Since the promo has already started and the newswires have picked up the story, I figure I may as well start promoting these episodes on our site. Many of you followed along on the "Live Hunt" thread linked below. It is the most followed thread in the history of Hunt Talk. Imagine that 
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http://onyourownadventures.com/hunttalk/showthread.php?t=249122
Here is one of the most recent columns that came out today. It was published in Game and Fish Magazine. A small interview such as this is hardly enough space to convey all the feelings and emotions that this episode captures, from the political battles, to the challenge of the hunt, to the mixed emotions of walking up to a wolf and realizing how the wolf, much like hunters, has been used as a pawn in a bigger battle of ideologies related to control over western lands and wildlife.
http://www.gameandfishmag.com/2012/...onfronts-polarizing-issue-of-wolf-management/
The first episode will premier on Thursday, August 16th. That lays the ground work of how it came to be that Montana has a wolf season, how the lands we hunters protected for elk were a result of the same efforts that set the table for wolf reintroduction, and some close calls with wolves that put the slip on us.
The second episode premiers the following Thursday, August 23rd. That episode is a hard core pursuit of wolves, one coyote gets his five seconds of TV glory, and a good perspective of the respect you will gain from chasing wolves, whether you tag one, or not.
I am sure all who hunted wolves this last year will agree with me when I state how impressive they are, how better suited they are to live in these mountians, and the great level of appreciation I have for them and what they must do to make a living. I intend to chase wolves so long as they will let me. I will argue until the end of time that wolves have a place in our system, even if it creates hard feelings among those who have no use for them.
As hunters, we have been about restoration of species to their native ranges and then helping to manage them in the fractured habitats that currently exist. Wolves fit that same model. They will benefit from hunting, as will the elk, and the hunters chasing them. Wolves will not disappear as a result of hunting and hopefully some level of local control via hunting will increase the tolerance of the wolves' presence on the landscapes, albeit at levels below what we have today.
Hope you like it.
.http://onyourownadventures.com/hunttalk/showthread.php?t=249122
Here is one of the most recent columns that came out today. It was published in Game and Fish Magazine. A small interview such as this is hardly enough space to convey all the feelings and emotions that this episode captures, from the political battles, to the challenge of the hunt, to the mixed emotions of walking up to a wolf and realizing how the wolf, much like hunters, has been used as a pawn in a bigger battle of ideologies related to control over western lands and wildlife.
http://www.gameandfishmag.com/2012/...onfronts-polarizing-issue-of-wolf-management/
The first episode will premier on Thursday, August 16th. That lays the ground work of how it came to be that Montana has a wolf season, how the lands we hunters protected for elk were a result of the same efforts that set the table for wolf reintroduction, and some close calls with wolves that put the slip on us.
The second episode premiers the following Thursday, August 23rd. That episode is a hard core pursuit of wolves, one coyote gets his five seconds of TV glory, and a good perspective of the respect you will gain from chasing wolves, whether you tag one, or not.
I am sure all who hunted wolves this last year will agree with me when I state how impressive they are, how better suited they are to live in these mountians, and the great level of appreciation I have for them and what they must do to make a living. I intend to chase wolves so long as they will let me. I will argue until the end of time that wolves have a place in our system, even if it creates hard feelings among those who have no use for them.
As hunters, we have been about restoration of species to their native ranges and then helping to manage them in the fractured habitats that currently exist. Wolves fit that same model. They will benefit from hunting, as will the elk, and the hunters chasing them. Wolves will not disappear as a result of hunting and hopefully some level of local control via hunting will increase the tolerance of the wolves' presence on the landscapes, albeit at levels below what we have today.
Hope you like it.
