Weak Response from Martorello regarding our Text Messages to him

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   July 24, 2017 Log in to Reply

   MM

   Dear Roger and Patricia:
   How can Protect the Wolves gain whatever standing needed for WDFW to choose, instead of lethal management, to allow PtW to capture and relocate the wolves to a secure facility?

   While I do not personally feel that a lifetime of captivity is the best response to native wildlife acting in normal ways on its native continent, as any private grazing of privstely “owned” livestock is the egregious wrong, WDFW policies must be realigned to the larger public, rather than continuing to support any use of remaining public lands for the benefit of those who act politically to prevent wildlife survival.

   Economic mandates must not be the province or preference of public lands. The argument that immigrants (whether or not first appearing 170 years ago) should have preferential usage of public lands for personal or group economic gain over the WHOLE public trust, would seem to be specious, and obviously should not be a management goal.

   Yet, from New Mexico to Washington and Alaska, this is somehow the rule.

   Since the native wolf, bear, mountain lion, coyote, cannot live any other way than in their natural behavior and cognitive manner, it would seem obvious that their populations should have preference over those who seek to profit through using the natural ecosystems for personal economic gain.

   Mr. Martorello is captive to regulations set by public commissions and law. I also feel that he should present EVERY nonlethal option as preferred over lethal, to his ruling commission. I do not know if he can lobby them, as he may be mere employee.

   Is there some way in which PtW and the public can find out if he or any other wolf management employee can officially favor nonlethal options to “depredation?” He is very likely subject to dismissal and replacement, and policy change very likely must come (at this point) from Washington statute.

   I think I’ve previously said that at least the last two federal administrations have been aggressively promoting beef export. The USDA has had an email program informing the public since 2009. This kind of economic pressure favoring federal public lands grazing over preservation of the last native natural ecosystems available for protection by the whole of the public, would appear to be government engaging in a program – grazing – causing direct loss to the public as a whole.
   The federal government also engages in the international agreements creating this cattle/beef trade.
   The program pushes all state legislatures to perhaps greedily seek the destruction of every plant and animal not enhancing the private profiteers; GDP, a measure of social advantage, is assessed through exclusively adding private profit, automatically subtracting actually nonexistent “losses” from native natural predators.

   Certain ranchers, such as Ted Turner, whose private “properties” from Montana to New Mexico are managed to allow wolf presence are, I suppose, a structure which present governance supports.
   Although I’ve visited and support a facility that is licensed to reproduce Canis lupus baileyi for wild release, I do so only because they also work to help reestablish the larger, Northern subspecies on public lands. I do not find lifetime captivity to be the answer to execution.

   At present, it seems that state agencies everywhere require confinement in order to allow wolves to exist.
   I’m certain that others donate to several wolf, wildlife, and ecosystem preservation organizations, as I do.
   Perhaps it would be advantageous for an organization to pool such donations to purchase truly large tracts of land, returning them to resilient whole communities (the word for the living populations in an ecosystem), completely protected from human interference.

   I strongly feel that such implements as firearms, snowmobiles, and other motorized or technological tools used for “hunting” are inappropriate, even if used by indigenous human populations for the recent few hundred years.

   Some states have attempted to force privately held landowners to allow general public hunting and management, though, and this institutional intrusion along with the present extreme human overpopulation, merely perpetuates fighting for the lives of those others born to and dependent upon this beautiful continent up to 2 million years before the immigration, and even existence, of the animal we call human.

   In recent times, the concept of “zoos” has finally been expanded to slightly ethically better living situations for other lives equal in validity to any, yours or mine.
   Yet, every animal’s nature is to live freely, expanding their world to include up to all natural borders. This must be the only real goal, with all other considerations subject to it.

   Wolves are at present subject to the bullets, traps, and poisons of humans who hate, imagining them as valid targets for private frustrations, instead of the massively excessive human populations against which they can do nothing. So all who recognize wolves or any other wild, self-willed being (even trees are communal tribes recognizing one another and responding amicably to their own kind), are labeled as “enemy” by those who would lethally interact with all else that lives, because it is not in their nature to war back.
   Only strict law excluding humans who kill other humans prevents armed humans from directing their lethality upon those with whom they disagree, and it is the armed and frustrated who seek lethal means and caging, who impose this upon whomever remain unprotected by law.

