It said 'Smoke A Pack A Day', with a wolf in cross-hairs. I have to get one of those.
Posted on 05/15/2010 11:24:50 PM PDT by george76
When Bill Clinton's administration acted in 1995 and 1996 to deliberately reintroduce wolves into the 2.2-million-acre Yellowstone National Park, there were the predictable jokes about Clinton's wolf-whistling in the Oval Office. How could you get sympathy from Clinton, ranchers and Western cattlemen groused -- he's a wolf himself!
In 2005, Kenton Carnegie, 22, an Ontario university student, was killed in remote Points North Landing, Saskatchewan... The jury ruled it a death by wolf attack.
Even if the wolves do not kill the ranchers' herds, they can infect them. If you're tempted to romanticize a wolf pack, think of how romantic a rat pack is.
Russia has seen thousands of people killed by wolves over the centuries...Under the Communists, of course, news of wolf attacks was suppressed by the Soviet government. But people in the rural areas knew the truth.
Why have wolf attacks been so severe in Russia? Graves points out that the Russian government -- under the despotic Tsars, under the tyrannical Communists -- never trusted the people with weapons. The rural peasants were never permitted "to keep and bear arms."
Here's a quick question: How many members of the current Congress and the current administration have ever been hunting? My guess is very few. As the wolves gather in our national parks, two-legged wolves are gathering throughout the world.
Man is wolf to man. And we are being guarded by law professors.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
America’s hunting tradition protects everyone
The Second Amendment protects everyone. It’s not about hunting, and never was.
I can’t help but wonder if these wolf attacks are largely the work of wolves and wolf hybrids raised by bambi freaks who then toss them out when they get uncontrollable. Like the legendary Beasts of Gevaudan they may well by hybrids who don’t know how to make an honest living.
Interesting article. I recently acquired an anti-wolf and anti-bear device that I plan to carry with me on backpacking trips into the wilderness.
Does anyone remember back when the leftists tried saying there has never been a documented case of a wolf killing man before?
Spain declared wolves to be protected a number of years ago, and - guess what - the torn corpses of sheep and even old ladies crossing the fields from one village to another started turning up as the wolves’ numbers grew and they ceased to be afraid of people. The government immediately declared that it was a sudden outbreak of packs of domesticated dogs! But of course the farmers knew perfectly well that it was wolves.
Plus Candice Berner, a 32-year-old schoolteacher, was recently killed in a wolf attack in an Alaska Peninsula village .
My guess is very, very few. I'd bet the majority have feelings similar to the anti-hunting nuts but are afraid to voice those opinions.
Very good article. If wolves are allowed to multiply as other predators have been allowed to multiply to the point they get accustomed to man, we'll have a real problem. They are pack animals and as has been shown in Russia are definitely a danger to man.
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are smart enough to want to strictly manage wolf numbers, I hope they're successful in their upcoming court battles against the enviro nazis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_hunting#Europe_and_Russia
“In the latter years of the 19th century, Russian hunting societies began an energetic campaign against wolves. In 1897, members of the Moscow Hunting Society killed their first 1000 wolves, though the number of professional wolf hunters at the time was rather low. Serfs began hunting wolves after their emancipation in 1861, though rarely with success, as civilian firearms were highly expensive, and the cheaper ones were usually primitive and unable to bare the heavy ammunition necessary to kill wolves”
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I am planning on backpacking in the upper midwest...so, mine is a revolver...last resort type of device.
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