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Montana's governor encourages ranchers to kill wolves
LaLa Times ^ | Feb 6, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 02/16/2011 9:13:32 PM PST by ForGod'sSake

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To: pankot
What do wolves contribute to the human race?

Really nice fur coats.

81 posted on 02/17/2011 6:32:43 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: ForGod'sSake
With this story and the news out of Idaho, I get a sense that there is a turn of the tide. States are starting to find their spines and say they've had enough of The Fed. Could get very interesting.
82 posted on 02/17/2011 6:34:30 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Tyrants flourish only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.)
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To: RobbyS
Wolves are not just dogs of a different sort. They are twice as smart and strong as big dogs. Just look one in the eye in a zoo. Chilling. First class predators.

That's because the AKC hasn't listed them, and made sure the intellegence was bred out of them.



83 posted on 02/17/2011 6:38:11 AM PST by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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To: ForGod'sSake

“even in areas where that is not currently allowed — and said the state would start shooting packs that hurt elk herds.”

How dare they try to survive. Who the hell gave wolves the right to exist? Wipe out every effing animal on this planet.


84 posted on 02/17/2011 6:57:16 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: pankot

“The DNR protects wolves in WI. Only one question: What do wolves contribute to the human race?”

Oh, wonderful. If something does`nt “contribute” something to the all-mighty human race, wipe it out. I`m sure God would approve of your views. sarc/ What the hell has the human race ever contributed to the planet.


85 posted on 02/17/2011 7:01:51 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: NVDave

re: Western Dems vs. Republicans

My wife was telling me that Butch Otter reversed himself on the wolf matter, or at least backed off a bit.

For the life of me I can’t remember that (which at my age concerns me some!).

I’ll google it but remind me if you’re on the boards and have a moment today.

But you are entirely right as regards political courage generally.

Republicans are forever backing into and apologizing before and after the decisions they make. Look at them begging and wheedling about cutting the budget in D.C. while Obama smirks and preens about running the country off a cliff.

Obviously the press is a problem. Rush yesterday played a montage of the same old vicious stalinists attacking Newt and the boys back in ‘95-—”killing women, starving children, Klansmen, Nazis.” I am not exaggerating: that old black pusbag John Lewis bellowed at Newt: “You guys used to wear white sheets!” And another old woolly-headed scumbag said: “I fought you guys back in WWII!”

If you were around then, as I was, the press didn’t chastise them, it egged them on. And it is doing it again now.

But that is ever the case. Screw the press. We will deal with them later. I will say this much: I have grave reservations about Chris Christie but the one thing he has done (he did it again yesterday in an appearance in Washington) is set the example of how to deal with these people and these situations: You lay out your positions, you present them strongly, and if voices are raised, by God, you make sure yours is the loudest in the room.

You act like a man.

p.s. Thanks for your astute post.


86 posted on 02/17/2011 7:06:36 AM PST by dblup
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To: ForGod'sSake

Wow...I’m liking Montana more and more every day! I need to move there!! Where’s the “employment want ads”?


87 posted on 02/17/2011 7:12:31 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: gleeaikin

However, I read recently that mad cow type disease has been found in the US elk population. Perhaps wolves will be able to kill off the diseased specimens and keep them for being eaten by us or infecting the deer population. East of the Mississippi, we are afraid of that disease being introduced into our game animals.
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If true wouldn’t the wolves themselves be infected by the chronic waisting disease and end up killing off there own ,


88 posted on 02/17/2011 8:13:28 AM PST by mdel747
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To: max americana

I don’t know about feeding the PETA freaks to the wolves, but I think you could do just as much damage by force feeding the wolves to the PETA freaks.


89 posted on 02/17/2011 9:14:48 AM PST by Eva
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To: MTMS

Figures.


90 posted on 02/17/2011 10:47:37 AM PST by ABQHispConservative (Fire all the damn rino!)
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To: Impy
Fair enough. The 2nd amendment issue is my number 1 issue I follow, so that is the basis of my opinion.
91 posted on 02/17/2011 11:33:44 AM PST by mrsixpack36
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To: mdel747; All

Yes, the wolves eating the diseased animals might get it, I am not sure their offspring would have it if they did not eat an infected animal. At any rate, and sick elk or deer that they eat is one that humans will not eat. SOunds like a win win to me. Since we don’t eat wolves, we would be safe.


92 posted on 02/17/2011 11:39:52 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: cracker45
These are not cross breeds, just larger Canadian Grays that have lost their fear of humans due to no hunting and shortage of natural prey that they have already decimated.

Thanks. I suppose we could add to that many of these wolves have spent some time around humans. From capturing, to sequestering, feeding and handling before re-release back into the wild would no doubt skew their instincts to see humans as less threatening. Wild animals with little fear of humans is NOT a good thing eh?

93 posted on 02/17/2011 12:06:16 PM PST by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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To: meadsjn

Tell me that when rats and other vermin infest your home/property.

Wolfs and coyotes favorite foods are rodents and they were here long before we were.


94 posted on 02/17/2011 12:37:38 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek
Tell me that when rats and other vermin infest your home/property.

Wolfs and coyotes favorite foods are rodents and they were here long before we were.

These Canadian grey wolves were not in the lower 48 when Lewis & Clark first came west, and were not here in the intervening two centuries, until the commie environmentalists started introducing them in the 1990s.

These grey wolves are twice the size of the timber wolves that were previously in the rockies of the lower 48. The timber wolves hunted in pairs (that's "two" or "2", for you Texas folk), and even then their hunting was devastating to livestock.

These grey wolves are twice the size, and hunt in packs of eight or more, and one pack was photographed in Oregon with more than twenty together, chasing down and ripping apart an elk herd.

People have been killing coyotes (and the timber wolves) for the past 150 years in the west, and there has been no shortage of coyotes, and no such explosion of the rat population.

95 posted on 02/17/2011 3:50:10 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: ForGod'sSake

“Wild animals with little fear of humans is NOT a good thing eh?”

Right you are! Even Gray Squirrels can give a nasty bite, “too friendly” Raccoons and Coyotes may carry rabies and western Ground Squirrels may be infested with fleas carrying the plague (at least here in central CA).

JC


96 posted on 02/17/2011 4:46:18 PM PST by cracker45 (I don't believe in coincidences!)
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To: gleeaikin

“Since we don’t eat wolves, we would be safe.”

I read somewhere, mebbe six months ago, that Wolf scat from these packs can carry internal parasites that are deadly to domestic dogs. Since they are also extremely territorial with regard to ALL other canids, they readily attack and dismember any dogs they find, sometimes in the vicinity of humans...happened to a hunter in NW Montana some months ago.

JC


97 posted on 02/17/2011 4:55:51 PM PST by cracker45 (I don't believe in coincidences!)
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To: chessplayer

“What the hell has the human race ever contributed to the planet.”

Makes me wonder why you are hanging around on this planet just consuming resources, eh? heh heh

JC


98 posted on 02/17/2011 5:03:48 PM PST by cracker45 (I don't believe in coincidences!)
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To: tinamina

“David Letterman owns a large ranch in Montana West of Great Falls somewhere.”

On the Rocky Mountain Front near Choteau, MT.

JC


99 posted on 02/17/2011 5:06:07 PM PST by cracker45 (I don't believe in coincidences!)
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To: ForGod'sSake; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ..

Thanks ForGod’sSake.


100 posted on 02/17/2011 7:18:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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