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The gray wolf will soon be officially taken off the endangered species list in Wyoming, triggering new debates about how humans and wolves will coexist.
In 86 percent of the state, there's no question -- they're predators. This means that anyone, anywhere may shoot a wolf on sight, no permit required.
At issue is whether hunters may take aim at wolves in the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, a 240-square-mile strip that connects Yellowstone to Grand Teton national parks. The state of Wyoming wants wolf hunts; the National Parks Service does not.
Culling elk has been allowed in the parkway and at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. Wolves will have the same status as elk, but the park service feels squeamish allowing a species fresh off the endangered list to be hunted. Take the poll to have your say and read more at the link below.
Wolves now labeled 'predators' in Wyoming
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So what part of the idea of Parks don't people get?
Maybe helicopter shoots and snares strangling wolves would be a big tourist attraction in Yellowstone.
What figures are you citing? "In 87% of the state they're predators". According to whom? Last I read on your population census of registered hunters, they only comprise less than 1% of your national population. So HOW, does this "less than 1% of the population" seem to have soooo much political pull with your US Congress and Senators? I think, even to the uneducated the answer is pretty obvious. Someone(s) pocket(s) are getting lined. So here then, in this poll, open to the GENERAL PUBLIC, only 4.6% are for it. A whopping almost 98% are against it...1.5% undecided. What is the issue? What is the debate? There is none. I also think, the bigger question to ask is: "Should the inhumane, barbaric use of leghold traps be outlawed and illegal to use and punishable by hefty fines and revocation of licenses". THAT ANSWER SHOULD BE AN OVERWHELMING 100% ---- YES.
Aldo Leopold said,
"Some students of natural history want no predator control at all, while many hunters and farmers want as much as they can get up to complete eradication. Both extremes are biologically unsound….”
As much as people scream and yell it's a biologic necessity to have predator control, as true now as when Leopold wrote those words. The largest migrating elk herd on the planet has been decimated dropping 80% and it might well vanish. Extinct. America's Serengeti without animals.
President Obama went to Yellowstone as a kid, he remembers the wonder of vast herds of elk. Now there is nothing. Having diverse species including large predators in an ecosystem is great, but it must be done with care and scientific management. Hunters once wiped out most of the animals in America, now so called environmentalists are doing the same in the name of loving them to death.
ABSOLUTELY NOT! They shouldn't be hunted ANYWHERE! It's ignorant and damaging to our ecosystem, but try to tell that to moronic hunters and INTENTIONALLY IGNORANT RANCHERS.
This witch hunt MUST END!
Stop killing the wolves anywhere!!! PERIOD!!!!!
Carl Sagan said "how smart does an animal have to be when killing him becomes murder?" these so-called "marksmen" are nothing but neckless, brainless murderers. so let's save the cattle from wolves who kill to eat so we can slaughter them in the slaughter houses so the poor rancher and middle-man can financially profit. these filthy murdering in-breds who pull the trigger and the filth who arrange this slaughter are the lowest things on the food chain
That is total bull@!$%# they have fences and wolves were here first !!
I am at a lost for words....such a travesty.....It saddens me to think people treat animals like this!!
Way to go Pam, well said. I saw the pictures of the ranchers herd going through the forest trees, really, what happened to keeping the herds in pastures. The wolves are more apt to be in the forest than the pastures so the ranchers are just asking for trouble.A place for everything and everything in it's place.
Well said Pam. I saw the pictures of the ranchers herd in the forest where the wolves are, which is just asking for trouble. Keep the herds in the pastures and the wolves will be more apt to leave them alone. You know, a place for everything and everything in its place. If the rancher would of worked with the Department of Fish & Wildlife maybe this travesty could of been stopped, I just think the rancher wanted to kill the wolves and be done with it.