Posted on 10/10/2015 11:13:51 AM PDT by george76
A U.S. judge on Friday approved a deal between conservationists and Montana officials to restrict road-building and logging in roughly 22,000 acres of state forest lands that make up core habitat for federally protected grizzlies.
The agreement resolves a lawsuit brought by conservationists after the state had sought to open 37,000 acres , mostly in the Stillwater State Forest, to timber harvesting despite what environmentalists said would be the destruction of prime grizzly bear territory.
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U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy in a decision last year found the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by issuing a permit to Montana for the project opening up the expanse to the timber industry.
Montana appealed the judge's ruling and conservation groups later appealed separate parts of the decision, leading to a stalemate that set the stage for both sides to hammer out a settlement.
Molloy approved the agreement on Friday, said attorney Tim Preso of the firm Earthjustice
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The settlement comes after a federal-state panel managing grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, mostly in Wyoming, said a separate population of about 700 bears has recovered and recommended they be stripped of federal protections.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to make a decision on delisting soon.
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Only thing is the ungulates are not always going to starve. Check out Isle Royale, the balanced nature worshipper crowd’s failure. 1200 moose having a great life. Only 3 wolves left. Ha ha.
I love that place and hope to get up there next spring.
Oh and that was 50 years of study on our tax dollars BTW.
Biggest predator for a wolf? Parvo. I am seriously pondering that.
Same as the empty corridor between your elf ears.
Same as the empty corridor between your elf ears.
UN Agenda 21 is a direct assault on private property rights and American sovereignty, and it is coming to a neighborhood near you.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/10/un_agenda_21_coming_to_a_neigh.html
This guy is exactly right. There were 20,000 elk in the Northern Yellowstone herd, most of which summer in the park and wintered in the vast mountain terrain to the north of the park.
Now the herd is at just a couple thousand and is said to be beyond recovery.
It is a shame, a tragedy and a crime.
I have eaten elk and am OK with buck hunting but little infuriates me as much as the fact that 80 or more percent of the calves are eaten alive before one year of age. By the very predators I detest so strongly.
The great elk herds of the west are gone for the most part. The so-called animal lovers on the left cheer on the incredible suffering of elk calves.
Hypocritical scum.
Fortunately I saw lots of great elk herd activity on the coast where we had our beach house. Check out you tube for video of the Pendleton elk
swimming the Columbia river near Astoria, Oregon.
Now that we are in upnorth Michigan I can go to Gaylord where they have a
small herd protected in enclosure in the city!!! Just up there last week listening to them bugle in rut. There may be no more beautiful sound on the planet.
My husband who grew up in Montana scoffs because they are enclosed but it’s not that small. You often have to look to find an elk.
Bring your grandchildren. Gaylord is a great city - friendly people, alpine decor on main street, awesome food. Elk visits are free and divinely
enjoyable. Even the occasional liberal here is probably carrying so it is safe too.
The left sells the myth that the wolves only kill to eat and only prey on the eldest and sickly animals. No.
They chase the pregnant cows to exhaustion, rip out the fetus for a snack, and kill the calves.
The remaining herds, I have read, in the west are geriatric.
Oregon is trying to delist these killing machine monsters. Let us hope a hunt can be in their future too.
Starting in 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 31 Canadian wolves in Yellowstone National Park. At that time, Yellowstone’s northern elk herd was between 19,000 and 20,000 elk.
Due to the escalated depredation by ever growing wolf numbers, Yellowstone’s once wondrous northern elk herd had dwindled to around 4,400 animals by 2011. Likewise, once thriving populations of deer, moose, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats have also suffered a serious down turn .
In the western mountains of Montana, there has been near “0” calf elk survival for several years now, due to wolf depredation, and elk numbers are dropping like a rock.
One troubling impact wolves are making are the documented occurrences of wolves killing for the mere pleasure of killing. In one instance alone, a small group of wolves in Montana went on a killing spree, and in one night killed 130 domestic sheep - without eating anything. And they are doing the same thing with deer and elk.
http://www.lobowatch.org/adminclient/WolfWar2/go
Sorry - you are right - this would only not allow new building of roads. Although I imagine that trying to make it sustainable bear habitat they would not be opposed to closing roads.
From an earlier thread:
“....the mileage of road closures on U.S. Forest Service (USFS) land in Montana balloons to 21,951 miles.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3347131/posts
Canadian wolves” released into the Northern Rockies are carriers of a deadly parasite - the Echinocossosis granulosus tapeworm. Wolves are the primary carrier of this tapeworm, which was not found in the Northern Rockies until the release of the wolves transplanted from northern Canada. Now, more than 60- percent of the wolves examined in Idaho and Montana have been carriers of the parasite - the eggs of which are the cause of hydatid disease.
In humans, hydatid disease can cause cysts in the lungs, on the liver and on the brain, and unless those on the brain are surgically removed, the disease can be fatal to humans as well. Wolves also carry, spread and transmit more than 30 other diseases, many of which are infectious to humans, pets, other wildlife and livestock.
Organizations like the Defenders of Wildlife, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Sierra club, and a dozen others, have prevented state wildlife agencies from effectively managing wolf numbers in balance with acceptable depredation levels. Now, with wolf populations running more than 500% greater than the recovery goals outlined in the Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Plan and the 1994 Environmental Impact Statement filed by USFWS
http://www.lobowatch.org/adminclient/WolfWar2/go
I love Lobowatch.
My husband said he grew up in that corridor and he knows many people who live there. None of whom would appreciate your wanting them to relocate in order to create a habitat for grizzlies.
Ha ha, thanks for that. Her post reeked of social engineering and habitat over humans.
That American Thinker writing is well done. I tried to follow the links to scout out local threats but so far, not much luck.
Been hunting north of the park for nearly 25 years.
What has happened in the last several years is an atrocity.
Predator control of wolves and bears helps the ungulates — elk, deer, antelope, moose, caribou, bison, etc. and the rural families who rely on hunting to survive .
Predators go after the babies first: .. Moose mother fights tooth and nail to save newborn from killer’s clutches . These incredible pictures show the scene as a titanic life-and-death battle unfolded between a mother moose defending her calf and a pack of wolves.
But the baby gets killed anyway? These are hard for me to see..that’s why I am asking.
Yes.
I do not believe you, or you would have mentioned it to begin with.
Those alleged relatives would be happy to move for one billion dollars each.
Grizzly bears eat bambi on a daily basis. Deer are rats on stilts.
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