Wolves in Idaho

[fabsroman]

Yeah, that is kind of tough. Northern species are just bigger animals period. Take northern whitetails and compare them to the ones in Texas or Mexico. They are much bigger animals.

The northern prey animals (i.e., Moose, Elk, Whitetails, Mulies, Caribou) probably had to be bigger bodied animals to survive the elements. Hence, evolution probably only allowed the larger predators to survive and the runts were not able to live long enough to reproduce.

Introducing northern species into a southern climate can wreak havoc on the ecology, but leave it up to man to do something like this. We try to fix the ecology that we ruined in the first place.

Believe it or not, they introduced resident geese in several states several years ago, probably over a decade, and now they have one heck of a problem with them in Maryland. They are proposing a resident goose season that will open the first of August with a 15 bird limit and no requirement for plugs in the shotguns. Maryland has a resident goose population close to 90,000 and its target population is 30,000. I will not even get into the whitetail issue here. Of course, the abundance of these animals makes it great for sportsmen, but it is sometimes scary driving to the fields in the early morning worrying about hitting a deer on the interstate at 75 mph.