the northern Yellowstone elk herd shows a 24 percent decrease in just one year.
Thanks George.
Molloy is a fool and a thug, as you no doubt know.
He’s planning on assuming something like emeritus status, whereby his workload is lightened but he is still able to wreak havoc as he sees fit, and this latest wolf dictum is probably his attempt to enshrine his name in the Eco-
Terror Hall of Fame once and for all.
Good news is congressional Republicans in Idaho and Montana are sponsoring bills to address the wolf status and hunting season status legislatively.
Montana’s Rep. Rehberg has offered a bill that delists the wolf from endangered status and, if I understand it right, reverts the management authority to the states, not the g—d— EPA.
At the least it will force Montana’s punk butt-licking Democrat senators to face the music: Support the delisting or vote against it and lose their jobs.
Well, we live with wolves all around us (I’m in the Alaskan Bush about 280 miles west of Fairbanks). I’m not going to be very popular saying this, but the decrease in elk and other large herbivores is probably a move towards a more natural number. Yes, of course you’ll get a ton of elk and deer once you remove all the predators. If you got rid of the cougars and bears, you’d be swimming in elk.
On other hand, I’ve seen what happens to the forest back east once you remove all the predators and let the deer population explode. The forest is eaten, literally, from the ground to the highest point that the deer can reach; there are no longer seedlings or underbrush; and the deer are like rats with hooves, and scrawny looking as well. Sure, that could be solved with lots of hunters culling the herd, but it’s not happening that way.
I’d say put a limited season on wolves to make them wary of humans, but keep enough to have some kind of impact on the elk and deer, too. Our wolves haven’t kept me from filling my freezer with moose every year. Sorry to be unpopular.