Posted on 10/10/2022 5:42:17 AM PDT by george76
New wolf depredation incidents are being reported in northern Colorado. First, in Rio Blanco County, just south of Meeker, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed 18 head of 600-pound calves were attacked and killed by wolves
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on the LK Ranch, owned by Lenny and Jackie Klinglesmith. The cattle were up in their summer pasture, when the wolf depredation incidents were discovered. Travis Duncan with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says necropsies on each animal have been performed and it is an active investigation.
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A second Colorado wolf depredation incident was in the past few days in Jackson County, near Pole Mountain, according to Adam VanValkenburg who is the president of the North Park Stockgrowers Association.
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A pack of six black wolves and one gray wolf have been reported in Jackson County, and have been responsible for the deaths of five cows, two dogs, and a calf. Another rancher got a video of the pack crossing Jackson County Road 28 on Sept. 18.
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Adam VanValkenburg and Lenny Klinglesmith were recently at a gathering of nearly two dozen Colorado livestock ranchers and educators in Montana. Routt County Rancher Jo Stanko was there along with Todd Hagenbuch, who is the Agriculture Agent and County Director for the CSU Extension Office in Routt County. They met with Montana ranchers who have been dealing with wolves for 20 years, to learn how best to manage the wolves in Colorado.
VanValkenburg says the Montana ranchers say lethal management best changes a wolf’s behavior. That can be done through hunting, or if a wolf is attacking or harassing livestock.
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wolves are already here, as reported in Jackson and Rio Blanco counties. He says the best thing to do now is to move forward since ranchers have to deal with it.
Colorado ranchers are not allowed to shoot a wolf. If they do, it’s one year in jail, a $100,000 fine, and the loss of hunting privileges for life.
Republican State Senator Bob Rankin said he planned to put forth a bill in the Colorado General Assembly that would introduce an equal number of ( imported, exotic timber Canadian - not native American ) wolves into Boulder, Denver, and .. ( Never did - just words ? ).
Of the state’s 64 counties, just 13 ( and Dominion machines connected to the internet at 3am. ) supported the introduction of wolves on designated lands west of the Continental Divide.
The left think wolves are cute. They kill sheep, calves, baby elk and deer for fun ( Not just for food ) and kill humans .. politicians should not spend tens of millions in a just few years on wolf packs..
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The left hate Kulaks - working, middle class farmers / ranchers who take care of their families. = you will own nothing and be happy.
My neighbor is a prison guard. He keeps about six to eight head of cattle. This is how he plans on sending his children to college. (Engineering. Not gender studies.) We got letters from some university out west informing us that they were adhering to some requirement to get our feedback before releasing wolves as we were near the woods where they’d be. The plan was to establish a self-sustaining breeding colony. The “feedback” was an education about how to react when being faced by “a wolf.” Don’t run, face them down, etc. I wrote back pointing out that if they were successful, it wouldn’t be “a” wolf. It would be a pack. And, what looked like a lot of federal and state forest on the map was interspersed with subdivisions and farms and that for all practical purposes there was no contiguous forest, and those wolves would be running through subdivisions and family farms and picking off children at school bus stops. I enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope and asked them to please respond to our concerns. I never heard from them.
They make great coats, too.
The government is our worst enemy.
I love the wildlife including the beautiful wolves. Had coyotes in our suburban neighborhood for a while. We’d see a couple of them just trotting down the sidewalk. They would do a quick sideways glance over at us and just keep on going. (Wouldn’t want to be caught near a pack of course.)
The greenies in Denver and Boulder wanted them some wolves.
Only released into western Colorado.
Yes.
That is what wolves do in real life. And they will attack them in Hillsborough County, Florida or Dale County, Alabama. This is not a Disney movie.
Release those wolves in Denver and see if they can help with the homeless situation.
Wolves eat some homeless and the homeless eats some wolves. Win, Win
Hopefully the investigation will lead to the arrests of those responsible.
You’re right, about SW PA.
Had a pack of about 15 behind the house.
Heard them take down a deer, one night.
They, supposedly, migrated from Canada and bred with wolves, at some point.
Heard them howling, one night and went out to check, with a pistol.
Just saw eyes, along the top of the hill, then 4 trotted out of the woods and came down the hill about 30 yards away and just stared at me.
Went inside for a rifle and they left.
Sat on the back porch, the next 2 nights and popped one, each night.
A 45 lb 2 year old male and a 55 lb female.
Big for ‘yotes, so the wolf story is probably true.
The pack left for greener pastures.
Tossed them over the hill, then found out there is a bounty for them.
Dang it!
As there should be. Got a link to tell me more?
Nasty cowardly critters that need killin'
“For us they are beautiful animals. Trying to keep all the beautiful animals around is wonderful, but we don’t live with them. We can fly over, stay in a hotel and then take a guided tour to see all the beautiful animals. That’s a first world attitude. Some of those African nations will have a huge population by the end of the century. I suspect there will be very few predators left in the wild. There will be very little wild left in the wild.”
That’s a reasonable/logical sentiment. However, it presupposes that things are going to stay the same, or change but little, geopolitically speaking.
Clearly, these are times of tremendous political, social, economic, cultural, etc., upheaval. I imagine that in 20 years we will be looking at a completely different world, or one that we could scarcely have imagined.
And remember Agenda 21? Its premise is that humanity belongs packed together in urban population centers. (Think Judge Dredd.) The wild may end up becoming even more wild, if more pandemics are in the offing, and that appears to be the case.
If the government wants to have some wolfpacks in Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, and other national parks in the lower 48 states, fine. However, if a wolf leaves the park’s boundaries, it should be considered vermin and dealt with appropriately. Given the healthy wolf populations in Canada and Alaska, the wolf is not close to endangered in North America.
Can’t find whether it was passed by the Senate and signed, though.
Hey. They’re just doing their job to feed their canine family. You do your job of protecting your food supply for your family by shooting them.
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