Posted on 10/29/2013 5:30:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
I forgot to mention Lyme disease that comes from deer ticks.
Very common here and serious. I don't go near wooded area except in winter.
My wife asked whether a better border fence would help.
I say send them to Detroit. Do a google maps walk-through of Detroit. Plenty new dens and wild land. It’s returning to nature. But seriously, there can be a balance here somehow. Can’t they just re-populate the wolves in some of the huge national parks and leave it at that? The states should still be able to control them and allow limited hunting too. Conservatives should try to embrace conservation of our wild animals, but in a common sense way. I don’t like that we are looked at as being anti-wildlife, anti-environment when we aren’t/shouldn’t. The republican party started conservation in this country and should embrace it. Again...in a way that doesn’t endanger humans of course.
It dawned on me immediately - they ain't dogs. They are another, dangerous, species altogether. It was scary to see them up close, DEAD. I can't imagine being around a pack of them alive, even with an automatic rifle.
Why does there have to be any more housing development in rural areas?
This certainly isn’t interstate commerce. Where does the US Constitution give the federal government the power to declare protected species? Could someone please point that out, because I’m not seeing it.
BTW, I have no problem with state laws protecting species. I don’t even oppose the federal government acting in an advisory capacity on endangered species. They could even help the states reach mutual agreements to protect certain species like wolves, but I don’t see how they can legally (constitutionally) make it a federal crime for someone to kill a wolf.
So far I been lucky as they stood still and let me drive around them. One time I drove right between three of them as they stood on the road and watched me .
In some ways its like driving successfully in ice and snow here, you have to not panic.
This time another car in front of me drove around the one deer too.
In northern Texas herds of feral pigs bulldoze their way through neighborhoods nightly. Landscapers are banking on the destruction due to rooted up yards and tossed gardens.
In some counties they allow hunting them from helicopters in a feeble attempt to thin the herd. But when a female has an average litter of 12, well do the math.
I’ll bet it’s safer to wait for a school bus in Catron County New Mexico than in South Central LA. Seriously.
We should release a dozen wolfs in Central Park. More in Hyde park. Bunches in San Fran. Let them commies see what they are doing to the West.
Because here in Maryland the government is still hiring and immigrants are still coming in droves for the jobs, many more educated than those born here.
The County sees big $$$ in it and they get to continually raise our taxes without consequence.
There is a reason wolves were hunted to near extinction.
It is the same reason we should open the hunt again.
Yep...part of the “wildland project” or whatever they’re calling it these days.
And government is all Dems, once in a while an animal lovers complains but no one cares.
Are those pigs eatable? Its it worth it to hunters to go after them??
There are university professors that have driven 250 miles just to see our place. What we have accomplished has apparently never been done.
For all the crap we hear about "protecting Nature," effectively, there isn't any.
That is how this crap started. The wolves don't recognize park boundaries.
The range of these critters is understated by the official sources--which enhances their leverage for expansion while permitting establishment of populations in areas which have not been populated with these animals in living memory.
Predators will overpopulate, eliminate game animals, and then suffer a reduction in numbers, provided that prey animals are limited in number. They will turn to livestock for a food source, and there is no reason to believe that they will not attack people when the normal prey are reduced sufficiently.
The people pushing for this crap are theorists sitting in urban enclaves, the people fighting it are on the front lines.
SSS, but always with the risk of losing everything either way.
That's the dream all right. It won't work too. At the rate they're going, they'll have a grand view of a desert.
The third doesn't work so well with a wolf that is collared.
No, they won't stay put and there's more food outside the parks than in them.
Don’t they have leash laws there?
The freakin’ tree-hugging Rangers can walk them.
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