[sergeantdave]

Biologists report that the Yellowstone National Park wolf packs are killing America’s wildlife in unprecedented numbers.

Prior to wolf introduction in 1995, 19,500 elk in the great northern Yellowstone elk herd and more than 300 big horn sheep lived in the ten square miles around Gardiner, Montana, along with abundant moose, antelope and mule deer.

Montana state moose biologist Kurt Alt said that the moose are all but wiped out. The National Academy of Science in its March, 2002, report announced that the antelope population is a small fraction of what it was. A Montana Game Warden north of Yellowstone Park warns that the mule deer population is in serious trouble.

The study supports wildlife researchers from other areas who report that wolf packs are relentlessly wiping out game herds.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wolf Project Coordinator admits there are 560 wolves and 150 pups this year in the Yellowstone area, with anywhere between 34 to 46 breeding pairs, depending on your definition of breeding pair. The Project Coordinator himself, Ed Bangs, says, “There are too many wolves.”

Wolf reintroduction is now a big business. Defenders of Wildlife alone raises over $16,000,000 a year tax-free. They beg for dollars through mass mailings to urban soccer moms, who are kept in the dark by socialist sycophants in the press. Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado are next to get a good healthy dose of eco-death by wolves.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has amassed a huge bureaucracy originally formed to introduce 78-100 wolves in Yellowstone Park. It’s now expanded its mission to plant wolves into any rural area in America where there is an agricultural or hunting culture. Reintroduction is usually done without the permission of the state or local communities, a violation of various congressional mandates.

An all-star team of 15 scientists with doctorate degrees, specializing in Predator/Prey biology, studied and then published in 1991 “Wolves for Yellowstone? A Report to Congress and the Department of Interior.”

They warned that the 250 square miles in and around Yellowstone could hold 78-100 wolves at full capacity, if it was done over a 10 to 20 year period. No one knew the impact of predators on an unadapted prey species - elk, moose and bighorn sheep. They said that “intensive monitoring of the prey should be done, otherwise the Yellowstone Ecosystem would be forever and irreparably harmed.” (See P. 11 Peterson, Gassaway & Messier report to Department of Interior, dated 9/95).

[ko_kyi]

Interesting post. As a person who enjoys the outdoors, isn't predation to extinction almost unheard of? (rats and dodo birds notwithstanding.) I would think that the number of wolves would depend on the availability of prey, but prey species reproduce and adapt quickly and should end up at a smaller but stable level in a few years.

Have the herds totally lost their self-preservation skills? If so, they should be considered domesticated animals and not wildlife.

[Kenny Bunk]

Sergeant, you are such a black-and-white kinda guy!

There is another, answer you know. Which is why I give $5 every week to a Green Party project that seeks to re-direct wolves' dietary choices. We train them to choose complex carbohydrates ... vegetables ... over that nasty bloody meat, which as you know all too well, can cause high cholesterol, bad breath, and aggressive behaviour.

Why don't you discuss this movement with some of those rough, but probably well-meaning chaps with whom you fish, hunt, and fondle firearms? We are making a difference and when Our Lady of Chappaqua, Hillary, becomes our President, we will have the support we need to go nation-wide.
Won't you join us, and convince others to do so?

[Rebelbase]

I couldn't find the thread I referenced, but this one is along the same lines: Thrown to the Wolves - Wolves are being reintroduced to wildlands to drive people out ^