Wolves in the Backyard

That is incredible buschman!

2nd that!! that is some great work!!!

No surprise here, 2024 was a record breaking year for wolf conflicts in MN.

Wisconsin had the highest in recent years as well.

https://www.mesabitribune.com/news/wolf-complaints-reach-record-high-in-minnesota/article_737c96fe-f840-11ef-8882-c734a7ba31e2.html

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Just read an article about wolf compensation in the area of the recent wolf introduction in Colorado. 2 ranchers are asking for close to 500k for losses that includes: livestock kills, livestock low weight gains, and low breeding success do to stress in sheep and cattle herds.
It will wipe out the money set aside for damage compensation.
There are several more claims to be filed.

Just read where there has been 2 dogs killed and 2 harassment cases verified in NE Wi. in 2025.

It should be legal to defend your family and property from any threat whether it be 2 or 4 legged.

Beast wrote:

It should be legal to defend your family and property from any threat whether it be 2 or 4 legged.

I agree.

same here

A genetics company called Colassal Biosciences has successfully revived a previously extinct Dire Wolf. The Dire Wolf was a larger, heavier, more powerful version of the Gray Wolf that died out roughly 10,000 years ago.

Up next: the wolly mammoth, projected for revival in 2028.

And you guys thought gray wolves were a problem. Just wait until we go back in time and have saber tooth cats out there decimating our deer herd.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562

seen that today on the news, just going to say interesting

Have these fools not seen Jurassic Park?

grubson wrote:

Have these fools not seen Jurassic Park?

2nd that!!!

I wonder if they can get the original bison going again? They were a lot bigger than the bison that have been around the last 10,000 years. I’m all for it.

I have mixed emotions about bringing back something that is extinct. On one hand its cool as heck that we have the capability to do that, but on the other its but should we? I mean, there was a reason they were extinct right? Its not like man hunted them out of existence. They died off due to various other factors. They start bringing back dinosaurs and I am out.

I think playing God is a bad idea. With extinct animals could come extinct viruses, bacterias, or diseases as well.

With the rise of AI and now bringing back extinct species, we’ll be fighting terminators and dinosaurs. I’d say we’re probably screwed.

funded by the CIA?

Got politicians trying to sell off public land in MT, of course it makes sense to add more biodiversity to a shrinking range!

Matt Moen wrote:

With the rise of AI and now bringing back extinct species, we’ll be fighting terminators and dinosaurs. I’d say we’re probably screwed.

Haha. Yup. But no reason to fret when the future is inevitable.

We can bring back extinct species from over 10,000 years ago, but we cannot find a cure for most cancers that is viable.

I’m not really a conspiracy theorist whatsoever, but it does make you wonder if certain answers and cures are a matter of not having the capabilities ….or whether those 1%ers and corporations in power care to find the answers and cures.

$640 billion as of 2020 towards AIDS vaccine research and no cure in site but a small funded group of scientists can bring back an extinct killing machine. I’d say this checks out.

Technically this is nothing more than grey wolf genetically modified to have traits that mimic those of the dire wolves, but it’s still pretty crazy and could be the ultimate Pandora’s Box when it’s applied to humans.

Getting old sucks in some regards, but I am glad I am not any younger in other instances. This planet is going to be a real strange place in coming generations.

I would hunt a wolly mammoth. Would be pretty sweet.

grubson wrote:

I think playing God is a bad idea.

so I assume you are against fish stocking then?

Jimmy wrote:

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I think playing God is a bad idea.

so I assume you are against fish stocking then?

Are we stocking formerly extinct fish species?

^Researchers are working on bringing back the extinct Helicoprion. It sounds like there may be plans to stock early genitically modified individuals in Mille Lacs. With it’s unique teeth it will be able to saw right through the Native nets, thus benefiting the fishery as a whole.

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Youbetcha wrote:

I would hunt a wolly mammoth. Would be pretty sweet.

What round for wolly mammoth? Or is shot placement more important?

Stanley wrote:

What round for wolly mammoth? Or is shot placement more important?

A BIG one and yes to the second question too.

Youbetcha wrote:

I would hunt a wolly mammoth. Would be pretty sweet.

I’m thinking that woolly mammoth re-introductions would be a bit of a political hot potato with the farmers and ranchers. Little buggers would be a little hard on fences.

There were all kinds of strange creatures that died out during the ice ages that would be really impressive if they existed today.

The aurochs is the king-sized ancestor of modern cattle. These giant bouvine species were present in many parts of Europe, but eventually died out. Think of the ribeyes these babies would produce…

Aurochs on left, modern cattle on right.

grubson wrote:

Are we stocking formerly extinct fish species?

These species would not exist in the lakes they’re being stocked if it wasn’t for man stepping in and playing god. So yes, by re-introducing these fish to lakes they naturally died out in, or never existed in the first place, we are playing god so to speak.