Posted on 02/16/2011 9:13:32 PM PST by ForGod'sSake
BILLINGS, Mont. — Defying federal authority over gray wolves, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Wednesday encouraged ranchers to kill wolves that prey on their livestock -- even in areas where that is not currently allowed -- and said the state would start shooting packs that hurt elk herds.
Schweitzer told the Associated Press he no longer would wait for federal officials to resolve the tangle of lawsuits over wolves, which has kept the animals on the endangered species list for a decade since recovery goals were first met.
"We will take action in Montana on our own," he said. "We've had it with Washington, D.C., with Congress just yipping about it, with [the Department of the] Interior just vacillating about it."
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Really nice fur coats.
That's because the AKC hasn't listed them, and made sure the intellegence was bred out of them.
“even in areas where that is not currently allowed — and said the state would start shooting packs that hurt elk herds.”
How dare they try to survive. Who the hell gave wolves the right to exist? Wipe out every effing animal on this planet.
“The DNR protects wolves in WI. Only one question: What do wolves contribute to the human race?”
Oh, wonderful. If something does`nt “contribute” something to the all-mighty human race, wipe it out. I`m sure God would approve of your views. sarc/ What the hell has the human race ever contributed to the planet.
re: Western Dems vs. Republicans
My wife was telling me that Butch Otter reversed himself on the wolf matter, or at least backed off a bit.
For the life of me I can’t remember that (which at my age concerns me some!).
I’ll google it but remind me if you’re on the boards and have a moment today.
But you are entirely right as regards political courage generally.
Republicans are forever backing into and apologizing before and after the decisions they make. Look at them begging and wheedling about cutting the budget in D.C. while Obama smirks and preens about running the country off a cliff.
Obviously the press is a problem. Rush yesterday played a montage of the same old vicious stalinists attacking Newt and the boys back in ‘95-—”killing women, starving children, Klansmen, Nazis.” I am not exaggerating: that old black pusbag John Lewis bellowed at Newt: “You guys used to wear white sheets!” And another old woolly-headed scumbag said: “I fought you guys back in WWII!”
If you were around then, as I was, the press didn’t chastise them, it egged them on. And it is doing it again now.
But that is ever the case. Screw the press. We will deal with them later. I will say this much: I have grave reservations about Chris Christie but the one thing he has done (he did it again yesterday in an appearance in Washington) is set the example of how to deal with these people and these situations: You lay out your positions, you present them strongly, and if voices are raised, by God, you make sure yours is the loudest in the room.
You act like a man.
p.s. Thanks for your astute post.
Wow...I’m liking Montana more and more every day! I need to move there!! Where’s the “employment want ads”?
However, I read recently that mad cow type disease has been found in the US elk population. Perhaps wolves will be able to kill off the diseased specimens and keep them for being eaten by us or infecting the deer population. East of the Mississippi, we are afraid of that disease being introduced into our game animals.
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If true wouldn’t the wolves themselves be infected by the chronic waisting disease and end up killing off there own ,
I don’t know about feeding the PETA freaks to the wolves, but I think you could do just as much damage by force feeding the wolves to the PETA freaks.
Figures.
Yes, the wolves eating the diseased animals might get it, I am not sure their offspring would have it if they did not eat an infected animal. At any rate, and sick elk or deer that they eat is one that humans will not eat. SOunds like a win win to me. Since we don’t eat wolves, we would be safe.
Thanks. I suppose we could add to that many of these wolves have spent some time around humans. From capturing, to sequestering, feeding and handling before re-release back into the wild would no doubt skew their instincts to see humans as less threatening. Wild animals with little fear of humans is NOT a good thing eh?
Tell me that when rats and other vermin infest your home/property.
Wolfs and coyotes favorite foods are rodents and they were here long before we were.
Wolfs and coyotes favorite foods are rodents and they were here long before we were.
These Canadian grey wolves were not in the lower 48 when Lewis & Clark first came west, and were not here in the intervening two centuries, until the commie environmentalists started introducing them in the 1990s.
These grey wolves are twice the size of the timber wolves that were previously in the rockies of the lower 48. The timber wolves hunted in pairs (that's "two" or "2", for you Texas folk), and even then their hunting was devastating to livestock.
These grey wolves are twice the size, and hunt in packs of eight or more, and one pack was photographed in Oregon with more than twenty together, chasing down and ripping apart an elk herd.
People have been killing coyotes (and the timber wolves) for the past 150 years in the west, and there has been no shortage of coyotes, and no such explosion of the rat population.
“Wild animals with little fear of humans is NOT a good thing eh?”
Right you are! Even Gray Squirrels can give a nasty bite, “too friendly” Raccoons and Coyotes may carry rabies and western Ground Squirrels may be infested with fleas carrying the plague (at least here in central CA).
JC
“Since we don’t eat wolves, we would be safe.”
I read somewhere, mebbe six months ago, that Wolf scat from these packs can carry internal parasites that are deadly to domestic dogs. Since they are also extremely territorial with regard to ALL other canids, they readily attack and dismember any dogs they find, sometimes in the vicinity of humans...happened to a hunter in NW Montana some months ago.
JC
“What the hell has the human race ever contributed to the planet.”
Makes me wonder why you are hanging around on this planet just consuming resources, eh? heh heh
JC
“David Letterman owns a large ranch in Montana West of Great Falls somewhere.”
On the Rocky Mountain Front near Choteau, MT.
JC
Thanks ForGod’sSake.
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