Peer-Review-Report-of-Proposed-rule-regarding-wolves.pdf. US government could drive grey wolf to extinction. About 300 wolves live in the nearly 2-million-acre swath of central Ontario forest known as Algonquin Provincial Park.
Www.peer.org/assets/docs/fws/5_22_13_Gray_Wolf_FOIA_Complaint.pdf. Great News For Wolves! For Now. Decision on wolf protections in Lower 48 delayed May 20, 2013 22:00 GMT Wildlife advocates and some members of Congress argue that the wolf’s recovery is incomplete because the animal occupies just a fraction of its historical range….
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states. In a court filing Monday, government attorneys say “a recent unexpected delay” is indefinitely holding up action on the predators. No further explanation was offered. Gray wolves are under protection as an endangered species and have recovered dramatically from widespread extermination in recent decades. More than 6,000 of the animals now roam the continental U.S. A draft proposal to lift protections elsewhere drew strong objections when it was revealed last month. Like this: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Wolf Rider. Wolves to the Slaughter The Grim Numbers of Idaho Wolf Killing The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Wolf Rider.
By Ken Cole On March 14, 2012 · 64 Comments · In Delisting, Idaho Wolves, Montana Wolves, Oregon Wolves, Utah Wolves, Washington state wolves, Wolves The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the many wolf advocacy groups who held that Congressman Mike Simpson’s and Senator Jon Tester’s budget rider, which delisted wolves in Idaho, Montana, and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Utah, was unconstitutional. Friends of the Clearwater Moscow, Idaho. By George Wuerthner The resumption of wolf-hunts in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming illustrates why citizens must continue to oppose such unnecessary and senseless slaughters. The wolf-hunts are predicated upon morally corrupt and inaccurate assumptions about wolf behavior and impacts that is not supported by recent scientific research.
State wildlife agencies pander to the lowest common denominator in the hunting community—men who need to booster their own self-esteem and release misdirected anger by killing. Wolf-hunts, as Montana Fish and Game Commission Chairman Bob Ream noted at a public hearing, are in part to relieve hunters’ frustrations—frustration based on inaccurate information, flawed assumptions, and just plain old myths and fears about predators and their role in the world. Maybe relieving hunter frustration is a good enough justification for wolf-hunts to many people. Over 1,500 wolves killed in the contiguous U.S. since hunting legalized. Wolf in Yellowstone National Park.
Photo courtesy of Yellowstone National Park. Hunters and trappers have killed approximately 1,530 wolves over the last 18 months in the contiguous U.S., which excludes Alaska. After being protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for 38 years, gray wolves (Canis lupus) were stripped of their protected states in 2011 by a legislative rider (the only animal to ever be removed in this way). A Rather Dismal Wolf Update. So much to report in the wolf world, but right now it feels like very little of it is good news.
Here’s a brief update, state by state. Washington has hunters on the ground, poised in readiness, to kill four members of the Wedge pack. These wolves have killed a lot of cattle, Carter Niemeyer has verified this, but what about the future? The doors of communication have been thrust open by individuals and organizations who are capable and willing to drive to the Diamond M and search out ways to help decrease livestock predation. Www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/bclawreview/pdf/50_4/06_alderman.pdf. Salazar Approves Wolf Delisting. UPDATE: Green groups going to courthouse again.
See end of article for details. In a “Pen and Pad” teleconference today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told reporters he was going ahead with removing the gray wolf from the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the Great Lakes States, Idaho and Montana, but not Wyoming. “Idaho and Montana have succeeded in getting us to a point where we can delist the wolf,” Salazar announced, “and this shows us the Endangered Species Act can work. With Wyoming, frankly, the scientists in the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) do not believe the recovery plan is adequate to protect the wolf in Wyoming. “We don’t believe we should punish the states that have done well,” he added. The delisting proposal now goes to the Federal Register for publication, but Salazar didn’t give a specific time frame, nor did he address litigation by green groups, which resulted in the FWS pulling back on its delisting plan last year.
P.S. Wolf Hunts Morally Corrupt. Congress strips grey wolf endangered species protection. 16 April 2011Last updated at 00:02 By Daniel Nasaw BBC News, Washington Conservation groups fear the move by Congress could set a dangerous precedent.
Wolves to the Slaughter. In April 2001, a U.S. government wildlife trapper named Carter Niemeyer choppered into the mountains of central Idaho to slaughter a pack of wolves whose alpha female was famed for her whiteness.
He hung from the open door of the craft with a semiautomatic shotgun, the helicopter racing over the treetops. Then, in a clearing, Niemeyer caught a glimpse of her platinum fur. Among wolf lovers in Idaho, she was called Alabaster, and she was considered a marvel—most wolves are brown or black or gray. "Crying Wolf: The Unlawful Delisting of Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wo" by Jesse H. Alderman. Abstract.
Trapped Wolf Used for Target Practice. Wolves remain in the crosshairs and the teeth of leghold traps in the Northern Rockies (see and).
Let me say upfront that I apologize for posting this brief alert, but it's essential that people who don't know about what's happening learn about the barbaric treatment of wolves, and also for the skeptics to see it up close and personal if they can stand it. You can read about the story of a trapped and tortured wolf in a short essay in Earth Island Journal. It contains graphic language and pictures. Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak: Defenseless wolves urgently need howl of public support. “I was like, Yes!
Fear the wrath of man! I got a rush. I was showing the animal that I’m better, more powerful, and able to control their existence.” — anonymous hunter AB 502, the wolf kill bill, recently passed the Assembly Natural Resources committee 13-1, with Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, the only panel member to vote against it. The Senate hearing on companion bill SB 411 was held Feb. 28. AB 502 and SB 411 promote steel jaw traps and cable restraints, night hunting from roads and shining lights to confuse the wolves. Bear hunters have been compensated from the Wolf License Plate Funds an average of $2,400/dog, for dogs killed when they terrorized our wildlife. Richard Thiel, a DNR wildlife biologist for 34 years, created and managed the wolf recovery plan for much of 1980-2011.
It's Coyote Killing Time Once Again. Calling All Wolf Warriors… This is the hardest post I’ve ever written, starting over more times than I can count, wanting to get it right. I won’t be pulling any punches. The Wolf as a Predator: Wolf Control. The wolf kills to eat. And it is the wolf’s status as a predator that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of wolves at the hands of humans. The two prime areas of conflict are the wolf’s status as a habitual predator of big game and as an occasional predator of livestock.In the United States, federal Animal Damage Control guidelines define predator control as “control…directed toward less desirable species which are depressing populations of more desirable species.”
CLEARLY MAN HAS DEEMED THAT THE WOLF BE OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED AS “LESS DESIRABLE.”It is unfortunate that both Canis Lupus and Homo Sapiens sometimes seek the same prey.