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Calling for Wyoming Guide Convicted of Wolf Poaching to Lose License

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Call For Action:

Protect The Wolves™ has called the Wyoming Board of Outfitters to inquire what is necessary, to maintain an Outfitter License in the state of Wyoming. Amanda Mckee informed Us that there are rues in place for a Guide to maintain his license. We were also informed that his Outfitter license can be removed, suspended, or he just put on probation.

Probation for his Poaching of a Wolf inside of park boundaries would be an unacceptable consequence for his actions much the same as what the courts sentenced him to which were not much more than a slap on the wrist!!

Protect The Wolves™ is tired of these types of Individuals getting off scott free! We will be calling for removal of his Outfitter License for LIFE, as should have been his hunting privileges removed for instead of 1 year!!

Under Wyoming Board of Outfitters 23-2-410. Powers and duties of board; generally; employees; licensing and regulation. We can file complaints against license Holders, in This Case Brian Taylor. We will also request in our complaint that his Outfitter license be suspended until his hearing with The Wyoming Board of Outfitters.

Submit your Complaints to Amada Mckee Director of Wyoming Board of Outfitters and Guides to : amanda.mckee@wyo.gov

You can also submit a Complaint online requesting his outfitter license be removed for life. here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6kSHOoFVc1LbndwMmpwWFFuMTQ/view

JACKSON — Investigating rangers say a Jackson Hole hunting guide lost track of where he was when he shot and killed a young female gray wolf late last year inside Grand Teton National Park.

Grand Teton officials sent out word Wednesday that Kelly resident Brian Taylor pleaded guilty to unlawful take of wildlife, was fined $5,040, lost his wolf hunting privileges for a year and earned a year of probation. Taylor’s wife, who was also present, was let off the hook.

“The individuals were just honest and forthright about it,” Chief Ranger Michael Nash said. “We didn’t detect any ill intent.”

Grand Teton officials declined to name the hunter who was prosecuted, but Taylor’s identity was provided to the Jackson Hole Daily by a federal court clerk. His court appearance was Jan. 31.

Nash said park rangers were doing a compliance check on two bison legally killed near the park boundary on Bridger-Teton National Forest land when they came across tracks and a blood trail telling of illegal activity north of Spread Creek.

The park’s eastern boundary where Taylor shot the wolf is “stair-stepped,” Nash said, but also well marked with signs, including where the two hunters treaded through the snow.

Specifically, the wolf was shot approximately 2.5 miles west of the park’s east boundary in an area where an otherwise straight-line east-to-west boundary jags to the south for approximately 1.5 miles. The wolf was shot approximately a half-mile inside the boundary.

Rangers decided that the poaching, which occurred during the federal government shutdown, was likely accidental after conferring with Taylor and his wife, Nash said. The animal was checked in with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, a requirement that helped park rangers identify Taylor.

Game and Fish spokesman Mark Gocke said the state agency had limited involvement in the park’s investigation.

“He registered the wolf with us,” Gocke said. “[Warden] Jon Stephens checked it in, and the location he gave us was right adjacent to the park.”

“That was about it,” he said. “From our standpoint, as far as we knew, it was a legal take. It was the last day of the season, and the season was open.”

A number of hunts occur right outside of Grand Teton’s boundary — elk, bison, deer and other critters can all be legally killed on forestland within yards of the demarcating line. Although Nash could not recall any other hunter boundary mixups this year, mistakes do happen.

“It’s very common for hunters, outfitters and guides to hunt along the park boundary, and those hunters and visitors are reminded that it’s their responsibility to know where they are,” he said. “Protection of park resources is super important to us, especially wildlife. It’s why we do our boundary patrols and it’s something we keep a keen eye to.”

Although the poached wolf was unmarked and lacked a tracking collar, park biologists suspect it was a member of the Lower Gros Ventre Pack based on the animal’s location. The carcass is now in the possession of Teton park.

One Jackson Hole wildlife activist was skeptical of investigating park ranger’s conclusions.

“It’s hugely suspicious,” Wyoming Wildlife Advocates Managing Director Kristin Combs said. “He was born and raised here. He definitely knew where the park boundaries were.

Combs charged that the Taylors are “known wolf haters.”“Just because he was cooperative doesn’t mean he should get a lenient sentence,” she said. “As an organization, we’re extremely disappointed in the lack of harsher sentence for someone that obviously knew better.”

