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Cattle Producers of Washington President Scott Nielsen spreading Fertilizer

In Oppose Welfare Ranching, Profanity Peak Pack, Protect The Wolves, Smackout Pack by Twowolves2 Comments

Profanity peak pack, protect the wolves,

Profanity Peak members that are no longer with us. Credit Dr. Robert Wielgus

Cattle Producers of Washington President Scott Nielsen is a prime example of spreading B.S. stories and fear, just like McIrvrins Letter has earned him a New Moniker by our followers as Pinocchio .

Scott Nielsen said he’s concerned that WDFW’s policy will leave the public unaware of the damage wolves are inflicting on livestock producers. “I would like to see that put out,” he said. No Worries Scott….. we spread your fertilizer everytime we get the opportunity….. Everyone knows your in WDFWs front Pockets….. Perhaps Scott if money is so Important to you stay off our Public Lands…. Clearly you do not care much about your cattle by exposing them year after year to danger in remote mountainous country…..

On the other side…. take a peek at this article….. Cantrell is trying to recover some of his backside after the Public chewed it off after The Profanity Peak Massacre…. No Worries Cantrell….. its not working…. to little to late unless you take aggressive positive action and go out swinging instead of merely ROLLING OVER!!

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife reported Thursday that it has killed one wolf in the Smackout pack in Stevens County and that the lethal-control operation is continuing.

WDFW wolf policy coordinator Donny Martorello declined to provide more details about the culling of the pack. It’s the fourth time WDFW has used lethal removal to stop attacks on livestock since wolves begin recolonizing the state a decade ago.

Martorello said that releasing information in the past while operations were still underway has inflamed members of the public, leading to threats against wildlife managers and ranchers.

“Nothing is of higher priority than human safety,” he said.

WDFW announced July 20 that the department’s director, Jim Unsworth, had authorized culling the pack. WDFW verified the pack attacked four cattle over a 10-month period, meeting the threshold for WDFW to consider lethal removal. The department also reported stepped-up efforts to protect cattle with range-riders, strobe lights and fabric flapping in the wind.

WDFW confirmed a fifth depredation July 22. The pack injured a calf that was in a fenced 40-acre pasture that was holding 30 cow-calf pairs, according to WDFW.

WDFW policy calls for shooting one or two wolves and then pausing to see whether the pack stops attacking livestock. Martorello said the lethal-removal operation was ongoing. “We hope we can change wolf behavior,” he said.

WDFW counted eight wolves in the pack at the end of 2016. Since then, according to WDFW, the pack has produced an unknown number of wolves. One female wolf that was attacking cattle was shot and killed by a ranch employee June 30 on U.S. Forest Service land. WDFW said the shooting was lawful.

Martorello declined to say whether the wolf killed by WDFW in the past week was an adult or pup, male or female.

In previous years, WDFW has provided more details.

“An unfortunate consequence for that level of transparency is that it can be used for harassment and threats to public safety,” Martorello said.

Martorello said WDFW eventually will reveal more details, but not until a report in the fall after the grazing season. The department will provide a weekly report on the number of wolves killed, he said.

Cattle Producers of Washington President Scott Nielsen said he’s concerned that WDFW’s policy will leave the public unaware of the damage wolves are inflicting on livestock producers. “I would like to see that put out,” he said.

Nevertheless, the department has reason to be concerned about the reaction to culling a pack, Nielsen said.

“You have some absolute loons who think you should never kill a wolf,” he said. “They (WDFW) need to protect whomever from some of that lunacy.”

WDFW cites a policy developed by the department’s Wolf Advisory Group for its limited release of information.

One member of the group, Defenders of Wildlife Northwest director Shawn Cantrell, has criticized WDFW for not providing more timely updates on wolves, even failing to keep its commitment to provide monthly reports.

Cantrell said WDFW has been slow to release important information about wolf recovery. WDFW, for example, didn’t report until mid-July that a wolf had been hit and killed by a vehicle in March.

