San Diego Loves Green – WELCOMING WOLVES BACK TO CALIFORNIA – A RANCHER’S PERSPECTIVE. My husband and I live on the Bar C R ranch in Petaluma, CA where we run 300 mother cows using predator friendly ranching methods. I am also an advisory board member of Project Coyote – a coalition of educators, scientists and predator-friendly ranchers who promote coexistence between people and wildlife. As someone who understands the importance and benefits that predators provide to both ranch lands and entire eco systems, I want to see the wolf recover in California. Last week I spoke at a rally in Sacramento in support of maintaining federal protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)- and against a proposal put forth by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist wolves from the ESA. As important apex predators, wolves need and deserve protection across their historical range.
Many management tools and techniques have proven successful in preventing attacks on livestock. Keli Hendricks. Aqutaq window gazing. The Wolf Army. Howling For Justice | Blogging for the Gray Wolf. Idaho Kills 23 wolves from Helicopter This Month in Lolo Zone | Earth First! Newswire. Adelheid16 : #ReListWolves as #endangered... Cascadia Wildlands. Seven Wolves Killed In Idaho’s Frank Church Wilderness by Government Hired Trapper. Susi wolf, wolves, endangered wildlife by Carola Ankar - GoFundMe. Idaho failing to understand crucial role of apex predators like wolves. Anything that reduces the wolf population is not good. The word “wolf” in Idaho conjures up emotions and actions such as unfounded fear, anger at an animal that belongs in the ecosystem, compulsion to kill, and cruelty to an animal that is utilizing its inborn hunting instinct so hunters have more elk to kill. Between Gov.
“Butch” Otter’s proposed $2 million Idaho Wolf Control Board and a little-known group called the Foundation for Wildlife Management that wants to form a trapping co-op, it appears that the state’s primary focus is eliminating wolves. A paper called “Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores,” published in the Jan. 10 issue of the journal “Science“ and co-authored by 15 national and international scientists, states “that a world without these species is scarier than a world with them.” Looking to the future, the scientists say “they expect the loss of apex predators will bring degradation to ecosystems.” Jeanne Rasmussen, Littleton, Colo.