WA wolf meeting Ping!
Think about it.
Past generations got rid of them because....
I don’t know what these wolves look like but the ones I’ve seen in nature parks are pretty pathetic...barely bigger than a coyote. One on one against my lab I’d give it even odds and that’s only because of the wolf’s reputation.
Here’s the end-game:
If wolves control the deer and elk herds, then we don’t need hunters.
With nothing to hunt, what’s the point of the long-rifle?
I was born in Yakima and the family cabins are in the forest North of there. They are far too populated for safe wolf introduction.
Check what’s happened in Wyoming, where they are outcompeting the Griz for food. The bear are emaciated and not producing well.
This crap about giving the earth back to “mother nature”, is an elitist ploy, being used to undermine America, it’s freedoms, it’s industry, and foster population control.
Do you see any of Obama’s policies that don’t fit that mold?
The Feds and the DNR "reintroduced" wolves to Wisc. The effects were predicted and now the DNR is doing the "what problem?" dance. We have our own wolf control program now: Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
Not that I advocate such a thing....
Wolves in numbers are coming to WA state though we don’t have the funds to manage them nor to pay ranchers for losses, go figure.
Do remember that when you are about to change your antifreeze, don’t leave it in open containers. Wolves will drink it, and the state will NOT pay you for the stolen antifreeze.
I like the pretty green color of the classic antifreeze. And, since I don’t want to pay for the “embittered” antifreeze, I don’t buy it.
After all, who cares if the antifreeze is bitter or happy - just as long as it isn’t gay.
;-)
Would some FReeper please find out if the Blankenship is a vet?
If so, he worked on the “Endangered Florida Panther” program. There, a Vet achieved bureaucratic perfection when he signed Blankenship, DVM to a capture report of a female juvenile cougar weighing 60 or 70 pounds. Said female actually was a male, with fully descended testicles, lainly visible.
Perhaps those testicles are why the vet found the cat was “non lactating”.
Should it be the same Blankenship, the elected officials should be notified of his level of bureaucratic performance of his “professional” duties.
Actually that is middle ground. Allowing ranchers to shoot wolves after their livestock is as natural as allowing wolves to feed on elk. It sets up a dynamic that forces the wolves back to their natural prey and discourages them from human interaction. That is in the best interest of both.
It is irritating for a necessarily part-time hunter to have to compete with full-time ones for his share of the elk herd but I don't know a lot of hunters who can't cope. The real difficulty is with romantic ecozealots whose aim is to restore the wolf population to some imaginary level that simply isn't reflected in the natural population dynamics. The packs eat the herd, the herd shrinks, the packs shrink. Not allowing the packs to shrink sets up an impossible situation. And federal laws prohibiting ranchers defending their stock sets up precisely that.
“Conservationists worry that hunters and ranchers will shoot the wolves despite state or federal protections.”
Seen any spotted owls recently? No, you haven’t.
We need these wolves in Massachusetts. We are so overwhelmed with a sickly and overpopulated deer herd bursting with Lyme disease that they need to get a big whack from an apex predator. Our scrawny coyotes just aren’t up to the job.
I have it on reliable authority that an employee of the Fish & Wildlife Dept confirmed off the record that there’s been a gray wolf pack on Mica Peak in the Spokane area for almost a year. I have a less reliable report, though from a usually reliable source, that up to 20 head of cattle were taken down in one night this summer by wolves in a rural area about 15 miles from Mica Peak.