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   October 29, 2017 Log in to Reply

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   Wyoming only has one sure island of safety for Wolf.
   Yellowstone has pretty much settled on around 100 wolves who naturally fit on the high plateaus and upper Y’stone watershed.. This is mostly NOT winter habitat, as you might know; the bison WANT TO migrate down, and the elk do to a large extent.
   Some migrate from the Lamar Valley over across the border into the Absarokas and down toward Cody (the reservoir etc. There are about 4 wolf families who live outside of the Park, who, because of this migratory prey situation, also prey on cattle in the warmer month. There’s lots of haters that way.
   THe other area of relative wolf safety from [nontribals] who desire to hunt them, is the Wind RIver Rez. It’s separated by those “big game” legal hunting divisions. The Shoshone and Arapaho don’t allow any non-rez people to hunt on the land. There’s only about one wolf family there, or else just two packs who partially use Rez territory. They don’t talk much about wolves, it seems, and FWS pulled information on wolves there from the public, possibly either due to Trump, [REMEMBER! Obama’s admin was ALSO antiwolf, with Salazar etc.], or to FWS getting legally assaulted from all sides..
   [the Blackfeet of Montana and in Canada have a far better more unified feeling of relationship for Wolf, but that is another story]
   Tribal plans included designating the wolf as game animal, as well as allowing killing of any that attacked or threatened any domestics.
   There is the usual disagreement, and the tribe, like the US and state agencies favored those who feel they suffer personal loss.
   Just so everyone knows. Reservations tend to have the poorest people in North America. This means several things:
   There’s some subsistence hunting of elk etc. that is technically illegal, as the tribes want to restore the richness of the original world. But mostly they don’t enforce poaching. This is really only a problem because poor people are often subject to depression and anger, so alcohol and drugs are rampant. Combine this with guns, and you have the same problem of shooting on sight that occurs in Euroculture places.
   It’s sad, because this may be a factor in the wolves probably not exceeding the dozen or so we knew of. The rez might be called high plains, and has MUCH dry country.

   Down in the Hoback Basin, there seem to be no wolves. That area had hunting and wildlife groups purchase extraction leases to prevent the total mess that mining an d oil make, which always includes poaching. But the locals are eager to shoot wolves.

   Cat Urbigkit over in Pinedale is someone who publicizes wolves as much as possible. While she tends not to express personal views, that publicity and wide exposure has led to everyone knowing too much. Her alarmist repetition of total wolf population instead of admitting Wyoming only has one hundred to UNDER a couple hundred outside of Y’stone, suggests her real feelings. She is on radio in the papers and online.

   Excessive telling of where wolves are is a modern-world problem. Never give information.
   I have ever only mentioned wolf scat, tracks, or other things like sound, to a VERY few people who I’m sure are in favor of complete wolf protection. I do such in order to see what I hear from them.
   The modern state agencies are too forthcoming [open] about where the wolves are, and this DOES cause gunners to travel FAR to attempt killing, largely illegal, as if the legality really mattered.

   As some know, snowmobiling is associated with real killing stress on all wildlife, even if they are not packing firearms. Work against this “sport” whenever you wish.

   The main hope I can offer is that state wildlife management agencies will slowly discover that wolf populations level off without human interference. Right now, they still listen to the shrieking of wealthy livestock orgs and the large owners who don’t want to take any time dealing with these native balancers of life.

   I can give you a little more hope in the Trump admin’s ending of some trade agreements. Japan and China are quickly increasing their taste for beef, and the Obama admin was really trying to benefit cattle industry by getting more and more markets for cattle.
   Trump admin canceled I think the destructive Brazilian industry’s imports into the US without tariff. This would give US cattlemen the capacity to raise prices.and make more domestically.
   McD’s and othhers still cause astonishing levels of beef consumption worldwide, and keep teachhing the US population that this excessively fat- and artificial hormone-laden meat is a preferred food.

   Don’t let me get started on Texas, that teaches that canned hunting (raising animals as domestics, and then letting them into a fenced area for a sure kill by paying gunners). Once the Red Wolf used to live in the eastern wetter part, and the Mexican Wolf from the hill country west.
   A recent 2017 study unethically created an extremely narrow definition of Mexican Wolf, ignoring that the wolves of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico Colorado’s south, and the Kaibab and Mogollon plateau were morphologically the same wolf with most similar genes and adaptations.. This lie will be the basis upon which the restrictive Mexican Wolf habitat will be retained next month when that Plan is due.
   Sorry for the boring length, but My Brothher’s People are also mine.

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   October 30, 2017 Log in to Reply

   Saree

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