Protect wolves from the livestock industry!

[Liberty Belle]

I found this on the internet and thought I'd better share it with those of you living in this area. The wolves in western South Dakota are managed (or mismanged!) the same as those in the area covered by this story. Following this goofy article I'll post another story that gives you the information you need to make your own comments. If we don't comment, we had better not complain about wolf depradation of our livestock!!

Protect Wolves From the Livestock Industry!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing the removal of Gray Wolves from the endangered species list and mismanagement of wolf populations to allow Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to slaughter all but 600 or fewer of 1,500 wolves using poison, aerial gunning, leghold traps and digging up wolf dens and killing pups.

We only have until August 6 to tell them NO!
Act now >>

Appropriately, the 1995 reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho has been heralded as a pivotal event for the conservation movement. Thanks to thoughtfully laid recovery plans and the protections under the Endangered Species Act, we have witnessed a wonderful success: the resurgence of a healthy wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

But the mismanagement of wolves could turn back time - once again, posing the risk of decimation to the Gray Wolf population. Don't let the Bush Administration help the livestock industry revert back to turn of the century exterminations of wolves!

Wolves contribute to the balance of nature and have specific ecosystem benefits. Many other animals -- including coyotes, bears, badgers, eagles, ravens, magpies, weasels and skunks -- will become incidental victims of poison set out for wolves.

The health of the ecosystems is dependent on the Gray Wolf. Nature can't afford to lose this integral predator >>

Three wolf populations -Yellowstone, Central Idaho and Northwestern Montana -- are largely separate from each other and with little genetic exchange. Killing more wolves would knock the population even further and stop its expansion beyond the bare minimum.

Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Gray Wolf!

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July 31, 2007

http://newsblaze.com/story/20070731104620tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

 

[Liberty Belle]

I've highlighted the contact information for you in the story below:

Comments mixed on wolf rule proposal
Changes to 10(j) rule would allow dog owners to kill wolves attacking their pets
By JASON KAUFFMAN
Express Staff Writer

Gray wolves roaming across a portion of the northern Rocky Mountain tri-state region of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming could be killed for an increasing number of reasons under a plan the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering.

Under the proposal, the federal 10(j) rule would be expanded to allow wolves to be killed for depredations on stock animals and dogs, and to achieve wildlife management objectives.

The controversial rule, which was first published in the Federal Register in 2005 and applies to areas south of U.S. Interstate 90 in Idaho and Montana, for now only allows wolves attacking livestock and herding and guarding animals to be killed under specific circumstances.

For the existing rule as well as the proposed new changes to apply in Wyoming, the state would have to produce a wolf management plan the Fish and Wildlife Service deems acceptable. The agency is now in the process of considering a new plan that Wyoming has drafted.

Under the proposed changes to the 10(j) rule, the rule would further allow the shooting of wolves that attack dogs on public and private land. The rule change would also make it easier for states having Fish and Wildlife Service-approved wolf management plans in place to kill wolves in areas where ungulate populations are not meeting the state's management objectives.

As the 10(j) rule now exists, states must prove that wolves are having an unacceptable impact on ungulate populations to be able to remove them by lethal means. In the 2005 rule, unacceptable impact is defined as a "decline in a wild ungulate population or herd, primarily caused by wolf predation."

Under the proposed new wolf rule unacceptable impact would be redefined to mean an "impact to a wild ungulate population or herd, with wolves as one of the major causes of the population or herd not meeting established state or tribal population or herd management goals."

In the existing wolf rule, "we set a threshold that has not provided the intended flexibility to allow states and tribes to resolve conflicts between wolves and ungulate populations," the Fish and Wildlife Service states in its notice in the Federal Register proposing the changes to the 10(j) rule.

At public hearing in Boise on Thursday, July 19, representatives from the federal agency listened to comments ranging from enthusiastic support all the way to downright hostility for the plan. The hearing was the last of three open houses held in different locations in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

The previous two hearings were held in Cody, Wyo., on Tuesday, July 17, and Helena, Mont., on Wednesday, July 18.

In Boise, comments seemed to be split fairly evenly between the "for" and "against" camps.

Voicing support for the proposed changes during the Boise meeting was Steve Nadeau, the large carnivore manager for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. More importantly, however, Nadeau said the Fish and Wildlife Service needs to continue along the path to full delisting of the gray wolf in Idaho, Montana and Idaho.

"Delisting is not as some would have you believe—the end of wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains," he said.

Rather, Nadeau said it's a reflection that wolves are here to stay.

The states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming can not continue to have denser and denser wolf populations, Nadeau said. More wolves will mean more wolf-human conflicts.

"It's time to demystify wolves," he said. "Let's get on with it."

