"[they]...requested immediate assistance from Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek for intervention in removing the wolf"
LOLOL...yeah, they will get a real sympathetic ear from Kotek. She is a Democrat and she runs a progressive agenda with a focus on housing, labor rights, and social equity. She could not care less about ranchers in her state.
"Flynn said the ODFW officials she has spoken to admit that the wolf is a problem and should be removed, but their hands are tied as wolves are federally protected and protected via state statute."
"Our hands are tied." That's the age-old government response when they don't want to do something. You get nothing but excuses from government agents who point to statutes and say "our hands are tied."
I never realized the secondary effects of wolves on cattle: cows get sick from stress, pastures don't get utilized because the cows won’t go to that corner because that’s where the wolves are, poor breed up.
And the non-lethal deterrents! What a joke. Playing AM radio at night, fladry (a rope mounted along the top of a fence, from which are suspended strips of fabric or colored flags, that will flap in a breeze. They are intended to deter wolves from crossing the line), and fox lights (night predator deterrent control light with flashing LEDs). It reminds me of those stupid Norwegian woman doing their "dance" to stop muslim men from raping them.
I suppose there are things worse than being a cattleman losing cows to wolves. You could be a farmer and have the feds blast irrigation and flood control dams to smithereens causing you to lose your water.
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Big city leftists hate family farmers and family ranchers / they think food comes from a box or a can from a store.
Ted Turner, Jane Goodall, Bill Gates.. want to kill billions of people / kulaks that Stalin and Lenin hated for taking care of their families.
WEF Member: 90% Population Reduction Would Solve Globalists’ ‘Problems’. ~anthropologist Jane Goodall,
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-member-90-population-reduction-solve-globalists-problems/