“We remain frustrated,” Cantrell said Friday. “We anticipated there would be significantly more transparency.”

The lead on wolf issues for the Center for Biological Diversity, Amaroq Weiss, said the WDFW’s terse report was a “travesty.”

“The public has over and over demanded transparency from this agency, yet the deeply flawed wolf-livestock protocol adopted by the department in June requires only that the public be notified how many wolves it has killed each week,” she said in a written statement.

Washington has 15 wolfpacks clustered in northeast Washington, where conflicts between livestock and wolves have led to WDFW’s four lethal-control operations since 2012.

Nielsen said wolves will continue to attack cattle if they run short of other prey.

“The wolves are hungry,” he said. “They’re hungry and eat or cows.”

Ranchers say verified depredations are only a fraction of the cattle killed or injured by wolves, and that it has become impossible to protect herds with only non-lethal measures.

Source: Washington kills wolf in Smackout pack – Washington – Capital Press

Comments

  1. Well, this article does show some increasing problems with Martorello. I had hoped that he would remain dedicated to his actual job.
    I don’t know if his job description is assuaging public discord, but withholding information from the public over WDFW’s actions seems highly political, to the extent of exceeding WDFW’s mandate.
    Threats of violence by members of the public either toward wolves or to other members of the human community, are police matters, and it is profoundly improper to hide Wildlife dept. lethal actions against wolves under the rubric of “protecting” the public, agency members (anonymity of individuals would not seem to be unlawful, but killing a species and refusing to allow public scrutiny, is.

    In other news, I’ve posted previously on USDA activity subsidizing US beef exports, even though a few other nations export with out such subsidizing activity. While the issue may not have been broached here, the cattle/beef industry is, as I’ve said, relatively insignificant in the valleys of the mountain west, although Both Agriculture and Interior Depts have colluded in destroying and fragmenting remaining public lands wild natural habitat.
    While the present administration and several states pursue this activity which leads to extinction of native species, the news is elsewhere:
    Japan, a nation of around 128 million, is a significant beef consumer. Their previous tariff on US beef was 35% of selling price of imports from USA. They have just jacked it up to 50%.
    Their rationale is that they have no special trade agreement. TPP and other trade agreements subordinate environmental laws of a nation to predatory businesses by creating capacity for corporations and businesses to sue governments attempting to introduce environmental protections.
    Japan’s government is quite involved in corporate activity, to a greater extent than even the USA. That practice is a defining factor of what’s termed “fascism”, by the way, and a nation allowing such corporate excess priority over public lands use is well on its way there, as is the election of executives and legislators who have or retain profit and agenda of such prioritized promotion.

    Wyoming, for instance, is a state in which ranching industries are unwarrantedly favored. This again, is well along the path away from representative democracy into fascism.

    So long as people successfully fight for wildlife, natural systems, preservation and conservation over business – international trade deals in this case. the excessive and damaging ranching industry from the Rockies west on public winter habitat can be held less profitable.

    But as far as WA is concerned, it strongly appears that the WAG – wolf action group, has been perverted and is failing due to preference for radical ranching’s demand that wolves , an insignificant cause of mortality, be exterminated. Ranchers appear to be pressing for the state to be a diminished ecosystem, with only farming and urban human values.
    China created such a world long ago, wiping out its wildlife, and now even reaches to Africa, Tropical Asia, and a huge proportion of some ocean areas, to destroy wildlife – for benighted primitive medical fiction and jaded decadent tastes.

    Japan, also overpopulated , also acts destructively toward oceans and wildlife beyond its borders; they, however have a population and immigration policy intended to shrink their present excess human population. The USA needs a coherent policy of the latter type, to prevent the ongoing business pressures from local to national and international from continuing extinction of native wildlife and systems.

    All nations need to cease destruction beyond their borders; only then can a culture sufficiently value preservation of what remains. We need a 50% tax on beef, and to shut down the fast food industry so unhealthy to humans and so devouring of cattle. Every link of the chain of hate and destruction of our native and ancient relatives requires attention.

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