Posted on 12/04/2017 4:08:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
That's what we used to hear in Washington state. We moved to northern Michigan. Now we get offers from the neighbors to bury them, or we stop to talk to hunters we see out tracking them - it's a rural area - everyone here waves or stops to talk. We have no strangers.
Wolves and coyote provide absolutely nothing to the environment here except to kill everything else off so that the only wildlife left is them. Sometimes a wolf is found shot on the UP and the radio will runs ads asking people who know anything to come forward. That's pretty amusing!
This is a very outdated idea that is difficult to dislodge.
The staying power of this idea became clear when she asked students in her introduction to ecology course, "Do you think a predator could ever drive a prey species to extinction?" "They uniformly answer no — even though it does happen all the time," she said.
Thus the declared extinction of what was once an enormous elk herd at Yellowstone, a few caribou herds in BC, etc, ALL DUE TO WOLF INTRODUCTION.
The left is killing off the herds with giant aggressive wolves brought down from Alberta. This is part and parcel of agenda 21. Hope this education attempt helps you to see through the haze.
See my post above please.
Yep, if we don’t like a person a coyote
or pole cat is the proper name to call
them.
Coyotes, previously thought of as desert animals, now range all the way to New Hampshire and Maine.
The ecological niche previously occupied by wolves is being filled by coyotes.
Humans opened up that niche.
good points and I agree.................
.........here’s a few arguments in favor of the coyote!
http://www.coyotelivesinmaine.com/coyote/coyote-influence-in-ecosystem/
As the post details, people just cannot seem to get that and accept it. Even though it has been proven to be true.
Species have gone extinct from predators. Coyote and wolves add not one thing to any environment. Unless you count disease.
Predators are in fact tools of the left ecomovement to empty the west of humans. It is difficult to understand how urban freepers are so behind the rest of us in getting this. Light years.
here is another....
In about 1995 I was in Idaho on a job, they had just introduced the first 4 wolves into the state. Someone shot one of them and strung it up on a fence with a sign that read “Ranchers: 1 - Wolves:0”
I think they introduced about another 8 or so. The wolf population in Idaho was over 780 in 2016. About 340 were killed during the year - they do allow limited hunting, and getting rid of ones that kill livestock. Last year about 150 sheep were killed, four dogs and a horse by wolves.
Snoqualmie, not so much. Spent 25 or so years living in parts of western Wa.
I’m in the suburbs of Seattle and we have coyotes. They banned “gripping” traps about 10 years ago (including for moles!!!) in the state. I imagine that had some impact on the increase in the number of coyotes. Although the increase in encounters is probably mostly due to the new homes being built on the fringes so folks can be out in the “country” more. (And then they complain about coyotes, cougars and bears, smells from the farms, etc.)
My sister’s in-laws have a large (well, large by western North Carolina standards) farm, they raise several head of Charolais. A sole Rottie has the run of it, he chases off the coyotes. Brave, sweet dog, great with people, but he knows his job and does it well. I fear for him, they’re going to gang up on him one day.
So, is it you contention that wiping out the coyote and wolf population completely would be a GOOD thing and that NO negative impact would accrue to the ecosystem?
Actually even if I were to agree with your leftist natural balance crap then wiping them out completely would also result in balance. But yes. Predators like grizzlies, wolves, coyotes add absolutely nothing to the landscape.
And the planet would thrive without them. To believe otherwise is to admit you have drunk the Sierra Club koolaid and support agenda 21.
LOL, I have about as much relativity to the Sierra Club as a KKK Grand Dragon has applying for a job at the ACLU.
That said, I can see you’ve been on some Kool Aid of some kind yourself so I will let it go at that.
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