Posted on 10/10/2022 5:42:17 AM PDT by george76
New wolf depredation incidents are being reported in northern Colorado. First, in Rio Blanco County, just south of Meeker, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed 18 head of 600-pound calves were attacked and killed by wolves
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on the LK Ranch, owned by Lenny and Jackie Klinglesmith. The cattle were up in their summer pasture, when the wolf depredation incidents were discovered. Travis Duncan with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says necropsies on each animal have been performed and it is an active investigation.
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A second Colorado wolf depredation incident was in the past few days in Jackson County, near Pole Mountain, according to Adam VanValkenburg who is the president of the North Park Stockgrowers Association.
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A pack of six black wolves and one gray wolf have been reported in Jackson County, and have been responsible for the deaths of five cows, two dogs, and a calf. Another rancher got a video of the pack crossing Jackson County Road 28 on Sept. 18.
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Adam VanValkenburg and Lenny Klinglesmith were recently at a gathering of nearly two dozen Colorado livestock ranchers and educators in Montana. Routt County Rancher Jo Stanko was there along with Todd Hagenbuch, who is the Agriculture Agent and County Director for the CSU Extension Office in Routt County. They met with Montana ranchers who have been dealing with wolves for 20 years, to learn how best to manage the wolves in Colorado.
VanValkenburg says the Montana ranchers say lethal management best changes a wolf’s behavior. That can be done through hunting, or if a wolf is attacking or harassing livestock.
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wolves are already here, as reported in Jackson and Rio Blanco counties. He says the best thing to do now is to move forward since ranchers have to deal with it.
Colorado ranchers are not allowed to shoot a wolf. If they do, it’s one year in jail, a $100,000 fine, and the loss of hunting privileges for life.
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That's the law. But a backhoe or a shovel and a lot of digging negates that law. Oh, and by the way, shut up about the whole matter.
Shoot or poison the wolves.
Our ancestors did not kill off the wolves and mountain lions because they were bad people. They killed them because our lifestyle and society can’t have predators destroying our livelihood or picking our children off at bus stops.
Then some jack@$$ eastern environmentalists thought it would be cool to reintroduce wolf populations and impose draconian fines for shooting the nasty creatures.
Ultimately, they aim to drive ranchers out of business. Even here is SW Pennsylvania, coyotes have become more common thanks to their war on rural America.
When will Africans rid the planet of all predators over there? Who needs lions, chettahs and leopords anyway?
It won’t drive them out of business. It is just another cost of doing business.
I think you are right. This isn’t about wolves. It’s about about destroying people and their livelihoods. The bastards.
Yes. The 3 S’s. Shoot Shovel and Shut up
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“When will Africans rid the planet of all predators over there? Who needs lions, chettahs and leopords anyway?”
For us they are beautiful animals. Trying to keep all the beautiful animals around is wonderful, but we don’t live with them. We can fly over, stay in a hotel and then take a guided tour to see all the beautiful animals. That’s a first world attitude. Some of those African nations will have a huge population by the end of the century. I suspect there will be very few predators left in the wild. There will be very little wild left in the wild.
Also have a gps tag frequently.
Go throw that in a bar ditch far away. Hike or take horse so it’s not obvious it was in a vehicle.
Drug some mountain lions and wolves and let them out on Martha’s Vineyard.
F a lion, f a wolf....
Would tall boots help?
I know several ranchers in Southeast New Mexico, people who feed you, who are losing their multi-generational ranches, because they can’t afford to feed cattle to wolves. If you knew the ENTIRE story of what the environmentalists, and city folks who want to “save” the wolves, are doing to people there you would cry. It is heartbreaking. These greenies have wildlife being managed by activist judges far removed from the consequences of their decisions. Yes, wolves are apex predators, living in an artificial environment. The Garden of Eden has changed and greenies are forcing, through the courts, rural people off their land for their unrealistic and uneducated view of what nature should be.
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