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Posted on 09/07/2024 6:10:08 PM PDT by Libloather
An endangered predator has returned to California after vanishing more than 100 years ago.
At least 44 gray wolves have been spotted in the West Coast state, including a record-breaking 30 new pups this year alone, according to Axel Hunnicutt, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's gray wolf coordinator.
This is the biggest increase in a century, with the animals from seven different packs now in nine of the state's 58 counties, Marin Independent Journal reported.
But not everyone is happy about the return of the the gray wolf and are concerned about the risk to farmers' livestock.
Janna Gliatto, a manager at Table Rock Ranch in Monatgue, told SF Gate: 'Our hands are tied. We've been invaded'.
Gliatto explained how her livestock have been attacked by wolves but can't do anything about it.
The State Endangered Species Act dictates that a gray wolf can only be killed if it is threatening a human.
Rick Roberti, a cattle rancher in Plumas County, said one of his calves was killed by a wolf a quarter-mile from his house and that he has also been left with no recourse.
'It’s adding a lot of stress,' he told The Journal. 'Wolves chase the cattle. They stress them out. It gets frantic. They will run them for miles. The cattle stampede through fences.
'The wolf is going to spread throughout California. There’s nothing to stop it. They are going to move, and I think it’s going to be a crisis. We’re not set up for it.'
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Shoot, shovel, shutup! They should be treated the same as Cayotes.
It is the California way! In the future California will be overrun with wolves as they now are with mountain lions after banning the hunting of such several years ago!
Yes, we are overrun with mountain lions, a Lt. with Calif Fish & Wildlife told me years ago that there are many more mountain lions in Calif than the biologists admit to. Now wolves, and there is talk of reintroducing Grizzly Bears too. Should be interesting for High Sierra hikers on the John Muir Trail.
Just teach them to eat illegals.
If a Grey wolf is killed at an illegal cartel pot grow, nothing will be done.
-PJ
So they vanished 100 years ago but we still have a Department of Fish and Wildlife’s gray wolf coordinator?
Very recent: “Colorado’s only wolf pack produced by released wolves is being removed from its Grand County location due to its repeated killing of livestock.”
Who could have known?!
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