Michigan Tech University/Keweenaw Ping
Posted on 03/11/2006 11:00:51 AM PST by george76
To the enviros it is called murder, and I'm sure would invoke the death penalty for that if they could.
FWS counted over a thousand wolves this year in the 3 state region where they introduced wolves. Every year they miss a few packs on top of that. However delisting is a very long way off becaue thsoe of us living with them "can't be trusted" to maintain them.
No that is not quite right, there are some foreigners that pay big bucks to fly to Yellowstoen every year to "gaze into their eyes". Wolf lovers have virtually destroyed the vegetation on one hill as they all trek up the side to watch the wolves and hope to see them kill something.
Those wolves are protected by the ESA and only FWS can kill them.
Enviros insist that they will not kill all of their prey, although the fact is they did wipe out the deer population there years ago, and it never came back.
They have impacted the Northern Yellowsotne elk herd tremendously, they have dropped from 19,000 to less than 9000, but wh is counting, certainly not FWS this year. Instead of a count in January this year they reported a "study" that showed the herd would have dropped to that level without the wolves. (Computers are wonderful, you can make them say anything you want them to.)
I agree, make a that out of them!
Call me an isolationist but I say let the wolves work it out among themselves. From this article, it seems they have a perfectly workable "solution" in mind.
Actually there is at least one recorded case of the early mountain men eating a wolf when ther was no game.
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