent on indoctrinating others with their socialism. There is no reasoning with them, many of us have tried. Speech is free for them, but no one else.
And they want those of us who dispute AGW (man-caused warming) to be punished or worse. Psychos 'R' us....

 

[MattB]

I haven't seen the show, so apologies if my comments are a bit off the mark. The sad/ironic reality is the folks who are interjecting their political view into the film are likely the same ones who are to blame for the wolf's troubles. If wolf numbers were allowed to be managed before they expanded to the point they decreased the YS elk herd from ~18K to ~4K, they wouldn't be in the position where their numbers may plummet. YS elk numbers were artificially high which allowed wolf numbers to expand to where they were artificially high, and now the wolf numbers will reduce trailing elk numbers.

 

[LongWayAround]

I watched episode two last night.

There was no political slant to it. Unless you want to blame beavers for climate change.

 

[mtnkid85]

Like every other animal they talked about the climate also effects predators.
I thought it was ok... *shrug*

 

[Broomd]

I watched episode two last night.

There was no political slant to it. Unless you want to blame beavers for climate change.

I'm going to watch this and see how our notes compare....I suspect the opposite.