Sherriff Maycumber didnt ask Protect The Wolves

Sherriff Maycumber didnt ask Protect The Wolves®

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Sherriff Maycumber didnt ask Protect The Wolves

Maycumber did not ask Protect The Wolves®(406-219-8690) He is pushing fairytales.. “Not a one of them, even their most diehard advocates, have been able to look me in the eye and tell me (the wolf) wouldn’t take that kid,” Maycumber said. Maycumber is no different than Blankenship… they both need to be replaced. He seems to want to insist on instilling False unfounded fear not based on fact!

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — A tracker will monitor parts of Ferry County, Wash., where wolves and people could interact, including school bus routes, the local sheriff says.

County Sheriff Ray Maycumber said he’s concerned about a scenario in which wolves are chasing prey and come across a child waiting for the morning school bus.

Maycumber said state wildlife managers haven’t satisfied him that the possibility doesn’t exist.

He spoke during the annual Cattle Producers of Washington meeting on Oct. 29.

“Not a one of them, even their most diehard advocates, have been able to look me in the eye and tell me (the wolf) wouldn’t take that kid,” Maycumber said. He said he told state wildlife officials, “Knowing everything we know about the situation, should the unlikely scenario occur … all the knowledge we have will be used to bury us.”

Statistics don’t support a wolf attacking people, “but a hungry animal will do things that are non-typical,” Maycumber said. “When there’s nothing to eat up there, I tend not to put a lot of faith in the words of the department, who says, ‘They’ll just live on grouse,’” he told the ranchers.

Maycumber deals with the Profanity Peak wolfpack, which has at least 10 confirmed kills and five probable kills of cattle.

The state killed six adult wolves and one pup in the pack. A second pup may have died of natural causes. One adult female and two to three pups remain.

State experts told Maycumber the remaining wolves are not likely to attack cattle. But with the pack’s social structure “shattered,” their behavior is difficult to predict, he said.

Maycumber said he is “becoming quite an irritation” to the Department of Fish and Wildlife and outlined several of his frustrations:

• On delisting the wolves in the eastern one-third of the state: “My opinion is we’d be much better off if they never would have delisted them, because Wildlife Services has a lot more streamlined process and are a lot more aggressive when they remove problem wolves.”

• On the state wolf plan: “I’ve looked over their plan and I don’t know what the purpose was unless it was just to cause chaos, because that’s where we’re at.”

• On the wolf-cattle interface: “In some cases they say wolves can peacefully exist with cows. Well, only until they get hungry.”

• “I shouldn’t have to be at odds with the Department of Fish and Wildlife,” he said. “I’ve tried not to be at odds, I’m just trying to get them to do their jobs in an effective, consistent manner.”

Source: Capital Press

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