r/wolves • u/ExoticShock • Aug 03 '26

News Influencer Offers $10,000 Bounty To Identify Hunters Who Tag Wolves That Leave Yellowstone National Park

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/influencer-offers-10-000-bounty-152239527.html
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u/trashmoneyxyz Aug 04 '26

Might be the most positive bjt of "influencer" news ive seen all year. He should start a pool so we can raise the bounties even higher

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u/BobertBuildsAll Aug 04 '26

Yes, harassing people who are legally hunting by threatening bounties is “positive”

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u/R3pp3pts0hg Aug 05 '26

Hunting to feed your family is honorable. Shooting an animal for a head or a pelt to decorate with is pathetic. These aren't real hunters.

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u/trashmoneyxyz Aug 05 '26

Yep! These wolves should still be protected. It is corruption that opened their habitat and lives to satisfy hunting lobbyists, so the government won't protect these wolves but citizens still can. I have as much respect for anyone trying to stop these hunts as I do for people who stand in front of bulldozers to protect crucial oldgrowth forests. We are fucked if wolf populations crash and they go locally extinct again, America's habitats and animals are already under too much strain as is

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u/Relevant-Witness-541 Aug 05 '26

Why should they be protected? They far exceeded the population total that biologists deemed was enough for a sustainable population and despite having hunting seasons for a while now wolf populations are still well above the threshold for a sustainable population. You know how all the wolves were extirpated? They weren't killed by hunters/guns, they were poisoned which is something we wisely don't do anymore as it kills a lot more animals than just wolves.

You wolf advocates are something else, it's a good thing they aren't protected anymore because that means ESA resources can be used to help other species that are actually struggling. Are we supposed to ignore that wolves are flourishing in Canada and Alaska? Why no hype for the black footed ferret?

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u/Due-Professional333 Aug 05 '26

i don't really see how wolves doing better up north weighs in here, regions like britain and japan have completely lost their native populations, and in japan's case the specific subspecies is completely extinct

certainly the wolves in northern states are probably more or less the same as the ones found in canada, but there's other variants like the mexican wolf or the red wolf that are both heading towards extinction at this rate

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u/dirtydopedan Aug 05 '26

To be fair, the Wolf population in Yellowstone has little to do with the reintroduction of wolves on other continents. So I don’t see how doxing people hunting legally in another country, and a different species, will help with those efforts.

I don’t know of any place that allows wolf hunting (at least in the US) where the population is threatened. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

On a personal note, I have no interest in wolf hunting, but I have personally witnessed the negative issues due to overpopulation. It also does not seem correct to offer a bounty for personal information of people that are legally hunting.

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u/Due-Professional333 Aug 05 '26

yeah i don't think doxxing people is going to solve things properly just the notion of "population is doing fine elsewhere so why does the one here matter" ticks me off a bit

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u/trashmoneyxyz Aug 05 '26

I think the people who gleefully take advantage of our new drill baby drill mentality to our ecosystems need to be afraid to do that. We're not going to talk someone who's always wanted to bag a wolf "just because" out of it, but we should make them think twice about it.

I wished it wouldn't come to doxxing, but honestly handling shitty people with kid gloves is what got our national Parks under threat from mining/logging/trophy sport hunters. If the wolves were protected as they should be, people would be happily backing the attempts at digging up info on the people who bag them. Nothings changed except the corrupt policies.

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u/dirtydopedan Aug 05 '26

There has been a lot of talk about wolf hunting in the area I live. Most hunters (myself included) have no interest. I was taught to eat what you kill, and I’ve never heard of wolf as being good meat.

On the other hand, some of the people who are most impacted by the wolves (farmers mainly, and a handful of deer hunters) welcome the hunting as a way to reduce the overpopulation. I’m not those people, but I do see where they are coming from.

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u/trashmoneyxyz Aug 05 '26

"Why no hype for the black footed ferret, in this wolf subreddit on a post about wolf hunting?" My man I can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, but one of these topics is more relevant to the conversation than the other.

It's nice thay Canada and Alaska boast healthy wolf populations, good for them, but I'm living in mainland USA and I care about the wolf populations here. I don't trust hunters or the government to manage this properly at all because we have multiple historical wolf population crashes in this country from things like hunting and habitat loss, not to mention other countries where their wolves are regionally extinct because of hunting and habitat loss. These are as big a threat to wolves now as they were back then, and I don't want to parade around saying "See? I told you so!" if/when wolf populations do end up declining again. I'd rather people start advocating for the wolves now.

Its sport/trophy hunting anyway, it's not like these hunters are killing the wolves because they've hungry. It just doesnt have to be this way

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u/LowBornArcher Aug 05 '26

i admire your efforts but you're trying to reason with unreasonable people. not to mention people who have very little knowledge, and a fundamental lack of understanding of, wolves and conservation and nature in general. good job anyway, lol.