Wildlife reintroduction - why only predators?

[LostWapiti]

Yeah and the same could be said about predators.

“They” want wolves over every square acre and the wolves will do thy as they are very large natural wanderers. That’s why one of the releases CO wolves was already shot in WY.

 

[tdhanses]

“They” want wolves over every square acre and the wolves will do thy as they are very large natural wanderers. That’s why one of the releases CO wolves was already shot in WY.

Sure they do, but compare to most non predators that have been released, they have barely released any wolves and you started this by saying only predators are released, look at your title.

Go back and look at what the elk population was in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, don’t just cherry pick a small moment in time or you’ll never see the bigger picture of wildlife and how we have decimated them and brought them back from the brink.

Also for how quickly wolf numbers grew in MT, WY and ID they seem to have balanced off or people don’t talk about there being 50k wolves in these states and elk/deer are not going extinct there almost 20 years later.

The sky isn’t falling but if your worried buy a wolf tag and stop hunting deer and elk.

Also if one of the wolves released in CO was shot in WY there is a good chance the others will follow it but also that WY wolves will head south.

 

[Ozarkansas]

Sure they do, but compare to most non predators that have been released, they have barely released any wolves and you started this by saying only predators are released, look at your title.

Yeah there’s more elk in Kentucky than there are wolves in the lower 48. There’s about as many elk in the Ozarks as there are grizzlies in Montana. From a numbers perspective there have been way more herbivores introduced than predators.

And that’s only if we look at “localized” herbivore reintroductions. Whitetail and turkeys have been reintroduced so successfully that they’re pretty much everywhere, so herbivores win in a “widest geographic range” competition too.

 

[tdhanses]

Yeah there’s more elk in Kentucky than there are wolves in the lower 48. There’s about as many elk in the Ozarks as there are grizzlies in Montana. From a numbers perspective there have been way more herbivores introduced than predators.

And that’s only if we look at “localized” herbivore reintroductions. Whitetail and turkeys have been reintroduced so successfully that they’re pretty much everywhere, so herbivores win in a “widest geographic range” competition too.

And over the same general timeframe of when wolves were introduced at all.