Artic Wolves this far down

[Buddiechrist]

Well got another call about Arctic Timber Wolves up at Stave Lake this morning.

It appears that this cold weather is attracting some VERY nasty wildlife.

This time it was a full sized great dame that was taken about 14km into the bush about 3-4 km up mountain from turn off to mud flats, here's the shocker though; it was taken by a smaller scout wolf, that was still rough measurements of 5-6 feet tall and over 8 feet long with tail, and we are guessing it would be close to 250-300lbs. Now Wolves NEVER travel alone also never fight alone, they are communicating pact hunters, that set up traps, and since they are running off with other canines the size of themselves I would suggest not 4x4ing snowmobiling target shooting etc up at Stave / Allouette Area's until spring. I personally believe they will target people with dogs as so far every report we've seen has been a wolf attacking or running off with dogs so I would assume they are becoming territorial or seeing other canines as a threat to their food source. Its only a matter of time before one of these beasts runs off with a person so avoid these areas if you can, if not make sure to have Bear spray / bear bangers and a gun, if you don't have all 3 I would not suggest heading into the bush till spring.

[monkE]

wow that's crazy! Thanks for the heads up man.


So what do you do? are you a park ranger? or animal control? sound like a pretty cool, but dangerous job

[Grete_J]

I doubt it was an arctic wolf, but I've seen grey wolves in the farther out burbs before. Thanks for the warning though, we like going out to Stave Lake in the jeep... with the dogs... who make great snacks

[Buddiechrist]

I have several Forest Ranger friends, but none of them are as good of hunters as us, so we are on contract for tracking / relocation of large game.

Not sure if they are grey or arctic but since we gotta go set up 100+ trap cameras today we'll know for sure by Wednesday

[jobber604]

That's some disturbing news for neighbours. Half of me says wow, that's cool that there's still such wildlife around us, but the other half says...wow that's scary stuff for a werewolf on the loose.
Heard Grizzly bears are coming down the Pitt Lake valley also.

It doesn't surprise me. There was a black bear downtown Vancouver that took 20 VPD officers and 2 conservation officers to deal with

[davefrombc]

I would take that story with a large grain of salt

[architeuthis]

It appears that this cold weather is attracting some VERY nasty wildlife

What it drops below freezing for one day and now we have wolves?

[cowis]

wow this is crazy!!! If posible when u get the resalts can u post pics? id love to see these animals!!!!

[mdwflyer]

Wolves are not to be messed with. A few years ago I was working out of a camp in Northern Sask. There were wolves all over the place, nobody went anywhere alone.

There was some university students on a project in the camp, and for fun, they would go get pictures of themselves in front of the wolves. Then one of the kids went out on his own, and did not show up in camp for dinner...found later mauled to death. Couple months later at a mine site 30 miles down the road, a miner was jogging down the road actually got attacked by a single wolf. He was fighting with it, and the only thing that saved him was a truck full of people that came down the road. He had punctures in his torso, and was just lucky the truck came when it did.

Be careful.

[tony1928]

Amazing if true. Would love to see those pics.

My friend is a builder of high end homes and when he tore up this place near UBC, he could see into his next door neighbour's lot. These lots were massive....maybe 200 feet wide and a couple hundred feet long. He thought it was weird that it had 8 foot tall chain link fence with razor wire. Apparently the neighbour was breeding wolf hybrids. When the crew was working on construction, once in a while, one of the wolf dogs? would freak out and lunge at them. Let's just say that fence couldn't be tall enough.