Wolves in Lytton.. laluwissin creek

[Busterpayton54]

Well I've spent a fair bit of time riding all over this drainage over the years and right about now if be seeing deer after deer after deer, 3-4-5-6 at a time burstsing about.

Yesterday not one single deer. Very little sign of them.

But there was plenty of wolf sign, something I had never seen there until yesterday.



For the record, anyone interested in the area... there's still deep snow in the shady areas of the road above pasulka lake, and very nasy mud holes at the west end of the reserve near the gate. I have very aggressive tires and I was quite uncomfortable.
i could see tracks that people had poked at this road from both ends but backed out. I was the first to run through.

Laluwissin fsr is blocked by deep snow and a mass of deadfall a couple km north of the Murray creek fsr turnoff.

Murray creek is snowed in just a couple km from the laluwissin turnoff.

[Boner]

I had to open it up last spring from all the pine deadfall. It’s going to be an ongoing battle for a few years.

[Busterpayton54]

Yea I've cleared it a time of two myself. A few years ago I burnt a lot of chainsaw gas just getting to the old cabin/shelter. Tree after tree after tree. I stopped
something like 20 times to cut.

[Boner]

One of the culverts on the way to the cabin got plugged, it was kinda tricky getting through with the spring runoff. I tried to clear it, but I couldn’t find the high side of the culvert to pick away at it.

Im not sure if the road got fixed yet to the hwy, we had to go around thru Botanie.

[Bugle M In]

So wolves there now as well.
I can't believe just how far they are expanding and at the rate they are in finding new territory.

When you watch a lot of the TV series, form all over, Alaska , Yukon, the lower 49, everyone one of them is complaining about the amount of wolves in their areas.

What is it going to take for the province to start waking up to the issue?
I guess Harrison Country is next?

[Boner]

There’s wolves in Harrison. I saw tracks on the east side, south of Port Douglas.

North end end of Stave too.

[Bugle M In]

There’s wolves in Harrison. I saw tracks on the east side, south of Port Douglas.

North end end of Stave too.

Well, there we go!

[Redthies]

They will start to clue in when Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten.

[Husky7mm]

Seen wolves in between just north of Lytton up in the alpine in the spring 15 yrs ago already. I am sure they came in from the north and west. Surprised it has taken this long to make a negative impact.

[Ohwildwon]

So wolves there now as well.
I can't believe just how far they are expanding and at the rate they are in finding new territory.

When you watch a lot of the TV series, form all over, Alaska , Yukon, the lower 49, everyone one of them is complaining about the amount of wolves in their areas.

What is it going to take for the province to start waking up to the issue?
I guess Harrison Country is next?

Saw a post on FB last week, chasing Deer on the golf coarse in Princeton!

Just brutal..

[Busterpayton54]

One of the culverts on the way to the cabin got plugged, it was kinda tricky getting through with the spring runoff. I tried to clear it, but I couldn’t find the high side of the culvert to pick away at it.

Im not sure if the road got fixed yet to the hwy, we had to go around thru Botanie. my last trip to the cabin was may 20 2017. The road was washed out about 1.5km south of the cabin. I made it through though.
Is this the washout you are speaking of, has the road been repaired since?

[Busterpayton54]

Saw a post on FB last week, chasing Deer on the golf coarse in Princeton!

Just brutal..

a couple years ago a very good friend and experienced outdoorsman was snowmobiling at the riding area west of the 7km marker of Burma road (stave lake). It was snowing like crazy that day, he messaged me when he got to reception that he was trailing a pack of wolves down the mountain.

Another friend of mine caught a big black wolf on his game camera in steelhead (between mission and maple ridge) 2 years ago.

And ive heard of 2 wolves being taken near where Sylvester Rd turns to gravel just out of mission.

[walks with deer]

ask takla about 2-8 wolves.seen one up sumas mountain 15 years ago

[Boner]

my last trip to the cabin was may 20 2017. The road was washed out about 1.5km south of the cabin. I made it through though.
Is this the washout you are speaking of, has the road been repaired since?

Thats about the right distance yes. It could have been repaired and washed out, or another one washed out since. They were logging in there in 2017.

[Wild one]

There has been wolves in Lytton/Spence’s for along time. Same goes for the lower mainland there was even a study on wolves in the Skagit

There is all kinds of animals that sneak under the radar

[caddisguy]

What is it going to take for the province to start waking up to the issue?
I guess Harrison Country is next?

Boston Bar seems to have a bunch. Tracks all over the place. Starting to remind me of hunting out in the south caribou (5-1) minus seeing them in broad daylight.

Last year was the first year we have heard them howling in the Chilliwack / Hope area and sure enough when the snow hit found tracks there for the first time. I was half expecting to see some on the trailcams.

What bugs me with these wolves showing up in the Fraser Valley is that there is no season for them in a lot of MU's.

Seems to be more whitetails showing up in Region 2 as well. I ran into a couple 2 weeks ago while checking cams.

[Busterpayton54]

Boston Bar seems to have a bunch. Tracks all over the place. Starting to remind me of hunting out in the south caribou (5-1) minus seeing them in broad daylight.

Last year was the first year we have heard them howling in the Chilliwack / Hope area and sure enough when the snow hit found tracks there for the first time. I was half expecting to see some on the trailcams.

What bugs me with these wolves showing up in the Fraser Valley is that there is no season for them in a lot of MU's.

Seems to be more whitetails showing up in Region 2 as well. I ran into a couple 2 weeks ago while checking cams.

my father hunts the east Anderson area for the last 15 years or so. It was normal that see a dozen or so deer, pick and choose the one. As of recent years he's lucky to see one a day. Wolves are everywhere. I was up there a few weeks ago and it was tracked right out.
I have some pics from last spring of a wolf prints I was tracking. I had my 75lb hybrid with me. His entire paws fit in it's palm pad alone. It had to be about 5" diameter.

[Bugle M In]

my father hunts the east Anderson area for the last 15 years or so. It was normal that see a dozen or so deer, pick and choose the one. As of recent years he's lucky to see one a day. Wolves are everywhere. I was up there a few weeks ago and it was tracked right out.
I have some pics from last spring of a wolf prints I was tracking. I had my 75lb hybrid with me. His entire paws fit in it's palm pad alone. It had to be about 5" diameter.
Yup, I had a track from a wolf for a few years in a row.
I could place my whole hand in the tracks.
The tracks were almost twice the size of any other wolf (and they weren't pup tracks with him)
So yes, I believe you.
And FYI, I think the wolf was taken by a friend I knew at the time and it would have made #2 in BC back then.

[Jack Russell]

There’s wolves in Harrison. I saw tracks on the east side, south of Port Douglas.

North end end of Stave too.

Yes, they're in the Lillooet river valley, north end of Harrison lake. Elk and deer are great wolf bait.