Posted on 02/01/2008 7:45:31 PM PST by Bruce 22-250
Warning graphic pictures of animals killed by wolves. Here is the truth with what living with wolves is really like. If you have a weak stomach don't view some very brutal pictures.
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On why sss is necessary :
AVON — Last weekend, Tim Quigley found a calf that had been attacked by a wolf in his pasture, less than a half-mile from his house. When the calf died a few days later, it was the second confirmed wolf kill in 10 days; neighboring rancher Earl Stucky had a calf killed in a pasture less than a quarter mile from his home last week.
State and federal officials approved setting a trap. On Tuesday morning, it held a wolf.
A few hours later, Quigley watched in disbelief as the trap was opened and the wolf was set free.
“That’s pretty damn frustrating for the ranchers,” Quigley said. “The wolves come in, get my calf, we catch it and they turn it loose. Watching it lope across my meadow, knowing it’s going to be back among my cattle — I’m kind of a quiet guy, but this really gets me going.”
Kraig Glazier, a district wildlife supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, empathizes with the frustration that Quigley, Stucky and other ranchers are experiencing. He noted that one recent study showed that for every confirmed calf kill by wolves, there’s anywhere from five to eight unconfirmed kills.
Carolyn Simes, wolf program coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, also shares their frustration.
http://helenair.com/articles/2005/03/16/helena_top/a01031605_02.txt
It’s only gonna get worse...With more wolves mating that means less collars to track so we will see more people taking matters into their own hands while the Gub-a-Mint and States SIT on their’s!
Some wolves know what my .270 sounds like, but next time they will stop hearing things after I aim true instead of over their heads.
About eight or ten years ago, early one morning, I saw a couple of coyotes come right up to the door of the place I worked in north Phoenix near the Deer Valley Airport. Sniffed around a bit, and wandered off again.
[[Some wolves know what my .270 sounds like, ]]
In my opinion, it should be the last thing he ever hears.
The feds have been taken over by the eco-nuts... Remember the “Lynx Survey Seven ? ”
Federal biologists were not trying to block access to national forest land when they sent fake lynx fur to a lab as part of a survey to protect the cats’ habitat, according to investigators and agency heads.
But one group of investigators said the scientists’ behavior showed “bad judgment, an absence of scientific rigor and several troubling policy issues.”
Still, congressional Republicans aren’t accepting the biologists’ explanation that they were simply trying to test the lab.
“That’s like Mohammed Atta saying he was trying to test airline security,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said during a House Resources Committee hearing on the lynx survey.
And Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., who has led the investigation into what he calls the “Lynx Survey Seven,” still wants to know why the employees weren’t punished more severely
“I’m still bewildered that these employees received a bonus and a pay increase,” McInnis said.
The Canada lynx has been deemed threatened in 16 Western states, including Colorado. In 1999, an interagency task force including the Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and state wildlife officials began a survey to figure out where the tuft-eared cats live and how to protect them. In areas where lynx are found, logging and snowmobiling could be banned.
But a handful of biologists working on the survey in national forests in Washington state sent the lab tufts of hair from captive lynx, essentially “planting” samples.
http://www.usconservation.org/lynx/Fur_flies_lynx_march_2002.html
I used to throw left over meat out for the animals. (OK - I know it was wrong - and I haven’t done it for over ten years.) I would walk out with some left-over T-bone steak or prime rib, or chicken (cut into bite sized pieces) and whistle, and then toss.
The coyotes started sleeping in the bushes until they heard the whistle, and then they would appear, like ghosts on a foggy night. When I had company from out of town, I would treat them to the sight of the ‘dogs’ of the desert - and they got some beautiful pictures.
Then, they started following me, when I walked my little yorkie. I realized she would be a ‘toothpick’ for them in a heart-beat, and what I had been doing was terribly wrong. I now throw left-overs into the trash, and have for over a decade.
I used to feed chicken scratch to the javelinas, too - until the ‘daddy’ boar tried to bust his way onto my porch, when he was hungry. Dang. Those wildlife critters have no manners. Didn’t they ever hear the saying, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”? ;-)
George what we need to do is educated everyone we can about the real reason behind the wolves. We have been LIED to from the beginning. Everything the Pro wolf side told us would never happen is. Livestock lost is skyrocketing. The big fairy tale that wolves only kill the sick and the old and then magically become full waitng for another animal to get sick. They are wasting the prey species down to nothing. They increase every year by 34%. The big point is how they count the wolves. If the wolf pack is all un collar that pack is not counted. They do not count single or doubles either it has to be a pack of 3 or more otherwise according to the so call experts they are not counted. Using they own logic wolves are double to three times higher then whatever they state. Because of the big lie on how they count wolves. another great web site is www.wolfcrossing.org
LOL :) :)
No thanks.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put Canadian wolves into Yellowstone Park and created a recovery area 300 miles around the park, then tied all the dollars to Yellowstone and openly admitted they knew that the Canadian wolves would leave.
Oh yes, the Lynx Survey. I remember that well, they sent the samples to the forensics lab in Ashland, OR, lived not far from it in So OR.
They got caught red handed and then tried to say it was a test. That was laughable but the caper was definitely not funny.
This whole wolf lie is really out of hand. Just like the fake lynx hair you posted about. David Mech admitted to planting MN wolves in Michigan which at the time was against the law. Then when we found out about it and raise heck oh oh oh I never said that. There was video taken were one of Feds stated in 1988 the reason the wolves were being brought back was to drive 30,000 ranchers off the land. Then the video disappear and of course the LYING FEDS said on that never happened. My favorite one was Michigan DNR stated that wolves only kill 8-10 deer a year. I found the Alaska study that say 40-50 deer a year per wolf. I wrote the DNR and told them to fired the so called expert that put out that lie. Of course they didn’t fired the state employee for gross incomptence and lying to the public.
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