Evidently Donny Martorello is not capable of understanding the mandates placed upon him under the Trusts. Donny has taken it upon himself to manage our Public Resources at the best interests of the Cattle Rancher it would appear caving into demands that wolves be killed quicker as he disclosed in this WDFW update…. We need remind him again that special interests are not to be involved. We have him stating below that the plan was developed by the group, adopted by the commission.
Due to Donnys proven past of erasing update information…. the inability to take a life humanely and then making a claim they did….. just adds credence to the fact that Martorello needs to go.
Donny should also be informed that a late turnout is not considered a deterrent.
The new “wolf-livestock interaction protocol” guides when the agency will move to kill wolves in response to livestock depredations. Protect The Wolves™ is concerned that their new protocol allows wolves to be killed under dubious circumstances and lacks sufficient “MANDATED” requirements for ranchers to exhaust a set in stone list of nonlethal measures.
Under the new protocol, a kill order for wolves is considered after three depredations (deaths or injury to livestock) in 30 days, or four depredations in 10 months. Affected livestock owners are required to have tried at least two proactive measures to deter conflicts with wolves at the time the livestock losses took place, but there’s no requirement in terms of how long the measures must have been in place to determine if they have been effective.
This protocol would allow wolves to be killed even for livestock deaths not confirmed as caused by wolves…… and provides for the same threshold for killing wolves on public lands as on private lands; and does not have stringent requirements for keeping livestock away from known den and rendezvous sites where wolves raise their pups. There is also no requirement, only a recommendation, for human presence near livestock, despite it being one of the most effective means known to deter wolf-livestock conflicts.
The wolf plan was developed with the help of a multi-stakeholder working group and adopted by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission in 2011. The wolf plan has four goals, in accordance with state law and regulations:
1) recovery of the species,
2) reducing wolf-livestock conflict,
3) addressing interactions between wolves and native ungulates, and
4) promoting coexistence of livestock and wolves and public understanding of wolf management (see page 14 of WDFW Wolf Conservation and Management plan).
Under the umbrella of the wolf plan, this protocol outlines the various tools and actions WDFW uses to reduce wolf-livestock interactions in order to support wolf recovery and maintain the long-term coexistence of wolves and livestock. The goal of the tools and approaches described in this protocol is to influence/change wolf pack behavior to reduce the potential for recurrent wolf depredations on livestock while continuing to promote wolf recovery. In addition, some tools have the ancillary benefit of increasing human awareness and/or influencing livestock behavior to increase the coexistence of wolves and livestock.
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Shame on anyone responsible for another species safety and existence to compromise their position, regardless of the influences. Weak individuals and those lacking integrity need to move over and allow those with Humanity and Integrity to head up these projects. There must be validated statistics that are not manipulated by special interest groups, available to the public. This is after all a
democracy !