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Posted on 12/21/2023 6:37:56 AM PST by george76
Republican State Senator Bob Rankin said that he planned to put forth a bill in the Colorado General Assembly that would introduce an equal number of imported, not native Canadian wolves into Boulder and Jefferson Counties as Proposition 114 will into Moffat County.
I do intend to do that, saidRankin.. Then he resigned .
Of the state’s 64 counties, just 13 supported wolves on designated lands west of the Continental Divide..
I hope they released them in the neighborhoods of the Colorado SC.
Can we train them to hunt Ivy League judges and release them in Denver. Maybe the 4-3 “insurrection” decision can be revoted as 2-3.
Wish they would have released them at the Justice Center chambers, downtown.
Lot’s of uninhabited wide open space in Colorado. Also, lots of skilled marksman!😎
What are you? There are lots of options and based on your comment none good come to mind.
There are all sorts of things that are “natural” that are at odds with human existence and therefore need to be managed. Viruses are “natural”, forest fires are “natural”, a whole slew of poisons are “natural”, king cobras and Bengal tigers are “natural”, lightning is “natural”, floods are “natural”, weeds are “natural”, toxic mold is “natural”, and the number one killer creature on Earth, the mosquito, is “natural.”
God didn’t direct Adam and Eve to “preserve” the Earth, He told them to “subdue” it. The Earth and its resources are here to serve humans, not to exist without them, as radical environmentalists fantasize about. We need to manage those resources responsibly, of course, but if humans did not exist, the state of the Earth would not matter at all.
As for your cattle example, they exist solely to provide food (and some byproducts) for humans. They serve no other purpose. It’s not like we’re going to release Bessie into the wild to “be free.”
I understand why ranchers don’t like wolves. What I don’t understand is why we don’t just reimburse them for their loses. Wolves don’t have to be a zero sum game. If we want to bring them back it should not be at the expense of ranchers.
One that’s vegan, I guess
As I understand it, ranchers can get compensated for losses due to wolves, but I’ve also heard that the government tends to A. Deny the claims “prove that a wolf did it” B. Underpay the claims C. Missing cattle (calves especially) are assumed to just have gotten lost so no pay D. Pay very slowly. I have no personal experience- just going by what I read and what know of bureaucracies.
And one other point. Any compensation paid to ranchers comes from the taxpayers ie. in part from the ranchers themselves as well as the rest of us who don’t give a rat’s ass about wolves and think it’s a terrible idea to propagate them again.
What I’d really like to see is a wolf reintroduction bond where wolf enthusiasts have to put up a cash bond say $250,000 per wolf to pay for the damage that they cause, and when that’s used up the wolf fans can either disgorge more money of the wolves get shot.
Yep the wolves don’t pay for their steaks and roasts. If they just hunted elk and deer and antelope it would be OK. But they don’t. They snack on valuable commercial livestock while they contribute nothing, but to give a few ecofreaks something to ooh and aah about while they take a lot from the people who actually feed the rest of us. In so doing they run the cost of food up for everyone.
If it is ok for us to irradicate apex predators in North America then it then ok to eardicate them in Africa too? Kill all lions, leopards etc. Right? Same logic, right?
Do you know how much livestock lions kill in Africa every year? Should lions be eradicated? All of you wolf killers are hypocrites.
I am pro wolf. They lived here long before us.
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“Wolves lived here before us”. So what? So did rats, mice, mosquitoes, black flies, etc.
Do you know how much livestock lions kill in Africa every year? Should lions be eradicated? All of you wolf killers are hypocrites.
I was hoping, once released, they would turn on those releasing them.
Would have been more fun than watching the otters released after getting cleaned of oil from the Exton Valdez eaten by prey in front of kids.
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