Reached late Wednesday, Brian Taylor was contrite.

“The truth is, I misjudged the boundary and I made an honest mistake,” Taylor said. “I’m accountable for my actions. The park acknowledged my cooperation and handled it professionally.”

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Source: Boundary mix-up leads to man poaching wolf | From The Wire | wyomingnews.com

Comments

  1. This is Moronic behaviour this guide obviously has no moral compass killing a wolf anywhere nesr Yellowstone a National Park of this callibure is a blight on a society that lets this appalling behaviour occurr. Studies show it can, depending on which wolf is killed, the size of the pack, and the season.
    What happens to a pack when certain wolves, the alphas or other elders, for example, die?
    Wolves are extremely social animals that live in families. Each wolf plays an important role in the pack’s survival, from the rearing of pups to teaching the younger wolves how to hunt. Yet, the long-term effects of losing specific individuals from such highly complex social groups are still poorly understood.
    To begin to address this question, Bridget Borg, Scott Brainerd, Thomas Meier and Laura Prugh looked at what happens to a pack as well as to the overall wolf population following the death of a breeder (alpha female, alpha male or both). Specifically, Borg and her team studied individual pack fates, reproduction, and overall population growth following the loss of a breeder.
    How do you measure how the loss of a breeder impacts the fate of the pack?
    Bridget Borg, Scott Brainerd, Thomas Meier and Laura Prugh examined data from the past 26 years on 387 collared wolves in Denali National Park and Preserve (DNPP) in Alaska. The study area covered wolf habitat north and west of the Alaska Range in and adjacent to DNPP.
    The data came from wolf population monitoring efforts that began in 1986. Wolves in DNPP were radio collared and tracked using radiotelemetry. Borg et. al.’s study looked at data from packs monitored from 1986 to 2013. About 10-20 wolf packs were monitored each year, mostly within DNPP boundaries.
    Information such as wolf location, number of wolves in a pack, coat color, age, mortality, den site location and use, and pack affiliation were all recorded annually.
    Although wolves within DNPP are protected from hunting and trapping, outside of the park boundaries, wolves are subject to hunting and trapping during set seasons. Park wolves tend to follow caribou out of the park in an annual migration, exposing them to hunting and trapping when the season permits.
    What did Borg, Brainerd, Meier and Prugh find in their study, “Impacts of breeder loss on social structure, reproduction and population growth in a social canid”?
    What they found is that in 77% of the cases where a pack dissolved, the dissolution was preceded by the death of a breeder. Moreover, the pack was more likely to dissolve if both breeders or if just the alpha female (mother) died, and if the pack was small, or if the death occurred just before or during breeding season.
    But, interestingly, the loss of the alpha female and/or alpha pair didn’t appear to affect population growth that year or the following year. Scientists believe this is because wolves have compensatory breeding mechanisms. In intact packs, social carnivores like wolves suppress reproduction among others in the pack, essentially preventing them from breeding. But when the alpha pair is killed, there is no suppression, and as a result more and younger wolves tend to breed.
    This study also noted that when breeders die of natural causes, it was less likely to result in the pack dissolving than when the death of the breeder was human-caused.
    What percent of wolf deaths are human-caused?
    In the United States, wolf management strategy focuses on wolf population numbers. Methods currently used to ensure wolf populations remain at desired levels include: hunting, trapping, snaring and the federal lethal control of wolves. In Idaho, for example, over the past two years, 99% of documented wolf deaths were human-caused (2014 Idaho Wolf Monitoring Progress Report, Idaho Fish and Game).
    This method of population management removes individuals indiscriminately, not taking into account which wolf is killed, the wolves’ role in the familial structure, or the ways in which the loss of an individual wolf might affect the rest of the pack. It ignores how killing an important family member, like an alpha, might fundamentally alter the pack’s social structure, or even cause the family to break apart. I’ve raised wolf Hybrids and I know they work very similarly to human families., from experience . For some reason this information is being blocked from get to the correct people in power that do actually care about these animals and what wolves not vermin bring to the tourism table. How many tourists travel to Yellowstone National park specifically to see wolves.
    Recently Spitfire from the Butte Peak Pack was killed. Her pack constantly looked for her coming out of the park to find their mother wolf. Are you going to seriously indicate once again that this abuse of wolves is ok?

