PEOPLE We have to agree on one thing!! These threats from CPOW need shut down! We have the research for fighting against the total banning grazing…. This very grazing is destroying the Environment we have to leave to Our Children’s Children! What do you intend to do about it? Will the Masses allow a few Old West Mentality Ranchers continue issuing threats or will you take action?
PREDATORS MUST BE MANAGED:
No citizen should be forced to allow predators of any kind to kill or maim his flocks, herds, pets, small animals, and in some cases—his family or loved ones.
Since the state or federal government claim ownership or management of these predators, they should be responsible for removing any predator that violates this basic principal.
If these governing bodies are unable or unwilling to perform this requirement, then it becomes the obligation of the county sheriff to perform this task.
If the sheriff is unwilling or unable to accomplish this obligation, then it becomes the right and the duty of the affected citizens to accomplish this very necessary mission.
Source: CATTLE PRODUCERS OF WASHINGTON | Working for the cow-calf producer
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I am no longer certain if reprints like this reflect the policies of “Protect the Wolves” or not.
As I just donated to this organization, in spite of the very Wyoming-like antiwolf-reading manifesto generated by some type of tribal group claiming to speak for all or some native indigenous, again without comment or critique – even though it expressly mentioned the “rights” of some humans or others to “remove” or kill wolves upon their own whims, it looks at times as if there is some implicit support by this org. for such policies.
While I did not donate very much, as many of us are not wealthy, I have always tried to limit my donations to those groups who are willing to live with an equal respect for the wolf as they would expect for themselves, whether in normal or when feeling offended or put upon in some way.
Although I cannot ask for return of this donation, until a firmer statement of intent and alignment is made by this organization here, I would like to remind everyone that the wolf has always had the natural courtesy to allow humans to live sharing the landscape.
They are not long-term strategic thinker, having been made in a different way, responsive to the changes that occur around them, and having a natural individual integrity as adults that cause them to be more personally wary and courteous (after all, they do not have helicopter rescues and masses fo physicians to attend their every injury.
Neither do they involve themselves in stewing about retribution, or have special police wolves to extinguish the humans who kill them for pleasure, profit, or hate.
What we see, both in the tribal manifesto and in the position of domestic animal incarcerators and users, is a praticularly and hideously offensive evil. There is no other way to describe this canicidal and genocidal impulse, for every slight.
We see no fat wolves.
They are made for the purpose of balancing the herbivores and the copious mesopredators on the landscape; wolves contribute to diversity and health, whether through direct taking of the unhealthy and excess (wherever on animal or plant becomes excessive in nature, and thus inhibits the necessary safety of diversity, nature opens up a niche for others to limit it.
Were it not for predators, the plants of earth could not survive (See HHS “Green World Hypothesis” and subsequent work for a deep look at this)
Humans mostly refuse to admit that there are too many humans now, taking too much, covering the land with too much permanent capping preventing connectivity and regrowth of the other beings who just by being, deserve an equal respect.
When “Protect the Wolves” prints such manifestos as the two recent ones I mention, without critique or comment, it makes it appear that they are either eager to compromise, or actually fully approve of the contents.
In either of the latter two cases, those of us who have reason to prefer, love, and respect the wolf and their undisputed presence on this earth (which I remind you, was theirs before the coming of humans – the wolf appears to have originally evolved in North America, from one from whom both coyote and wolf sprung) spreading long ago to Eurasia, attaining a larger size, while a heavier, larger wolf continued to develop and occupy North America (Its common name recently became too popular in a ridiculous popular fantasy, and so I will not use that name)
I awoke this morning thinking of the wild places and the wolf who chose me , and the impossible rarity of that meeting and his firm and determined choice. He was a big wolf, and we sometimes had to run through thick pathless country to evade humans who felt lethally offended by his being, his nature, or just some habit of his.
I MUST, because of his choice, side with him and all his kind, a few others of whom I met and watched closely. They were, as I said, naturally courteous to humans, giving way if possible. I cannot ever support any individual or group of humans who deny the equal validity and right of the wolf. I would prefer that “Protect the Wolves” consistently affirm their position, whatever it may be, because, like the wolf, I know that humans are quite fickle and can change to violence, even toward those they purport to love and respect.
The wolf does not do this. The young may test and test, but the adult wolf makes a decision about another individual, and seeks to preserve any amicable relationship. (I do not speak of sexual interaction, for that is a necessary evaluative choice about which we cannot know much)
The wolves I have seen, met, or knew, are wary of any being with whom they are not intimate, who they have not directly interacted with to know. I suggest that humans choose this way, in this case, because the outcomes can be lethal to the wolf.
I would really like to observe reaffirmation of Protect the Wolves’ actual position,, when publishing such material as this and the tribal manifesto espousing exactly the states’rights-type assertion that they can eliminate the wolf if they so choose (read it in full, and you will see)
I will not for my lifetime support any such pretension to such a “right”, or to support any group who will.
Long ago, I differed in this way with relatives who both pretended to respect tradition but who instead fed money into the evil missionary schools and religion that ruined the two tribes. I also walked with young Paiutes who sought learning of their own ways, but whose father said they only needed that book and that religion that forever divides us from our relatives.
All those who walk that way of division and eternal retribution for the wolf taking what is merely their need and purpose in great life, are to be avoided until they learn that that way, their choice to cut off themselves and others from life itself, does not make them healthy to walk with. And that way is not good or healthy for any other of the beings of Earth.
It is important the I do not give to those who go that way,
Please read:
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2017/07/31/collaboration-leads-to-dead-wolves/
It is a viewpoint on those groups and individuals who compromise with “stakeholders” and agricultural advocacy about wolves.
By these ranchers you probably mean the few in North east Washington state. There are ranchers out there that make a sincere effort to co-exist and to a large degree of success. Those negligent ranchers who simply put their cows out into the wild and expect nothing to happen should not have grazing permits. Those ranchers who purposely put down salt blocks near denning wolves should be charged with conspiracy to extract money from the state Those ranchers who threaten or attempt to blackmail university boards should be jailed for just that. These people are starting to look like a criminal organization or are the wolves doing all if this? Of course all you’ll get are crocodile tears from those few ranchers and a ton of denial. Would also be nice if they were proactive about clearing up their carcasses that died from who knows what. Don’t forget wolf depredation is less than 2 percent of cattle losses yet these guys try to make it look like it’s the end of the world…what rubbish.
Yes There are Good Ranchers out there, Even 1 that we spoke with in Colville 😉 Great Point on the Salt Blocks, I will bring that up to our Attorneys !
Notice the reference to the “county sheriff”? This is classic “sovereign citizen” lingo. Shades of the Bundy gang! Going to this organization’s (CATTLE PRODUCERS OF WASHINGTON ) website if find that they are so extreme that they pulled out of the Washington Advisory Group (WAG) several years ago. CPOW is the most retrograde of the retrograde.
Yes it is. This Rancher Mentality needs to be brought into the 21st century…