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Originally posted by verylowfrequency
As long as wolves don't attack people, I don't see it as a big problem, but them I don't have a ranch with livestock Perhaps the rancher's should be compensated for their losses as part of the program.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by LadySkadi
I am a member of several animal rights groups, and I do not believe wild animals should be tagged either.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Wolves have been demonized, almost into extinction, and I have much sadness for this planet each time one of the worlds animals in slaughtered into extinction, their territory is encroached upon, and they are hunted out of existence.
I am a member of several animal rights groups, and I do not believe wild animals should be tagged either.
Originally posted by praxis
Judging by language, I see relatively few posts by people that actually live and play in the wild. I would guess that most people posting to this thread have never even seen a wolf or any other large predators. I would also guess that many posting here are city-dwellers driven only by Hollywood-caliber images and videos (regardless of source).
It's tragic that environmental political policy is being driven largely by people that have never cared for a herd, pitched a tent or lived in the rough. Such people are unqualified for ecology management in any meaningful way.
Originally posted by praxis
Judging by language, I see relatively few posts by people that actually live and play in the wild. I would guess that most people posting to this thread have never even seen a wolf or any other large predators. I would also guess that many posting here are city-dwellers driven only by Hollywood-caliber images and videos (regardless of source).
It's tragic that environmental political policy is being driven largely by people that have never cared for a herd, pitched a tent or lived in the rough. Such people are unqualified for ecology management in any meaningful way.
From Link Above :
November 27, 2009 —
Ralph Maughan Is there an explanation for this in the middle of the scheduled wolf hunt?
Right in the middle of the wolf hunt and in the zone where there is the highest quota, Wildlife Services took to the air this week in their gunships and blasted away the long-standing Basin Butte Pack at Stanley, Idaho.
This is one of 26 wolf packs Wildlife Service has labeled as a “chronic depredating” pack, which seems to mean a pack that at one or more times killed some domestic livestock.
It doesn’t mean killed recently, however. All the livestock left the area for the winter in October.
This pack has lived around Stanley, mostly in Stanley Basin for about 5 years now.
Even summer and part of the fall thousands of cattle and sheep are trucked into what many regard as Idaho most scenic valley.
Every year or so the pack kills a calf or two.
Amazingly it stays near the town of Stanley, even within city limits.
If this was a pack that was going to be taken during the wolf hunt, this would seem to be it.
From Link Above :
Idaho’s wolf hunt will be extended through March 31, or until each hunting zone reaches its quota, the state’s Fish and Game Commission decided at a Thursday meeting in Coeur d’Alene.
Low hunter success rates in some zones, including the Idaho Panhandle, prompted the three-month season extension for the wolf season, which was scheduled to end Dec. 31.
The longer hunt drew immediate criticism from the Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance of Sandpoint, whose members said it would lower wolf pup survival rates.
Quote from Article Above :
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A decade has passed since the federal government began returning endangered Mexican wolves to their historic range in the Southwest. It hasn't worked out — for the wolves, for ranchers, for conservationists or for federal biologists.
And that has resulted in frustration and resentment by many involved in the reintroduction program along the Arizona-New Mexico border, a landscape of sprawling pine and spruce forests, cold-water lakes and clear streams.
"I believe in being a good steward of the land and preserving it for generations to come, but this is ridiculous," said Ed Wehrheim, who heads the county commission in Catron County, in the heart of wolf country.
"I've had ranchers' wives come to me just bawling because everything they and their parents have worked for is going down the drain."
Four ranches have gone out of business since the wolf reintroduction began and another four are expected to do the same before next summer, Wehrheim said.
The alpha male of the Imnaha pack was wearing a GPS tracking collar when he was last observed on May 31st. Since then the collar has gone silent and ODFW has been unable to visually spot him.
It’s not all that unusual for collars to malfunction. The alpha female’s collar stopped working and it took ODFW several months before it was able to locate her.
But the news that the male is missing is worrisome, because this is the only known breeding pair of wolves in Oregon.
After an absence of 70 years, wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone Park in 1995, and elk populations began a steady decline, cut in half over the past decade. Also, the presence of a natural predator appears to have altered the behavior of the remaining elk, which in their fear of wolves tend to avoid browsing in certain areas where they feel most vulnerable. The two factors together have caused a significant reduction in elk browsing on young aspen shoots, allowing them to survive to heights where some are now above the animal browsing level
I have always wanted to own a real Wolf *sigh*