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lionruby 09:47:39 AM Feb 27 2008
vegacarrol is right - GET A DOG, Ranchers. Get SEVERAL. You want to protect your investment? Go purchase and work with one of the breeds of dog that were developed for precisely this purpose, to keep the larger predators away. Do some research. There are several dogs who are bred to deal with predators this big, and who do a damn fine job of it. You guys jonesing to go shoot a big predator, maybe you should organize a man hunt...
pny147 02:56:04 PM Feb 26 2008
PNY147
I lived in Alaska for many years when wolves had a bounty on them, and you could take them by any means. They were hunted 365 days a year. When do-gooders in the lower 48 decided they should have protected status, it only took 10 years for wolves to start picking off dogs tied up in peoples back yards, within the city limits of Fairbanks.
For the record, Wolves have never been “on the brink of extinction†in North America. There have always been significant populations in Alaska and Canada. Regarding the overpopulation of game animals in Yellowstone. It could easily be remedied by allowing the ultimate predator, man, to thin the populations out.
Rather than contributing to the local economies with hunting dollars, people would rather see more tax dollars wasted on sharpshooters so the wolves won’t be disturbed. I’ll wager if you counted the number of people who go to Idaho, Montana, or Wyoming specifically to encounter wolves, and then the number of people who visit th
vegacarrol 02:43:54 PM Feb 25 2008
Part of the ranchers problem with natural predators like wolves and mountain lions is that domesticated cattle and sheep have had the abiliity to defend themselves bred out of them. Most are dehorned, and cannot even form a circle, with calves inside, as musk oxen do. There were far more wolves in the 19th century when there was open range and wily Texas long hormed cattle fed and bred, left pretty much alone by human hands until roundup time. The wolves only could pull down the sick and feeble, these critters were so feisty. The racners and breeders would do well to restore some of these missing traits. The cattle might become somewhat harder to handle, but the yield would surely make up for it.
vegacarrol 02:36:49 PM Feb 25 2008
Removing the wolves from the endangered species list will only mean that instead of practicing "shoot, shovel and shut up" the ranchers will now gun them down from airplanes, or organize huge mounted posses and go out on wolf hunts, shooting everything larger than a rabbit and maybe some people in the process. There is a solution for the ranchers who want to protect their cattle and sheep. It is guard dogs, which have been used against wolves in Europe for centuries. There are at least five breeds to choose from-- the Great Pyreneanfrom northern Spain, and the Kasovar, from Hungary and two. These are NOT border collies, but big fellows, 200 libs and up. They WORK!! Wolves cull the elk herds and prevent them from overgrazing. They also deter squatters and clandestine marijuana planters. Man's brutality toward natural predators has got to be controlled.
dkandmp 03:15:56 AM Feb 25 2008
hatchlvnv 11:26:56 AM Feb 23 2008
Report This! (Wolves-part 2) Unfortunetly, when wolf packs begin regular hunting of cattle, they won't stop. Would you? It's easy hunting and good eating! Even reloating them won't work as they'll eventually find more cattle to feed on. However, opening up wholesale sport hunting of wolves is not the answer. That would allow killing of wolvepacks that don't kill cattle and help keep wild big game herds healthy. Anyway, wolves feed far more on rodents and rabbits than anything else. To allow wholesale hunting and killing of wolves is cruel and wrong. There needs to be a better, more educated public policy on the wolves.
There's this show on National Geographic, called "Living with Wolves." This guy has been living in a zoo in England for 2 years. While he is obviously off his rocker, he has come up with an idea for scaring wolves away from ranches/farms. He has recordings of wolves doing their special howl they use to scare other packs away from t
dkandmp 03:08:28 AM Feb 25 2008
black2deep 09:30:20 PM Feb 24 2008
Report This! sitkawlf 01:07:43 PM Feb 23 2008
Report This! What a sad day for Montana if darylray1 is a buffoon spokes person for that state. I must thank you for confirming for me that your state is not a state I'd spend my vacation time or money in. Yehaw! Rather pick daisies, worship wolves and not eat beef grown on federal land. Can't do anything about the ignorance that you spew, but I surely can boycott your product and state. What an ass.
The more wolves the merrier Thank you!!!
Judy Wolf Heart (native american, wolf spirited and proud of it!)
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Native American and still thinks releasing wolf's back into the wild is a stupid mistake. Kill them all.
How about instead we do something about this human overpopulation, let's start by getting rid of the ones who would make such ignorant statements as yours.
With any luck, in your next life you will come back as a wolf, get
sleepout1 09:45:51 PM Feb 24 2008
I think wolves should be reintroduced in all wilderness area's. This helps balance nature and adds to the wildness experience. It would be like going to Africa on a safari and being told that all of the lions were wiped out. Having camped out in the upper Minn. wilderness I remember hearing wolves in the wild and thinking this was the neatest thing I had ever heard. Talking to wild life officers in the smokie Mountains all I heard was how hard it was to control the wild boar population and the deer population. What a shame we can't reintroduce wolves into the area. Jeff in Jacksonville Florida
black2deep 09:30:20 PM Feb 24 2008
sitkawlf 01:07:43 PM Feb 23 2008
Report This! What a sad day for Montana if darylray1 is a buffoon spokes person for that state. I must thank you for confirming for me that your state is not a state I'd spend my vacation time or money in. Yehaw! Rather pick daisies, worship wolves and not eat beef grown on federal land. Can't do anything about the ignorance that you spew, but I surely can boycott your product and state. What an ass.
The more wolves the merrier Thank you!!!
Judy Wolf Heart (native american, wolf spirited and proud of it!)
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Native American and still thinks releasing wolf's back into the wild is a stupid mistake. Kill them all.
dtwoleftfeet 01:26:29 PM Feb 23 2008
Great news concering the grey wolves. Just one note of caution....dont go hiking alone in the northern Rockies
sitkawlf 01:07:43 PM Feb 23 2008
What a sad day for Montana if darylray1 is a buffoon spokes person for that state. I must thank you for confirming for me that your state is not a state I'd spend my vacation time or money in. Yehaw! Rather pick daisies, worship wolves and not eat beef grown on federal land. Can't do anything about the ignorance that you spew, but I surely can boycott your product and state. What an ass.
The more wolves the merrier Thank you!!!
Judy Wolf Heart (native american, wolf spirited and proud of it!)
