For Immediate Release: July 6, 2017
Questions can be directed to:
Protect The Wolves™
Patricia Herman or Roger Dobson at 530-377-3031
Protect The Wolves™ is meeting with Wyoming to work towards a Sacred Resource Protection Zone surrounding National Parks with Director Talbott, Wyoming Game and Fish.
Wyoming Game and Fish Department & Protect the Wolves™
Casper Regional Office, 3030 Energy Lane, Casper, WY 82604
July 17, 2017
9:00-11:00 AM
Participants:
Wyoming Game and Fish: Scott Talbott
Protect The Wolves™: Patricia Herman Pres. Roger Dobson, CEO; Deidre Bainbridge, J.D.,Vicki Markus, Protect the Wolves;
Doug Smith, Eric Molvar, Sergio Maldonado
Purpose: Effective Protection and Preservation of Sacred Wolf Resources
Agenda:
- Overview: Native American Spiritual connections with Sacred Wildlife.
- Erosions/Circumventing of Grey Wolf Hunting Regulations and Wolf Management Plan:
The use of Pup Calls and Bear Bait have resulted in unintended risks and taking of Grey Wolfs.
Interstate poacher herding intended to circumvent Wyoming State Laws.
Killing of Radio Collared Grey Wolves compromises effective WGF data collection.
Establish a cross-species understandable 50 km Sacred Resource Protection Zone around Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Enhance the effective implementation of the Wolf Management Plan and Gray Wolf Hunting Seasons regulations by establishing game management areas that are in alignment with the sensory capacities of the Grey Wolf.
The Grey Wolf Management Plan must include protection of the Grey Wolf in the National Elk Refuge toward the preservation of the existing ecosystem homeostasis that allows for the natural culling of the Elk herd.
- Shoot on site policy vs clarification based on predatory hunting of domestic livestock.
- Provide for public individual commissioner comment regarding the petition for consideration of the Sacred Resource Protection Zone at the July 19, 2017 Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Meeting.
- What Hunting Season or Big Game designations applies to tribal fee lands? How has that been communicated to the general public and hunters?
- Interest and Applicability of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 27 U.S.T. 108).
- In what way can Tribal Communities assist the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in the effective preservation of Sacred Wildlife Resources?
- Implementation & Next Steps
Comments
Thanks for speaking to WY!
Good that you have Doug smith along, who has seen the growth and fall to balance of the wolves in Yellowstone – he knows that wolf populations will level off after reaching ecologically effective numbers naturally.
He knows that they enrich the land where they live, helping everything from songbirds and migratory animals, antierosion beavers, and the whole living systems to return.
The bullet-crazed people don’t understand this in the least, even though they are about the only humans that “game” and fish agencies listen to.
I hear that YNPis turning the Stevens Creek bison pens into places they can check out buffalo for brucellosis. The bison want to head down from the Yellowstone plateau to winter habitat in all the directions, too. Once, as you might know, the wolf and the humans worked together to get food from the herds, although little to nothing is written of that cooperation.
Brucellosis is originally carried by the european cattle, and the Elk caught and transmit it.
Some of the loss of wolves in recent years was due to other diseases introduced by domestic dogs who were not well taken care of: Mange (Sarcoptes scabei) was brought intentionally by wolfhaters in the past century and a half. Canine distemper and Parvovirus (which emerged – meaning evolved – only in the mid-20th century in domestic dogs, again where they were crowded together in domestic raising methods) have been known to kill off families of wolves. This is due to bringing too many dogs to all the lowland valleys – winter habitat – that humans took completely over in the mountain west.
Hope you can convince the Absaroka and Eastern Shoshone to welcome the return of Wolf!
Stop all killing poisoning hinting trapping &get read of all welfare ranchers from all federal lands it’s not theirs to destroy