North Florida Chapter Safari Club International

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President's Message

We have been fortunate to hunt several different clubs and hunting areas in America this season.  Every on of them is covered up in coyotes.  The coyote is a killer of game animals and livestock that was introduced in the 1970's by dog trainers, theswreleses to train dogs along with their proliferation and migration has brought them to inhabit the entire eastern seaboard across the whole of this United States.  The eastern coyote is 15% larger than the western coyote in body weight, (read this in SCI) and they are an undesirable species in every outdoorsmans vocabulary.  While the coyote is responsible for decimating whitetail herds and other game in the eastern U.S., its destuction is small compared to the dirty deeds of destruction wreaked by the wolfpacks of the west.  These wolves introduced are not a native species and neither are they endangered.  The recent killing of a 280 pound wolf in southwest Montana proves that a Russian wolf, which is not a native species and not endangered is one of the species brought in by the dogooders with the federal government.  The native wolves from out west weighed about 85 to 90 pounds or about 3 times the size of a coyote.  The Canadian wolves brought in are also non-native and not endangered in their native Canada.  They can weigh up to 180 to 200 pounds.  We do not want either of these wolf species in the United States.  The resident elk herd in Yellowstone Park has been reduced from over 20,000 resident animals to less than 2,000.  Now the wolves have started on the Buffalo, Bighorn sheep, Antelope, Deer, and Moose.  The videos are on u-tube, ittakes a wolfpack 2 to 3 days to kill a large bull moose, and they eat it while it is still alive.  They kill the big bull elk first as the bulls lover their horns to defend the herd the large non native not endangered species of wolves jump on the horns and take them down along with the calves first.  Soon there will be no more animals in Yellowstone?  Yes really this is what is happening.  I plan to hunt wolf next year.  Please if you get to hunt Idaho, Montana, or Wyoming, buy a wolf tag and shoot one to protect the game we love to purse.The wolves are moving into Colorado now and will decimate that states record elk herd numbers next.  More on the wolf next month.  

Good hunting,

Tom Powell, President

North Florida Chapter

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