  2. There are too many gun-happy, trigger-fingered, psychopathic killers on the loose who are shooting up anything that moves. These people are a danger to all life. There need to be real consequences for idiots who are slaughtering wild life!! Wolves are an ESSENTIAL part of the ecosystem! And poachers are the ones who should be poached!

  3. Right, nothing more than a “slap on the wrist,” if even as much. If he was responsible he would have known he was on Park property. Not an “honest mistake.” Penalties must be more severe, including jail time and permanent forfeiture of his licenses or for a minimum of 5 years. What he did was a felony not a mistake.

  4. This guide needs to be severely punished and lose his license permanently. Stop the war on wolves and other wildlife and the environment.
    Wolves don’t wipe out elk and other species. They take the weak and injured and strengthen the herd. They don’t slaughter the healthiest specimens. Hunters however do just that – killing “trophy animals” – by doing so, weaken the gene pool. As was demonstrated in Yellowstone, the reintroduction of wolves brought the ecosystem there back from the brink of human caused collapse. Wolves even help combat chronic wasting disease. Wealthy corporate ranchers graze their their cattle on public land allowing them to strip the land and destroy the biodiversity needed for a healthy ecosystem.
    Grazing allotments on public land, welfare ranching and the ensuing environmental damage should not be allowed.
    Wolves appear to be the best defense against Chronic Wasting disease. Additionally, evidence shows that often killing wolves and destroying the cohesiveness of a pack actually increases predation on ranch and farm animals. This is especially true when the younger inexperienced animals lose their teachers that help them learn about bringing down wild prey and resort to domesticated “easier prey”. It’s a shame that wolves have more “humanity” than many or most people.
    The only humane way to shoot wildlife is with a camera. A humane “trophy hunter” only collects a picture. “Sport hunting’ is a sickness, a perversion and a danger and should be recognized as such. People who get their amusement from hunting and killing defenseless animals can only be suffering from a mental disorder. In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it’s detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive.” – Sir Roger Moore (seven times James Bond).

    Regarding animal killing contests and trophy hunting: Humans are the species that is drastically overpopulating and destroying the planet. How about a killing contest of hunters and saving the innocent animals. Hunting each other would offer more challenging prey. It would be a win-win-win, getting rid of some evil monsters, helping the planet, reducing the population a little, and saving innocent animals, and maybe even preventing some of these bloodthirsty monsters from killing innocent people also. Animals exhibit more humanity than many or most people. They don’t murder for pleasure and trophies, and don’t set cruel snares, often baited, which cause painful deaths to wildlife and pets alike. The lead ammunition does further environmental damage often poisoning endangered species such as condors and eagles, and entering the water and food chain.

    Funding conservation from hunting is a sick insane paradox, not unlike paying for women’s health with donations from rapists and sex abusers.

  5. Why do people get off on killing wolves and other predators? Do they think it proves their … courage, strength, prowess? Good god, go out and do it without a stupid semi-automatic rifle, camo, and what other killing paraphernalia people make a profit off of, and then they can crow. It still wouldn’t make it right though. There is no need to kill wolves, and indeed the ecosystem when screwed with, eventually screws people. People, who think they are the end all and be all of this earth, when truly they are little more than a parasite that kills wantonly. But as they perceive themselves dominion-holders, they should care what idiotic killing eventually does. Aside from all that, all animals are sentient. They. Are. Sentient. They have families that they care about, and loners such as male bears, still have every right to live freely.

  6. The guide, Brian Taylor has no business operating under the guise of guide….Brian Taylor is a despicable poacher with a license. Remove all privileges permanently and put him on a poaching watch list.

  7. What exactly was the purpose of the shooting in the first place????? It’s senseless and unnecessary and shooting animals because you think it’s cool or fun is a disgusting travesty. What a disruption to the wolf pack. But, you don’t care. I want to know WHY you don’t care. Sick of narrow minded ignorant excuse you use to cover your true intent which is to shoot just for the hell of it. Not one redeeming quality. And the ppl who don’t effectively punish for this aren’t taken seriously. A big joke. Such a sad state of affairs that there are ppl out there for such disdain of the natural beauty of the wilderness that their destruction goes uncheck.

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