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Environmentalists want new wolf recovery plan
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Grouse Creek and East of Kanab would be great places to start wolf reintroduction. Obama will lose votes over it. :-)
Being a veteran myself, I know Clinton and Obamacon also did dodge the draft. And the draft would kill off more liberals, they are to stupid to duck. As a Republican I to don't want liberal's and their socialist people, who benefit from my tax dollars, going to educate their kids about being a good LiL socialist. Therefore, again I say, it's time the US brought-back The Draft, if for anything else, to clean up our US gene genetic pool of these liberal's and their breeding the species of more, take THEM all off the minority Endangered Species Act they created, because they need to be sorted out a little more carefully, as the "save the planet subspecies" reintroducing themself, generation after generation, through Biological Diversity, compromising our species' of normal people, with their genetic liberal failure's lie's and socialism. Right in The White House as well as in Obamacon's Cabinet would be a GREAT PLACE to start wolf reintroduction. NEVER SEND a sheep, to kill a wolf, when it takes a "REAL MAN" to do that job, and "GIT-R-DONE!". :-)
We really don't need any more wolves running around our back yards destroying our deer and elk herds which provide us with some great benefits do we?????Let the wolves multiply in Canada and Alaska where they have to trap them to keep nature in balance. They are great reproducers.
Wolves would still be an asset in only some parts of the West, those areas where there is a sufficient prey base and a minimum of development. I don't think East of Kanab would be a promising place, but the Book Cliffs or Uintas would.
Johnson Canyon has a nice corridor to the north where wolfs could travel. The old state highway run up the canyon years ago. If you ever drive up this canyon you will see an old sign painted on the rock.
I was Joking. Limbaugh would be a liberal in Kanab.
#1: I am only able to hunt maybe one week a year and can only "harvest" one animal if I can. Wolves hunt 365 days a year and kill one animal each week on average. That's 52 animals per wolf. 50 wolves will take more animals that all the hunters in the state do in an entire year. 60 wolves will cause recuitment problems-(the prey will reproduce slower than the numbers killed). This is happening in other western states.
#2: I pay for the privledge to hunt with my license and tags purchases and the money is used to restore and protect wildlife habitat (all wildlife, not just big game). My money also benefits other non hunters by keeping wildlife health and strong. Wolves do not improve wildlife habitat and they prey mostly on the young. Wolves from a wildlife economics standpoint are not sustainable. Ask Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Hunters shooting for a big rack or a lot of meat, once a year, cannot match that.
#1:Hunters have been around for millions of years, just like wolves (if you accept some theories of evolution) so to say that the wolf is more natural than hunters isn't true. Humans are just as "natural" as any other species. Hunting has evolved and and so have self imposed laws restricting hunters.
#2: Not everything "natural" should be appreciated. Diptheria is natural. So is AIDs and the black plague. The word, "natural" isn't always something we should revere as superior or more desirable.
#3: In nature, there really isn't any "right or wrong", there are only consequences. Man's presence has consequences just like the presence of wolves have consequences. The question is; given a choice, what consequences do we prefer? I prefer less wolves because of the consequences they bring just like I prefer less AIDs or polio in the world.
There was indeed hunting in Yellowstone before Europeans showed up, the same kind of hunting that occurred everywhere in Indian territory, and later by trappers and mountain men.
Aldo Leopold wrote an essay, "Thinking Like a Mountain", which addresses the point better than I could.
"I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps better the cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades."
We need wolves in wild places, precisely to control the ungulates.
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