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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Idaho and Montana already are immune from a legal challenge by Congress.
Wyoming needs the legal immunity from Congress, too. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife played games last time
Bringing the wolf back into the contiguous United States is one of the most idiotic ideas ever conceived by anyone from the human race. Future generations will undo this insanity.
Scientists now classify the domestic dog and the wolf in the same genus. Is “wolfness” something that could be bred back into dogs, if it was at one time bred out of wolves to get dogs?
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.
Yellowstone should not get a government pass. Wolves and wolf packs are decimating not only the Yellowstone elk population, but a good bit of buffalo, cow calf, sheep lamb population outside the park. I agree with other posters that the reintroduction of wolves, was insanity on parade.
Long nose environmentalists desire for expanding wilderness areas in this country, is more of the same. It is all part and parcel of the Gospel of Green, and while basking under the protective blanket of the Constitution of the United States, they will ever be attempting to undermine the vision of the founders and the efforts of our forefathers to make this place habitable for man.
Human activities and the raising of Livestock are both incompatible with an active wolf population IMHO. The same goes for mountain lions uncontrolled that is.
Good to see WY at least attempting to control the federal leviathan. The more states so engaged, the less we the people will be bothered by overreaching government.
From...
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/94-65.htm
As early as 1877, wolf hunters used strychnine-poisoned ungulate carcasses to kill wolves in Yellowstone National Park (Weaver, 1978: 7). Federal efforts to eradicate the wolf escalated to such a degree that an estimated 80,000 wolves were killed in Montana alone between 1884 and 1918 (Dawidoff, 1992: 40). By trapping, poisoning and shooting, Animal Damage Control, the federal anti-wolf hit squad, was able to wipe out virtually every wolf native to the United States in a few short decades.
Reminds me of the plight of buffaloes along with the Indians.
The last one I saw was almost two years ago, three of them. They had just killed a deer on the beach and were tearing it apart.
I don't care for them at all, and if the situation permits, I shoot.
They make great pelts.
I still have a military issue parka, with a real wolf ruff. I bought it at the surplus store, I didn’t swipe it. If you have noticed, pc military today, uses crap that doesn’t do what animal/wolf hair does for one, in cold weather. Managing wolves would again provide natural and useful ruffs for all the parkas one could make.
Wolf fur coat, beautiful!
“I think one of the greatest intentional and continuing mistakes of the Federal Government has been paying an indigenous people not to assimilate”.
Not to hijack a thread, but for an Alaskan with Indian blood, that is a very true and most profound statement if I may quote and complement you. I live not far from one of the poorest reservations, in the US.
Sad I ever left Fairbanks AK, but duty and my country, called.
PS, Speaking of wolves, seen any native Alaskans with synthetic ruffs on their parkas?
The right thing to do is shoot every one you possibly can.
The wolves, not the feds.
To: george76
Bringing the wolf back into the contiguous United States is one of the most idiotic ideas ever conceived by anyone from the human race. Future generations will undo this insanity.
You are sooooooo right on this one! I live right next to a Federal wildlife Refuge where wolves were introduced not too long ago. At one time, the refuge (Necedah National Wildlife Refuge) was known for its excellent wild game and in particular, deer hunting. (Shakespeare bow manufactures even named one of the hunting bows after the refuge.) Well, hunting is NOT SO great any longer. There are VERY FEW deer here. Wolves have literally eaten themselves out of house and home. Coyotes too are on the decline as wolves eat them as well. To my knowledge and conversations with the locals, any wolf seen off the refuge is/has been pretty much fair game. There has been a lot of “s,s & s” but the wolf population continues. Now that the state has introduced a season on wolves, perhaps a dent will be made but I have my doubts.
Wyoming needs the legal immunity from Congress, too. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife played games last time
They already have, it is called the Constitution. Where in the Constitution does the federal government have any authority to dictate to the states about animal control?
Each gray wolf kills about 40 animals (deer, moose, elk, antelope, etc.) a year. It only eats a couple dozen of the ones it kills. The others are killed just for the sport of it. Not only that, but the threat keeps animals away from their natural feeding and breeding grounds and puts pressure on females which negatively affects fertility and gestation.
This killing machine has no natural enemies. Seems this is about to change as ID and MT have also moved to check the population. WA is also considering measures.
The situation with wolves is another of endless dictates from influential elites and the "experts" in the government (especially the feds) who think they know what is better for everyone else.
Common sense and the constitution be damned! They are going to instruct us how to live every minute of our lives.
The oppression is truly becoming unendurable!
Each day there is something new from these people - sending kids home from school because they don't like the lunch mom packed, forcing taxpayers to pay for birth control and abortions against their beliefs, constantly chipping away at the second amendment, financing militant Islamic groups with tax money extorted under threat of fines and incarceration, ever increasing "wealth redistribution" from people who earn their way to the moocher classes, 20,000 drones to watch our every movement from the sky!
There is no end to it and it's not just Obama and his followers, although he is the worse yet. It is, and has been, both republicans and democrats who think they know better than individual Americans where we should live, how to raise our children, how we should each live, eat, sleep, love, use the toilet, travel, and spend what little money they haven't already stolen from us and our grand-kids to enrich their pals and supporters.
Even on a sunny day there is a dark cloud of oppression hanging over our heads.
The powder keg is going to explode one of these days, probably sooner than later.
Wyoming has good reason to be concerned about the prospect of legal challenges to its delisting plan if it doesn’t get the legal immunity from Congress. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife a few years ago approved a similar delisting agreement with the state only to repudiate it shortly afterward when a federal judge expressed concern in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups that it wouldn’t provide adequate protection for wolves.
It's a three-fronted war to delist the wolf. The state of Wyoming has to fight the tyrannical Feds, activist judges, and the tree-hugging Left.
Godspeed to them!
Thanks for the ping, George. I'm confident Wyoming will eventually succeed in this.
My thoughts too.
Very well said, your statement is succint and so true.
Under the agreement, wolves could be shot on sight in much of the state.
This is what screwed Wyomings deal up last time and am glad to see they're sticking to their guns.
All states with a wolf population should have the same clause in their wolf management laws. There's absolutely no reason for people to hava to learn to live with a wolf population.
I suspect many wolves are smart enough to realize where they get shot at and killed and where they don't, well maybe. At least the ones that strayed out of the no shoot areas wouldn't be a problem for long.
Very well said, your statement is succinct and so true.
Under the agreement, wolves could be shot on sight in much of the state.
This is what screwed Wyoming's deal up last time and am glad to see they're sticking to their guns.
All states with a wolf population should have the same clause in their wolf management laws. There's absolutely no reason for people to have to learn to live with a wolf population.
I suspect many wolves are smart enough to realize where they get shot at and killed and where they don't, well maybe. At least the ones that strayed out of the no shoot areas wouldn't be a problem for long.
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