Montana's governor encourages ranchers to kill wolves

LaLa Times ^ | Feb 6, 2011 | Staff

[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."

[ColdOne]

This is good news. People just do not know how destructive these wolves are. They kill for sport.

[cracker45]

Military base in Alaska having problems with overly bold wolves:

http://www.adn.com/2011/02/01/1679098/officials-trying-to-eliminate.html

[mthip]

You need to remember this is the same Governor who just misappropriated funds from a fund set up to clean up mining waste on the Clark Fork river, to buy the Dog Creek ranch ( which has never been mined and is 2 miles away from the Clark Fork River ) from his friend so his friend could make an 8 million dollar profit from the sale. Thus paying twice what the property was worth so his friend could make money.

[NVDave]

Yea, I know.

The good-ol’-boy network looms large in the Rocky Mountain States, and invariably their corruption is about land and water deals.