Originally Posted By: ElkHunter
The wolves in MT, ID, and WY have had a huge impact on deer, elk, and moose populations. Only makes sense the yote will do the same here on our deer. There needs to be a good plan of attack to reduce the yote population.


I am going to have to disagree with you on that. I am not saying that yotes do not have an impact on our deer. But IMO you cant not say if wolves are doing it then yotes will too... I think that because the wolves in Idaho (I will only refer to them as its all I have seen) are Canadian Grey wolves. (not the native Timber Wolf) They are extremely larger and kill just as much for thrill of the kill and hunt as they do for need to eat to stay alive... The one I ave full body mounted in my living room is 7 foot 8 inches long nose to tail between 130=150 pounds and about 6 - 8 years old. Now those are some pretty impressive numbers for a dog. And to my knowledge and experience I have never sen a yote that weighted over 60 pounds. I have not seen the carnage from yotes that the wolves produce from yotes either. I have not seen or heard anyone that has confirmed that yotes hunt for thrill and waste more than they eat.

Now all that being said I still firmly believe in predator population control and will personally shoot every yapping yote I can !


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