We keep some of our horses year around in a couple of huge pastures across the road from the house. Sometimes they are out of sight for several days and I go looking for them to see if they had become wolf bait. Have not lost one yet, but have had to actually run some wolves off when they had some of my horses surrounded. There has been lots of cattle losses in the valley and one horse due to the wolves. In the winter after the elk season is closed the gate to the forest is closed and I can see the horses as they wait to be fed in the snow and cold. We can see them most of the time from the kitchen window. Early on Mike "Hawkbow" Huston started calling me wolfwatcher and there is not a day goes by that we don't start the day and continue to watch for them. We saw three day before yesterday in the front pasture. They seemed to be only passing through and as long as we have the big elk herds the wolves feed on them. We see them in the hills, but are not allowed to shoot them due to the "Endangered Classification"! I got the Indian Joe name in the early 70s going to the grade schools dressed in my Indian gear to demonstrate knapping and tell the "Indian Story" and that name has hung on ever since!