Standing in stark contrast to the views expressed by Nadeau was Suzanne Stone, the Northern Rockies representative of Defenders of Wildlife, which has dolled out thousands to ranchers whose herds were preyed on by wolves.

For the most part, elk populations in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are at or above population objectives state fish and game managers have established, Stone said.

"These changes are clearly unnecessary," she said. "We strongly oppose changes to the 10(j) rule."

Although the Fish and Wildlife Service will not hold any more public hearings on the proposed 10(j) rule changes, the agency will continue to take written comments by regular mail and email until Aug. 6, 2007. To mail comments, send them to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator, 585 Shepard Way, Helena, Mont., 59601. E-mailed comments can be sent to [email protected]. Include "RIN number 1018-Av39" in the subject line of the email message.

A decision on the wolf rule change could happen as early as late 2007 or early 2008.

July 27, 2007
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005116266

 

[Jinglebob]

I let them know my thought!

Thanks for posting this LB. You'se a good kid, I don't care what some say. :wink:

 

[flrooster]

i wrote them my opion, a little moral support for all yall that have to deal with in person.

 

[elwapo]

A bud of mine had a wolf problem up north. He dealt with it by using a tablet of ibuprofen inserted in a meat ball. Takes about 5 days.Carefull though, it kills dogs too.

 

[Hereford76]

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like a gut shot--next one you need to lead a little more... :wink:

 

[rainie]

elwapo: What type of Ibuprofen (brand name). Do you know how it works in the wolf's body. Does he mash up a pill or leave it hole. Last winter a trapper came in and got 102 coyotes, and 8 wolves within a 10 mile radius of our place. There was another pack of 6 wolves that he saw but he couldn't get them. They were just too smart. We lost 2 calves about a month ago. They've been causing nothing but trouble in this area. Wish the peta people could see what kind of damage a pack can do. Saw a yearling heifer one time at a neighbors. There was no meat at all on her back end, yet she was still able to walk. We put her down. Pretty disgusting sight. Are you sure Ibuprofen will work.

 

[Jinglebob]

elwapo: What type of Ibuprofen (brand name). Do you know how it works in the wolf's body. Does he mash up a pill or leave it hole. Last winter a trapper came in and got 102 coyotes, and 8 wolves within a 10 mile radius of our place. There was another pack of 6 wolves that he saw but he couldn't get them. They were just too smart. We lost 2 calves about a month ago. They've been causing nothing but trouble in this area. Wish the peta people could see what kind of damage a pack can do. Saw a yearling heifer one time at a neighbors. There was no meat at all on her back end, yet she was still able to walk. We put her down. Pretty disgusting sight. Are you sure Ibuprofen will work.

Could those of you who have problems with wolves and coyotes, please start taking good clear pictures of the losses, that we can show these Disney worshiping idiots? If we had some with a date and place on them to pass around, we just might wake some of these people up. At least the ones who don't know and would like to know the truth.

I've been ready where the internet and blogs have had such a huge impact on the world and the lkast election. Lets get some factual pictures out there and we just might do some good.

 

[rainie]

JB: My biggest problem is I'm pretty much computer illiterate. I'm going to get a decent camera, and I'll get one of the kids to show me how to post pictures on here. Worst time of the year is coming up in August, when momma wolf is training her pups. Be treating calves for pneumonia with little bite marks between their back legs. I quess they just run the heck out of these calves, and that's why they get pneumonia. Conservation people are absolutely no help. They told me too just shoot one if I see it. I told them no sh**. I'm going to shoot one if I see it. Problem is just seeing one, never mind trying to shoot one. They are a very smart animal. The one wolf that the trapper got fit nicely in the back of a 8 foot truck box. He was huge!!!!

 

[Hereford76]

Saw a yearling heifer one time at a neighbors. There was no meat at all on her back end, yet she was still able to walk. We put her down. Pretty disgusting sight.

Did it look something like this

Here's a couple of calf losses this spring from the coyotes. I take pictures for insurance.

 

[elwapo]

rainie
This fellow was in the peace country and had a pack of wolves absolutely terrorizing his herd. He used one generic ibuprofen tablet (brand names motrin, tylenol) and inserted the whole tablet in the meat ball. Basically it shuts the wolves/coyotes liver down and kills them dead.

 

[Jinglebob]

Saw a yearling heifer one time at a neighbors. There was no meat at all on her back end, yet she was still able to walk. We put her down. Pretty disgusting sight.

Did it look something like this

Here's a couple of calf losses this spring from the coyotes. I take pictures for insurance.

If I could figure out how to transfer these photo's, I'd put them on my blog, with your permission.

People need to see this stuff. Otherwise they will never know, as Disney and those kinds of movies don't show this. :x

 

[Terry Brown]

coyotes on our ranch tend to suffer a bit from lead poisening. . . that seems to slow them down. . . .