[george76]

Six county commissioners from two states agreed Tuesday that counties in the West should consider suing the federal government about wolves.

"If the state's not going to sue, maybe it's time for us to," Park County Commission Chairman Tim Morrison

• Wolves are killing livestock and depleting elk herds, while making few inroads on bison.
• Some marginal ranching operations are selling their land as subdivisions because of costly predation.
• Ranchers are using fewer acres for grazing, keeping domestic animals closer to home but losing needed grasslands.
• Wolf concerns increasingly are "locking up" public lands.
• There are so many wolves in this area already that it may be too late to manage them.
• The federal government was not truthful when it proposed and actually carried out wolf reintroduction.

[Sparticus]

This wolf reintroduction has one purpose and one purpose alone. To end big game hunting. Period. The primary means that state fish and wildlife departments around the country utilize to manage populations of deer and other big game is through hunting. They've done remarkably well over the past 100 years, bringing many animal populations back from the brink.

The enviros know that an unregulated wolf population in an area will kill deer and elk in such large numbers that a general hunting season can't be sustained. That's their real agenda. Stopping the mean, nasty hunters with their mean, nasty guns.

[glorgau]

Wow, the ranchers will actually have to watch their livestock? What a burden.