Posted on 02/28/2010 11:57:50 PM PST by OneVike
Go to http://www.lobowatch.com/WolvesNearYou.html to read the full story of this adult mountain lion killed by wolves in Idaho. The wrecking ball is out and wiping out everything in its path. Time to wake up to what uncontrolled wolf populations are doing in the lower 48 people.
Ear Tag identifies Lion as an adult relocated by Idaho Fish and Game earlier in the year.
Look in the background and you will see the residential community of Parker Idaho. Only 1/4 mile from the cougar kill site.
Audience members at a meeting called by Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich saw many pictures of wildlife in the city, including this cougar that was killed by wolves. Willich is concerned about predators within city limits.(ARIEL HANSEN/Times-News)
SUN VALLEY — A large audience Wednesday heard Sun Valley Mayor Wayne Willich do some howling about community concerns of wildlife within city limits.
Willich called for the Wood River Elk Trust II to quickly come up with a plan to feed elk on a ridge above the Elkhorn neighborhood of Sun Valley next winter, hoping they won’t then attract predators into the city.
The elk have not been fed by an organized group in three years, and last year wolves hunted them as they wandered through town. The wolves have not been present in the city this winter, which is attributed to the wolf hunting season launched last year.
Following a self-described “lecture” about the wildlife situation in Sun Valley, Willich took questions, but refused to take comments, on his proposal to have the elk trust present its plan to the Sun Valley City Council in two weeks.
“I’m finished with these town hall meetings, we’re moving to a solution,” Willich said. “The time for discussion is over.”
He said if the elk trust can’t resume feeding, or if the council fails to approve a resolution in support of their feeding, he will demand that Idaho Department of Fish and Game be more proactive. Several Fish and Game agents were in the audience.
“We’ll put you on notice that whenever there’s a predator around, you need to use whatever techniques to get the predators out of town,” Willich said, calling Sun Valley a “no-predator zone.”
Fish and Game Regional Supervisor Jerome Hansen said that’s already the department’s policy.
“We’ve got a document specifically developed to deal with urban large-animal conflicts. This is all about public safety,” he said. “Our guys are Johnny-on-the-spot.”
The department’s policy is to avoid feeding programs whenever possible, although they maintain feeding sites in other areas of the state, including nearby Warm Springs.
“Their plan to start up a feeding program (in Elkhorn) is an easy short-term solution, maybe, but I don’t think it’s the long-term solution,” Hansen said. “It takes a while (for the elk) to develop new patterns. It takes longer than we’ve had.”
He said he would prefer to find other solutions to keep the elk out of town, such as reducing the size of the herd and enhancing habitat in areas to attract the elk to areas not as close to homes, such as Parker and Independence gulches.
Willich said the City Council will take comments on March 11 on the elk trust’s plan. He said the council would likely offer moral, not monetary, support for a feeding plan.
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“Moreover, examining records of the last 50 years the researchers could only find cases of 17 people killed in Europe and Russia and none in North America.”
Could that be because up until recently there have been very few wolves running around free?
Wolves don’t always eat what they kill and sometimes they eat before they kill.
The cougar was competition for the wolves. Anything else is speculation.
“Release the wolves in San Francisco and other liberal havens - they too were once wolf habitat.”
Sun valley is also a liberal habitat - look on this as a test case: can self-disarmed liberals protect themselves from hungry wolf packs by relying on the liberal infested DNR to provide a timely response?
“A rancher killed one and hung it on a telephone with a sign that said “Ranchers 1, Wolves 0”.
It didn’t take long for that score to change drastically.”
That sort of reads like the next sign was put up by the wolves reading Ranchers 1, Wolves 10.
Ping.
We’ll just fence-up more, until enough gapers have been consumed to change some attitudes.
“Wolves serve an important role...”
So do coyotes... who are already stalking people.
Hey, let’s add another preditor to the list - so the lefty bike riders and hikers now not only have to worry about being taken down by bears, mt. lions, and coyotes, but wolves as well.
This is great news for the lefties who believe guns kill people and only cops should be allowed to carry. Sounds like unarmed biking and hiking will soon become a lefty right of passage...
“Gators are on the endangerred list even though there are millions throughout the south.”
We has the same situation with eagles in the PNW, to which situation we said: there weren’t any... Those hundreds of black and white feathered flying things are just over grown vultures not eagles...
I think you missed the point. If the wolves are killing pumas, there’s nothing stopping them. They’re gonna wipe out everything. That’s what is being implied.
I like the one where the back to nature city lefties went howling for wolves —— hahahahah.
Note of course the people who did survive wolf attacks in recent times saved themselves using an evil gun.
They should have called 911 or the Game Dept if they had a problem and wait for the appopriate and timely government response, rather than take the law in their own hands... :)
“There aren’t many, if any conservatives on my part of the Rockies (Colorado).”
Wolves are plentiful in Canada.
“Even at least most of the Republicans lean to the left on issues of nature.”
Which is the problem - while they may be conservative, they still have no idea what nature is all about - city life will do that to people.
“Considering their earth-worshipping inclinations and sources of income, we need longer winters and a real economic crash.”
Sounds like a situation were wolves will have some prime feeding.
I believe in live and let die. SSS...If a wild animal threatens my livestock or my family.
I did too, as well as a rope in the background.....I know a gal in Nebraska who learned how to trap coyotes the way the native Indians did by using a rope snare....
Just a thought......
Thats not rope, its the intestines of the cougar.
Wolves are definitely a problem for those folks out there.
With that being said, I don't believe wolves killed this cat. Very little blood on the ground, no visible fight scars especially at the neck which would have been required to kill it in this case, and no evidence of it being eaten, especially by a number of wolves. And whats up with the rope?
My guess is that the cat may have been gut shot at some point and eventually died where it was photographed.......
It helps to click on the link.
“The F&G officers stopped by today to tell me about the cougar autopsy. The wolves had mauled it on the back, rump, and they believe the kill bite was on the windpipe-neck area. The stomach ripping was after it was down.”
Thats what I thought too and you could be right. If so, then I defer to my idea that this may have been a gut shot animal that eventually died.
It would have taken several wolves and one hell of a fight to kill this cat and there just isn't any evidence of such a battle on it...........
The Circle of Life....
Read the article, apparently the local wildlife people agree its a wolf kill.
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