Chickenhawk
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Who has see them in the last few years?
Here’s a wolf kill from the lake Cle Elum area. Found it while out getting a Christmas tree back at the end of November. Wdfw says there are no more left in the teanaway
I’ve seen a bunch of sign on the other side of the river. (Chiwawa)Not the entiat but I’ve seen two in Teanaway already this year and we are only 8 days in
Please don't feel like I'm attacking you with this post because that is not my intent, but that carcass does not appear to be a wolf kill. I've hunted wolves more than 300 days (with them as the specific, target species) and I've actually observed them kill and consume a mature mule deer doe. We tried to make a play on the pack to shoot them, but the guy I was with ran out of gas climbing to get to a shooting location. Since the pack of four had vacated the kill site, we went over to it out of curiosity to see what remained (and to get on their tracks). Wish I had photographed it. The only two things that remained were the full rumen and the hide. The wolves ate EVERYTHING else. They ate the skull, the ribcage, the femurs, the spine - everything. They even turned the ears inside out and ate the cartilage in them. Incredible, but not as incredible as catching back up to the pack at dark. Jon Rochelle, a PhD predator biologist at Idaho Fish & Game (who has now promoted to some lofty position at the Department) once told me that deer are trail mix for wolves. He claimed that dry ground deer kills were virtually impossible to detect because wolves consume all parts of the deer.Here’s a wolf kill from the lake Cle Elum area. Found it while out getting a Christmas tree back at the end of November. Wdfw says there are no more left in the teanaway