Spent this week down in the Alaska Range scouting places to hunt bears this spring, and looking for Wolves. Met a trapper that had caught five wolves. Saw the pelts when I first got over there. He had them dried and stretched, ready for market. The pelts were not the best looking I had seen. The trapper said the wolves had lice. The trapper took them in and only got $50.00 each for them. All the wolves he took this year was like that. I asked what was going on, I already knew but I wanted to hear his explination.
Several years ago our governor Tony Knowles, bowing to the environmental groups, instead of killing excess wolves decided to relocate them. Wolves were trapped in the McGrath area and in the 40 mile country near Eagle. These wolves were taken to the Keni pennisula, where the numbers of wolves were low due to lice infestation. They turned these wolves loose where they got infested with lice from the locals. Then almost everyone of them returned home, taking the lice with them, and passing them out along the way. Now our wolves here in the interior are infested to such an extent their pelts are almost worthless. The environmentalist agenda is working they are putting a stop to trapping, but at what cost and misery to the wolves? One hard winter and their will be a massive die off. Unlike the Wolves on the Keni where the weather is not so cold. The Wolves in the interior cann't live with out their fur. The bald spots will frost bit and get infected, then slow aggonising death.
