“We are the only God dang state that promotes predator populations instead of freaking controlling them,” said Sam Sawyer, among several Prince of Wales Island trappers attacking a planned 31-day wolf season as too short.
So if we assume that this year will be an average year that would result in harvest of about 80 wolves,” he explained. “However, it could be as few as 65 or could be as many as nearly 100. And we’re comfortable with something within that range. We think that’ll be sustainable and provides a lot of opportunity.”
“This season being 31 days would be a travesty to say the least,” he said. “We’re at a point right now that we could actually fix this, if we just keep on — but we need a little bit more time. We have to have at least two months, I think, to really get after it.” Other trappers spoke about a declining deer population. Howard Walcott, said he sees more wolves than deer while out setting his traps. He said that’s a bad sign. Everybody’s saying it. I’m just gonna say it a nice way … we have too many wolves,” he said. “It’s plain and simple.”The deer, I mean, it’s, it’s shocking the number of wolves that we’ve seen and heard, and the lack of deer,” he said. “So speaking for a whole bunch of local residents that our subsistence needs are not being met.
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