Posted on 08/14/2006 9:39:49 PM PDT by george76
State wildlife officials take too long to authorize the killing of problem wolves, ranchers and others said Friday at a meeting of the agency oversight committee of the Environmental Quality Council.
"It's like a guy's robbing a bank and you have to go get an arrest warrant,"...
"It doesn't make a lot of sense."
More than 50 people attended the meeting that drew Fish, Wildlife and Parks Director Jeff Hagener, agency biologists and several state legislators.
People from Idaho and Wyoming and members of anti-wolf groups pushing for indiscriminate killing of the predators also attended.
A few members of conservation groups praised FWP for the job it has done since it took over wolf management from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last year.
However, the majority complained that FWP's reluctance to decide to kill a wolf has let too many problem animals get away.
Others say the state has at times made it difficult for federal trappers to kill wolves on state land.
Shockley said when ranchers were dealing directly with federal officials, problem wolves could be taken care of quickly. But since the state has taken over, things take too long.
"It was working. Why didn't we just leave it the way it was?" he asked.
"Fish, Wildlife and Parks has forfeited their right to manage these predators," said Bob Fanning, president of Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, an anti-wolf group. "We need this in order to get this out-of-control bureaucratic nightmare under control."
FWP wants to see wolves delisted so it can begin to use hunting and trapping to manage the population, Hagener said.
The agency has been frustrated by the federal government's unwillingness to delist wolves in Montana and Idaho, where management plans have been accepted, because Wyoming's management plan has been rejected.
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Well need some wolves to take down those Woolly Mammoths
that they are going to make from frozen sperm!
When can we get our mammoth steaks ?
I treasure the SSS!
Shoot Shovel Shutup
Seriously, how can something at the top of the food chain be on a protected list!? Like cougars. Ugh!
A San Francisco Slurpee.
Good one. Best laugh I've had all day.
Wooly mammoths in Montana? Not likely. They wouldn't survive the winter. They need a tropical climate like any other elephant. But those man eating snaggle toothed tigers would probably do well.
Works for me.
"It's like a guy's robbing a bank and you have to go get an arrest warrant,"...
Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
The liberals want to kick out the working ranchers and turn these family ranches into wolf recovery zones.
This could work if the family ranchers lose their livestock to the wolves , bears, and... The family ranchers need the livestock to help pay off the bank loans.
When the family goes broke, sells out, or walks away, then Ted Turner and friends can buy the land cheap for another Hollywood lodge.
Duh! Because it WAS working!
This is one of the most biased delibertately misleading articles I've read in a long time.
Here are some examples:
"People from Idaho and Wyoming and members of anti-wolf groups pushing for indiscriminate killing of the predators also attended."
Oh I see, these aren't just ranchers worried about their livestock, they're ANTI-WOLF . . . and they don't want to just protect their livelihood, they want INDISCRIMINANT killing.
"Fish, Wildlife and Parks has forfeited their right to manage these predators," said Bob Fanning, president of Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, an anti-wolf group. "
ANT-WOLF group.
"FWP wants to see wolves delisted so it can begin to use hunting and trapping to manage the population, Hagener said. "
Ooooh evil, hunting and trapping. Guess this reporter has no clue that there's no way these will be hunted, even if delisted evil hunters.
I can always see through these articles written like this.
Thanks.
I often wonder why some of these media people even bother to attend these meetings.
They write stuff that did not happen and leave out the important things that did happen.
Unfortunately many media members are easily used by those with an agenda.
This reporter probably took those comments right off the Defenders of Wildlfie news release. That's pretty evident with that dumb statement about those evil "anti-wolf" people hoping these wolves can be "trapped and hunted."
The best way to conserve the wolf population is to allow legal hunting of wolves.
I'd pay 200.00 or more for a wolf tag for the opportuniy to pop one each year. This money could go to reimbuse the rancher whose losing animals
I agree. I am pro hunting as it gets. Here in Tennessee, when the newly reintoduced elk causes a farmer problems, the state (and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation) either dispose of the elk, relocate it or reimburse the farmer for damages.
bttt
Bob Fanning, Montana
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