Officials say gray wolves could cross into Oregon from Idaho by spring

Oregonian ^ | 12/5/01 | Associated Press

[B Knotts]

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you to endanger your pets, livestock and children!

[B Knotts]

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[Dagny&Hank]

Migration of gray wolves into neighboring states is a good development. I look forward to seeing and encountering them from Maine to Georgia to the San Bernadinos to the Cascades. Same for cougars, aka catamounts, aka mountain lions.

[B Knotts]

FYI BUMP

[RadicalRik]

Can't we re-introduce lions, tigers, mountain lions, grizzly bears and great-big-wolves back into Washington, Oregon and California?

[rollin]

Me dumb as an ox!

Could someone with more knowledge, please prove that the reintroduction of the wolf is beneficial to homosapiens?

Rather than someone's conjecture and opinion that the environmental community is advocating.

[B Knotts]

For some reason, I can't get too enthused about my goats being killed by one.

[rollin]

And are you not forgetting Central Park and Battery Park in New York City?

And how about the parks in San Francisco near the Sierra Club headquarters?

[B Knotts]

BTW, we already have tons of cougars in Oregon. So much so that they're crusing around nonchalantly in some urban/suburban areas. It's only a matter of time before one eats someone's child. Sadly, that's what it will take before hunters are allowed to hunt them with dogs again.

[RadicalRik]

Oh Yeah! Those too!

[FreedomFarmer]

This is great news! Spring pelts are always worth more.

[B Knotts]

I think they (and some cougars and grizzlies) need to be reintroduced in downtown Eugene, Portland and Seattle.

[Dagny&Hank]

Anybody dumb enough not to watch out for themselves should be eaten. As to those critters eating goats and other livestock, that's the risks of using open range. I'd trade less goats and calves and thus higher meat prices for having those predators in the wild. Maybe they'll thin out some of the sheeple too.

[B Knotts]

Anybody dumb enough not to watch out for themselves should be eaten.

Hey, everybody...look here! A real, live people-hating envirowacko!

So, if children are eaten, it's A-OK with you? Because they are "dumb enough not to watch out for themselves" while in their back yard?

[B Knotts]

BTW, my goats are not on "open range." I will take every step possible to keep the wolves out of my property, but fencing is only so effective.

[AnalogReigns]

The 3 "S" words important to Oregon (or Idaho) ranchers regarding wolves...:

Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

[exnavy]

EnvironMENTAL stupidity.

[Jefferson Adams]

While I truly do like wolves - and they're not usually dangerous to children (or humans in general) - it's not for nothing that we have the three "S"s in the West - shoot, shovel and shutup. It's a pity, but the envirowackos have pushed their agenda so hard that most farmers, etc., will just do the three "S"s rather than try to deal with "endangered species" on their lands. I don't blame them a bit. If they don't, their land gets confiscated or they're told they can't use it.

[B Knotts]

Keywords apparently aren't displayed anymore, but I did put "THREE Ss" in there for this article. :-)