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Colville Reservation: CCT set to vote on North Half wolf hunting season, 

In Oppose Welfare Ranching, Protect The Wolves, Sacred Species by Twowolves2 Comments

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CCT I hope you have your ducks in a row, with your i’s dotted and tees crossed. If not, be prepared to hear from Protect The Wolves™ that still carries on your Traditional Elders Beliefs. Some of Your Younger Tribal council members have offended your very own Tribal Elders…. some of which have told us that you have shamed them for not staying on the path of the People….  The True Human Beings! They have gone as far to say you have been infected by the White Mans Greed….. and No you cant just make this stuff up…. Talk to your “REAL” Traditional Elders… you’ll not like their truths We have, and we agree with their want to preserve our Culture, and take care of our environment in a good way! CTFW director Randy Friedlander, is showing just the above mentioned attitude…… hes afraid the white man is going to use up their numbers of slaughtering our Sacred Species…. Tribes do not need people like him watching over Our Sacred Resources….

Justus Caudell/Tribal Tribune

NESPELEM – In January when the Colville Business Council voted unanimously to approve a Gray Wolf Management Plan on the Colville Reservation, wildlife managers had decided to wait on creating hunting regulations on the North Half of the Colville Reservation, according to CTFW director Randy Friedlander.

The Colville tribes had opened gray wolf hunting within the reservation three years previous and only months before, in November, the first wolf harvest was reported.

Now Thursday, CBC will vote on an amendment put forth by CTFW to add a North Half wolf-hunting season to the previously approved plan.

“That will incorporate the ability for a Colville tribal member to hunt wolves in the North Half,” said Friedlander in CBC’s Natural Resource Committee, Tuesday.

The Colville tribes share management of wildlife with state agencies on the North Half of the reservation.

“I think we’re aware of the state. The state has a wolf management plan… Their plan does allow for lethal removal of wolves if they have so many depredations on cows. I think right now there are two packs on the North Half that fall within that category… Potentially, if the state goes up and shoots multiple wolves, they may use up what we consider our allowable harvest.”

The North Half wolf season is similar to the management of wolves on the Colville Reservation. The gray wolf management plan calls for human-harvest quota of wolves to be between 20 and 24 percent of the animal’s annual population.

State wildlife managers have listed the wolf population on the North Half to be 16, CTFW’s Rich Whitney told CBC, but if the state kills any wolves for depredation concerns the quota may drop.

An allocation table attached as an appendix to the plan suggests if the population is between zero and nine wolves on the reservation, no hunting should be permitted, but if there are 10 wolves, CTFW regulations should permit killing one. If there are, 13 wolves, the table suggests an allocation of three, which would be 23.1 percent of the overall population.

CTFW staff suggested the hunt will be similar to other North Half hunts, requiring a transport tag from CTFW.

Source: WA: Colville Reservation: CBC set to vote on North Half wolf hunting season, Thursday | Timber Wolf Information Network

Comments

  1. I love the wolves their being so careful in the wild. Afraid of people I sure hope they are all saved! They are a magnificent animal and I love them so much! I have seen two of them I gave them water. Such a pretty sight!

  2. I’ve known for a decade of the Colville Rez intent to kill wolves, and hpe that protect the WOlves can do some clear identification of WHO , WHY, and WHAT IT’s all about.
    I had previously believed that the Confederated tribes were related to a tribe or two in BC that are the only indigenous North Americans to hate wolves, and have avoided mentioning this problem – in part because Canada’s Provinces engage in war against wolves.

    I do remember that even the cattle farmers who were Ojibwa, pushed against the tradition of them – the People who most regard the wolf as relative and friend. I remember the Pawnee, who were original plains people, who respected the wolf, but who still hunted them. This kind of thing tends to have caused me to only favor individuals. There were some anti-wolf words spoken in recent ties by some Apaches – again this going against the expressed tradition.

    Once, wen a few or one stood against any important tradition, they tended to leave the community. This is why we find the very spotty pattern of peoples who speak a language.
    But now there is no place to separate.
    The Colville Federation may as the article’s writer implied, just want to cash in on all the white wolf-haters in Idaho. From Ojibwe point of view, this would be like offering pot shots at your cousins for money. Please find out who has so long pressed for this killing, and ask them to explain. What do the nongovernment people of the federation think?

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