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Wolf attacks on Montana livestock spike in '09
Associated Press ^
| January 14, 2010
Posted on 01/14/2010 4:28:48 PM PST by george76
Gray wolves killed livestock in Montana at the rate of an animal per day in 2009, stirring a backlash against the predators in rural areas and depleting a program that compensates ranchers for their losses.
The sharp increase over 2008 livestock losses...
Such attacks plus elk herd declines blamed on wolves in parts of Montana and neighboring Idaho have renewed calls by many ranchers and hunters to reduce the predator's population.
"... They'll go out and hamstring a bunch of animals just for fun,"
wolves attract particular disdain because of their viciousness many killed animals are left uneaten and because of historic prohibitions against hunting the predators.
About 1,650 wolves roam the Northern Rockies, most of them descended from just 66 animals introduced to the region in the mid-1990s by the federal government.
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Idaho; US: Montana; US: Oregon; US: Washington; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: 2009review; animalrights; ar; g79; graywolves; livestock; sss; wildlife; wolves
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:28:49 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
2
posted on
01/14/2010 4:30:43 PM PST
by
Godzilla
(3-7-77)
To: Godzilla
Shoot, shovel and shut up.That's what I tell my brother in Montana to do. Shoot 'em and leave 'em.
3
posted on
01/14/2010 4:33:23 PM PST
by
Road Warrior ‘04
( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
To: george76
Yet another effect of global warming!
4
posted on
01/14/2010 4:33:48 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: jazusamo; proud_yank; GladesGuru; Myrddin; LucyT; Seadog Bytes; SierraWasp; familyop; rellimpank; ..
Look what happened when the imported Canadian Wolves left Yellowstone park.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:34:18 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Godzilla
Triple S works around here, too. Run my horses and die.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:38:44 PM PST
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: george76
These ranchers own the land? Yes? No?
My understanding is that most of the ranching is done on public lands. That makes the ranchers rights nil.
To: george76
.... many killed animals are left uneaten
But... But...But..ONLY (white)Man kills for the sport of it.
Must bne "Global Warming" turning off the wolves from their nature behavoir....
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:41:04 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
(You only think you are free.....)
To: george76
If the environazis convince another federal judge to put wolves back on the endangered species list for four or five more years we haven’t seen anything yet.
Losing one head of livestock a day to wolves will become two or three or more a day but the environazis will be happy.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:45:50 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: george76
Yes, this is happening mainly still east of where I live, but I have friends that say those wolves are jamming everything up - there’s less elk ever here than I can remember.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:46:01 PM PST
by
Baladas
((ABBHO))
To: george76
“... They’ll go out and hamstring a bunch of animals just for fun,”
And Jews eat babies, too.
To: Born to Conserve
Grazing occurs during the summer months on public land, after grazing fees are assessed by the proper authorities. The Canadian grey Wolf has decimated the elk herds of central Idaho to the point that they will take a full generation to recover, but on the bright side more prairie land can be cleared for crops to feed cattle in the mid west. Convoluted logic went into the introduction campaign for these predators. Supporters of a non-native sub-species being foisted upon an ecosystem need to actually study ecology or simple biology.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:52:10 PM PST
by
T bench
("God wills it." Urban II)
To: george76
Those wolves dont belong there. The yellowstone wolves were around 70 lbs. The feds brought in wolves from the Mckenzie range that max about 140 lbs. this is a different animal
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:52:24 PM PST
by
Luigi Vasellini
(End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Noumenon
***Triple S works around here, too. Run my horses and die.***
Compound 1080 used to work for coyotes till it was by our US government.
“I raise cattle, the wolves eat them.
When I defend myself I am arrested,
because a great man, who is above raising cattle,
would be in need of wolves.”
-modified from a middle age text.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:52:24 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Are my guns loaded? Break in and find out.)
To: george76
Yes. They’re on their way down to us, george76. We only have a few already,...oops...oh, uh, German Shepherds! That’s right! ...feral German Shepherds, that’s all. Er, maybe giant coyotes. That’s it. Seriously, only seen up to a pair at a time so far.
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:56:52 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: george76
Well hell, if it’s cattle getting killed we ought to be outraged and cover this story all over the news like it’s big news, after all, it’s hitting sombodies pocketbook. But pitbulls killing kids, whats the big whoop, kids cost nothing ...
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posted on
01/14/2010 4:57:31 PM PST
by
Scythian
To: chessplayer
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posted on
01/14/2010 5:05:24 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: Born to Conserve
"My understanding is that most of the ranching is done on public lands. That makes the ranchers rights nil."
There won't be many pests after the big government default then.
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posted on
01/14/2010 5:08:03 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: familyop
There were sightings of the Canadian wolves in Blackfoot and Soda Springs last Spring. That brackets an area north and south of where I live. It's just a matter of time before they move west into Pocatello. We have mule deer, elk and moose wandering the valley. The mountain lions have already come down into town to wander around the Idaho State University campus.
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posted on
01/14/2010 5:08:17 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Godzilla
That’s the ticket. I grew up on a ranch, and there were no wolves out here, but if there were, we certainly wouldn’t have put up with them killing cattle neither. They’d have disappeared, guaranteed.
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posted on
01/14/2010 5:09:59 PM PST
by
SoDak
(bitter clinger)
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