Comments about ‘Utah Legislature: Senate Demos howl at plan to remove wolves from list’

Leave the wolves alone! It seems shamefully selfish and bloodthirsty to put man's interest in recreational killing of deer and elk above animals living as they are designed. Go hunting with your camera or sketch pad. Not need to kill animals with expensive artillery in order to enjoy them. For we Mormons, that has been a directive from the prophets for generations (hunt only for food), yet we still hunt for fun.

Ranchers know how to control this predator problem.

And it is not "sue, sue sue".

Let the wolf lovers adopt some and feed them on their own dime, not the livestock of ranchers, or pets of rural families, or our state's game animals.

Wolves in Montana and Idaho have been identified as carriers and spreaders of Echinococcus Granulosus. Why expose both wild and domestic animals to this parasite? E. G. also poses a threat to humans.

A little common sense would go a long way here. Senator Christensen claims that wolves will essentially wipe out elk and deer. If they were prone to do that, they would have gone extinct eons ago.

Wolves are essential to wild Utah. The Beehive State is withered husk without wolves keeping the elk and deer populations in check--and on the move. Return the wolves. Restore the balance.

Take from this what you will;
I once went on a spring round-up with a person who owned an expansive cattle ranch. We each had rifles, and when I was about to shoot a coyote (thinking it would endanger young calves), he stopped me, and said "yes coyotes do endanger young calves, but they also eat a lot of jack rabbits". When the population of rabbits was high he left Coyotes alone, and concentrated on rabbits which eat too much vegetation which the cattle need. When the population of rabbits went down then coyotes were fair game, and he left the rabbits alone.

The federal government is wrong to not allow the state to implement their own management plan. We need this bill to get our states rights back. Wolves need to be kept in balance with other species.

Humans are predators. Despite Disney portraying them as cute little babies, they make their living by killing other animals. Humans do not have any more right to kill elk than any other predator. The elk were not put there just for humans to use for killing.
No one in the general public, Fish, Wildlife and Parks, or the Federal Government owes anyone an elk to kill for sport.
Any one who kills for sport should learn about what a complete environment and ecosystem need for a healthy planet.
What we do not need is more ignorance and fear. The wolves will not kill all the elk.
Why do some humans think that anyone owes them a game animal for sport?
Humans need to be kept in balance with other species

About a yr or so ago I checked the feds census regarding livestock losses. [Fish & Wildlife or USDA,not certain.] Losses to natural predators was far down the list. At the top by many powers was GI conditions and birthing problems. Also, of predator kills, wolves were well behind man's best friend, Fido, and others. Agree with Carolyn. Disagree with Jimmy5: neither wild animals nor natural habitats recognize state borders. The natural world is borderless. I may not reside in Utah but it is still part of my country and I am free to go there. Therefore laws for wildlife and natural areas management are ultimately a federal responsibility.
S-S-S's comments are simply ridiculous.

The simple truth is that animals are put on the endangered species list in the first place in order to ensure that management plans are created that will help the populations recover to a level that is healthy for the entire ecosystem. The goal is to get them off that list. If Utah can honestly promise that their plan will be effective in achieving that goal then I say I'm all for it. However, just because some ignorant politician who doesn't know the difference between a coyote's yip and wolf's howl says he "knows" there are healthy populations of wolves in the state doesn't mean it's the truth. Until the federal government - which has managed to successfully engineer the return of many species previously on the brink of extinction - says that they believe the species is healthy enough in Utah to be turned over to the state's management, the state has no right to try and force their hand. It was this same sort of bickering over states rights vs. centralized federal power that started the Civil War and nobody wants to be reminded how that worked out.