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If Depredations can be reduced near Yellowstone they can be in Washington State as well.

In Oppose Welfare Ranching, Protect The Wolves, Protect The Wolves by Twowolves1 Comment

 

protect washington wolves, profanity peak slaughter, protect the wolves

Washington State Ranchers need to dump their typical 1800s old west mentality for a more successful proven way…. Paying for 2 possible kills $65-67,000 needs to stop! Martorello needs to Go or come into modern times where non-lethal is not only more effective, but far less expensive as studies have shown. Martorello also needs to loose the “Special Interest Cattle Ranchers and Trophy Hunting Groups” need to be removed from the Wolf Advisory Group!

Successfully reducing cattle kills

Alongside Range Riders and low stress handling, Hibbard also uses wildlife tracking and flagging to deter predators, like wolves, at his ranch north of Yellowstone National Park. It’s part of the Tom Miner Basin, where a similar situation between wolves, grizzly bears and cattle played out years ago.

Hibbard works cattle alongside fellow rancher and wolf biologist, Hilary Anderson. Over the last two decades, their community has used low stress methods, wildlife tracking, flagging and range riders to bring the number of cattle kills in their region to nearly zero.

“The people who didn’t like wolves before, they still don’t like wolves,” Anderson said. “It’s just that instead of feeling that they were a victim, they’re moving into a place where they do feel support, they do feel they have resources and there’s a sense of empowerment.”

Those methods are also becoming popular in California. But, Hibbard said it’s a total lifestyle change for ranchers.

“They basically have to admit, as I did—and that’s why I resisted it for several years too—was that what ‘geez, i spent more than three decades learning and getting good at, was basically wrong.”

Range Riders are in particularly high demand in Northeast Washington, because that region is home to nearly 85 percent of the state’s wolf population.

But, Scotten said local ranchers are disappointed and dismayed by the potential for a repeat of last summer’s events.

Source: Ranchers, Range Riders Brace For Another Grazing Season Among Wolves | KUOW News and Information

Comments

  1. Both the Profanity Peak Pack and the Wedge Pack on the Coleville Reservation were lethally managed by WDFW, and the Wdge Pack killing was done without consulting the Coleville Reservation. I’m not sure if Coleville assented to the Profanity Peak killing.

    The problem we really have with wolf management, is that lethal means are used because they are efficient and they appeal to those who enjoy both “sport” and problem-solving through killing.
    All over wolf country, this supposedly cheap and efficient manner is the primary way used to interact with the wolf.
    While native North Americans did to some extent kill wolves for certain psychological purposes, the use of guns and poisons as management came with a culture having no ecological relationship with the world it now occupies.

    There will not be peace unless and until the resort to lethal management is outlawed by statute.
    Durinng the short period of recovery to a number chosen for sociopolitical reasons – to assuage the fears of those who occupied the land during the period when wolves were eradicated and during legal eradication, wolves were temporarily safe.
    But the general public was not well informed as to the necessity for wolves, and worse, remains as a culture, rather hierarchical in its values – anything offering difficulties in gaining financial profit, and anything not seeming to contribute to profit are negatively valued.

    So wolves are at both legal and cultural disadvantage.

    As we have seen in the recent Water Protectors issue over in North Dakota, ecological and alternative cultural views are disregarded without any consideration whatsoever (unless groups favoring healthy ecosystems and the lives of individual other animals than human become powerful).

    there ARE many teachers of early grades in schools who do or are eager to use materials to teach a more inclusive and compassionate relationship. But parental modeling of compassionate inclusion of all life remain rare outside the philosophies of most North American indigenous (not all, because of individuals and at least one BC tribe vilifying the wolf above other organisms).

    Right now I know of one group that seeks to place packages of information about wolves into instructors’ hands – Living With Wolves, in Ketchum Idaho.
    Some supposed pro-wolf organizations acquiesce too much to those mistaken ideas of lethal management, claiming that science should rule, when in fact a large majority of wolf scientists do NOT favor lethal response as valid for either practical or ethical reasons.

    Washington, when polled within the last dozen years showed lower suburban public tolerance. This would very likely be due to poor or no information about wolves.

    So, we have three major sources of wolf intolerance:
    Ignorance
    Human cultural dissociation from the other life of earth
    Lethally permissive laws arising from that ignorance, intolerance, and failure of inclusion of nonhuman life in personal morality and law.

    The teaching of economics persists in imagining externalization of costs. This is due to limits of the human mind, and is an inaccuracy so profound that ecologists have been attacking it for decades,, even as those externalized costs are now coming due, not merely to humans, but to all life on earth.

    With that realization, we’re back to education.

    Adults are very cemented in their ways due to some processes with which we can’t easily deal in comment, but which I had to learn about in order to more fully understand adult resistance to their own extreme sociopathy and psychopathy – for this is the #1 characteristic that pulls the trigger on wolves.

    Adults CAN change their actions, can open to better ways to live in harmony with the other life of earth, BUT the most common way they learn to refrain is through the morality of their children.

    While Tribes have little funding for outreach, if the wolf can be included in the wider public community, it WILL increase inclusion of long-tested indigenous ecological understanding AND greater respect for the social parity. Not all of the present culture’s norms and beliefs are better than those by which we lived in the long past, and too many have been absorbed by native peoples.

    One caution remains: that Evergreen College exclusionary BS is not appropriate, just as aren’t governmental ideas of eminent domain over local habitat integrity.

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