Posted on 02/14/2012 11:11:07 PM PST by george76
Wyoming lawmakers appear ready to change the state’s wolf management law to accommodate an agreement that Gov. Matt Mead and U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar reached last year on ending federal protections for the animals in the state.
Under the agreement, wolves could be shot on sight in much of the state. The Republican governor has made wolf management a priority, saying the animals threaten agricultural interests and other wildlife.
Officials say there are about 300 wolves in the state, and Mead has said the population grows by 10 percent every year.
Under the deal, Wyoming would commit to maintaining 15 breeding pairs and at least 150 animals in the state, including within Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Indian Reservation. The state would be responsible for keeping at least 10 breeding pairs and 100 wolves outside the park and the reservation.
The agreement calls for wolves to be treated as protected game animals in a flexible zone around Yellowstone but classified as unprotected predators that could be shot on sight in the rest of the state.
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I've often thought that if the wolf lovers really want to ensure perpetuation of the species, the best way would be to allow wolves to be raised commercially on ranches.
You could get a twofer by charging hunters to come in for the harvest and giving them the option of getting paid for the pelts they bring in or letting them keep the pelts as long as they paid the ranch operation for the tanning.
There is actually some data on elephants about how two African countires have taken polar opposite approaches. I'm not sure which the two are, but lets call them K and B.
K takes a strict approach which allows no hunting and no trade in elephant parts, be they skin, tusks or meat. Any such poaching harvests are destroyed when seized. Still, poaching is rampant and the elephant herds are declining.
B takes a controlled harvest approach. Licenses and tags are required. Any trade in elephant parts are monitored to ensure they were properly harvested. The herds are growing and the resulting revenue from growing tag sales are increasing effective policing of the program.
No reason we couldn't take the same approach as B with wolves.
Well, yes, but you have people like Pricilla Feral of the Friends of Animals who would not like your idea one bit. And there’s a good change the govt would be on her side...
Research, reality, results. Gotta love it, unless you are overrun by those to whom nothing matters but ones feel good feelings on the subject. Which IMHO is just more of that religion of the LNB, and the doctrine of usurpation. That would be the long nose busybodies that desire a shared monarchy between themselves and members of the animal kingdom against those who believe God gave to man, knowledge of the real KING, and, dominion over his environment.
Regarding ruffs on parka's, haven't seen much of any real or synthetic ruff here in SE Alaska. My time in West Alaska, I purchased a "Mulukayak" (phonetic spelling, Yupik), which is a fur hat. Mine is made of Spotted Seal and Beaver. The warmest hat I have ever owned, they are common, and the only thing to keep your head warm zipping along on a snow machine when it's 40 below.
That hat is now 28 years old and I still remember giving a young native woman $150.00 for it. She had tried to sell it in Bethel and was returning to her village Kwethluk I think, a little discouraged.
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