On Sept. 19-20, the Ingalls lost three dogs and a heifer calf to the Gros Ventre wolf pack. Two were downed and one was fitted with a collar and released back to its home range up Goosewing Creek. He produces another map, one peppered with large black dots indicating where the traps were set, and smaller black dots indicating where dead cattle were found. Curiously, the big dots appear to attract the little dots. Dan Ingalls believes so.
Big dots are the research traps, the little dots are the kills.
The problem bears teach the other bears how to kill. And how to eat beef. Problem bears are routinely collared by government trappers and taken for a ride back to Yellowstone. But according to Ingalls, Yellowstone Park officials already have more grizzlies than they know what to do with. See, when they go out here and they start setting up a lot of stinky baits, they're pulling bears out of the recovery area.