Protect The Wolves

Feds release weak funding for wolf, rancher programs to help with Predation

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Protect The Wolves

900,000 in Grants Nationwide for dead cows, yet Millions to Slaughter them from Helicopters…. Seems they’d save more money on the Backend, if they spent a bit more on the Front where it Matters 😉 with Deterrents

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its latest round of funding to help ranchers affected by or living near wolves earlier this month.

Nationwide, the grants amount to $900,000. One-third of that money will go toward projects in Arizona and New Mexico.

The Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wolf Livestock Demonstration Grant Program offers two types of matching, competitive grants to states and tribes. One compensates livestock owners when wolves are proven to have killed their animals. The other helps fund projects to prevent those conflicts from happening in the first place.

The initiative was created through the 2009 Wolf Livestock Loss Mitigation Act, introduced by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. The funding, about a million dollars each year, comes out of the federal agency’s species recovery budget.

Mexican gray wolves were hunted, poisoned and trapped out of existence in the southwestern United States by the 1970s. After about two decades of planning, in 1998 the agency and its state and tribal partners released 11 animals they’d raised in captivity into the Gila National Forest.

By 2015, the number grew to about 100 wolves living within the 4.4 million acre recovery area, which includes parts of New Mexico and Arizona. The population, which was supposed to have reached 100 by 2006, has faced a number of challenges—including from a relatively small number of ranchers and local officials who remain vocally opposed to the wolf reintroduction program.

 

Source: Feds release latest funding for wolf, rancher programs | The NM Political Report

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