EASTERN WA, OR REPS CALL FOR WOLF DELISTING ACROSS NORTHWEST

In Protect The Wolves by Lynda1 Comment

Congressman from Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon were among those signing a letter this week to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service calling for the full delisting of gray wolves in the Lower 48. U.S. Reps Cathy McMorris-Rogers and Doc Hastings of the former state and Greg Walden of the latter were among 72 other members of the lower and …

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Wolf specialist Diane Boyd: ‘You have to make it work in the middle’ 

In Protect The Wolves, Protect Yellowstones Wolves, Sacred Resource Protection Zone by TwowolvesLeave a Comment

  Our National Parks Need Our Sacred Resource Protection Zone! A lot of people talk about the important role federal and state lands play in protecting wolves. But Diane Boyd, a wolf and carnivore specialist, said those public landscapes often are at high elevation and don’t harbor wintering populations of deer and elk. In fact, the scientist said Wednesday that wolves …

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Wildlife Services’ deadly force opens Pandora’s box of environmental problems 

In Ban Grazing Allotments, Protect The Wolves, Sacred Resource Protection Zone by Twowolves1 Comment

Bringing an Older Article back to the front again. Wildlife Services’ deadly force opens Pandora’s box of environmental problems By Tom Knudson – tknudson@sacbee.com APRIL 30, 2012 12:00 AM UPDATED OCTOBER 08, 2014 10:35 AM Second of three parts Like the prow of a ship, the Granite Mountains rise sharply from the creamy-white playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. …

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PFOP: Settlers waged war of extinction against wolves 

In Oppose Welfare Ranching, Protect The Wolves, Sacred Resource Protection Zone by Twowolves1 Comment

In the spring of 1830, Ephraim Scudder Myers settled near the large timbered tract in eastern McLean County known as Cheney’s Grove. Like most of his pioneer neighbors, he waged a pitiless war of extermination against the wolf. “Mr. Myers formerly kept seven hounds to hunt wolves and gave them plenty of business,” reads his biographical sketch in a history …