   Original Man and Wolf, the Ojibwe remember, once walked together upon the earth, learning of all life. Then came a time when they no longer lived together; but we appear to have forgotten the caution of the wise:
   That what happens to one will also be the fate of the other.

   Before all the instruction of my own kind, something in me knew that I should neither kill nor cage out of fear or greed. Neither is necessary, unless for survival when there truly is no other option. I’ve stood when a bear bluff charged, and know through this and other encounters, that threat is conversation always about self-protection.
   It is intended to warn without violence, naturally communicating our equal, not superior, right to live.

   Our emotions, if carefully followed, cause us to prefer to move freely around others, giving sufficient space, even if those others are more or less powerful than are we.
   This is the goal of emotions – to allow noninterfering life. You will notice that some humans have become used to demanding more space, more resource than they truly need.
   Nights with the Wolf, I noted how he protected his food from Coyote. It was not about imagined futures or greed.

   It appears to me that Martorello is caught in a cage between the native wolf and the people who would take all. Unfortunately, his position is ruled by those, rather than being that of unbiased or generous decisionmaker. It is the biased, the selfish, who seek to kill and prevent the wolf’s existence in their home.

   This would appear to be a matter of shedding false educations, false senses of “ownership.” Not being directly subject to parents with such imagined superiority, I believe that it is not natural to us, and if somehow we can find ourselves, we can again find our natural courtesy of allowing other forms of life to exist in the world with us.

   Martorello would very likely adjust if those to whom he has subjected himself, were required to return to tolerance.

   Livestock in nature suffer some loss. Livestock penned safely as are chickens, pigs, live lives unnatural and cruelly limited.
   You will notice that humans demand absence of loss, to such an extent that they deny life to all else, cruelly crushing out those others, even gaining pleasure in doing so.

   This is not the way of life, although it has been brought by those who have created and use weapons and rules elevating self-interest above all, for a few lifetimes.

   Every day I search for the communications made by other lives. This now seems uncommon, even though it is basic to animals such as ourselves. With a society focused on contention and personal superiority over others, words are used like bullets, only for personal overlordship and gain.
   How do we strip away the falsehoods and selfishnesses both hidden and exposed by words?

   Most often denied, but clearly true, words are human methods of establishing relationships through which one gains power over contending others.
   Words, they glue and seal us into groups, for the sole purpose of manipulating other humans.

   I do not know of any remedy except speaking from the heart. There is a tree here, which those seeking relief for electrical connectivity, those seeking convenient entry for machines to their house, and one seeking the relief of shade for other plants, argue.
   I suddenly realized that no one loves the tree for its unique existence; no one has respect for that equal life. I do not fool myself that this will save the tree, but it is the only way to respect that individual life, which without love, will have been unknown to all, who instead will without exception regard it as impediment. This is a way of relating to life so unnatural that it has destroyed the capacities of all who choose it.

   It was not a parent or a culture that ever teaches life over seeing all as obstruction; but to me came a repeatedly escaping Wolf, who trusted and chose life firmly.
   I visit you because of this bond, originally enabled when senses originally opened around four years of age, hearing and seeing such life uncontrolled by human selfish seeking of advantage.
   Perhaps it is inborn, Original to us all, as endemic and necessary as legs or eyes.
   I hope your own bond is of the same kind, if only in your mind.

   Somewhere but obvious in Martorello’s choice of how he spends his life, is something familiar. He may now be very limited in his choices – I have heard and conversed with others so caught until their withdrawal from like positions.

   If you speak only from the heart (I also fail often), you can strip from another, what hides the Original person, who, as the Ojibwe knows, remembers the friendship, the walking, with Ma’iingan, the Wolf.

   This Way of speaking, of seeing and hearing, will free you, will enrich you beyond all whose Original selves are unknown, held captive by manipulative words.

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      July 25, 2017 Log in to Reply

      Twowolves

      It is not the best thing to do…. Tell you what if you were asked would you rather die or live your time out not being harassed by Helicopters, snares, and traps, what would your answer be? Cattle need to be off of our Federal Landscape! but to many of the large nonprofits hand out freebies looking for donations from that very same Rancher mentality…. They have to make money to pay their half million a year director salaries… plus the hundreds of thousands they pay to their other people… Their focus is not on protecting the Very Wildlife they claim to be protecting but more worried about their lil green donation button…

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