Profanity Peak mother no longer with us.
It is a sad day when Elected Officials are allowed to meddle with Science. Especially considering that they have no concerns of the Laws that appear to have been broken by doing so. Further Inslee sat in His Governors office and allowed it to happen after what must be millions of requests to step in and stop this pandering to Ranchers by WDFW.
It is past time to hold Washingtons Elected Officials accountable for their blatant actions as well as inaction’s, then claiming that they do not want Wolves delisted from the Endangered Species List. Jay Inslee should be ashamed of himself for allowing not only Our Reported Discrimination by Washington States Attorney General against our Organization in addition to allowing the conflict of interest participate in his States Wolf Advisory Group better known as “WAG”.
The lengths that Politicians will stoop to to try to gain votes is saddening. Inslee claims he doesnt think that wolves should be delisted out of 1 side of his mouth yet nothing to speak out for the Special Interest influence against Washingtons Wolves comes out the other side.
Inslee then appoints a Cattle Rancher to WDFWs Board of Commisioners. That in itself speaks Volumes on Inslees true position! We already have one alleged felon in the whitehouse we certainly do not need another that uses Your children’s resources to garner Votes when he does absolutely ZERO to protect them.
The Conservation Groups that helped push through Dashiells Emailed Lethal Action policy desires into Policy should also be ashamed of themselves. They have no business being involved in the protection of Your Children’s Resources. Guess what, according to Erik Molvars article they are now backing away from the new policy….
Other conservation groups initially chose to collaborate on allowing wolf killings in response to livestock losses, citing social tolerance, but even the collaborators are now backing away from the state wolf plan and its failure to require nonlethal methods, and some are now openly critical. They lost their opportunity by allowing it to come to pass in the way they did. Had they spoke out against it the entire time, perhaps they could have saved some face. Our Opinion remains they Sold Out Your Children’s Resources and until they admit their error they are in denial.
Below are Excerpts taken from an Article written by Erik Molvar, Director of Western Watersheds Project.
The latest example in a long and painful litany of ranchers’ abuse comes courtesy of Len McIrvin and his Diamond M Ranch in Washington. McIrvin’s complaints about livestock losses have spurred multiple kill orders against wolves by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). This latest wolf war initiated by the livestock industry began with the snuffing of the entire Profanity Pack after the Diamond M Ranch released its livestock in 2016 on national forest lands in close proximity to a known wolf den.
Dr. Rob Weilgus of Washington State University exposed this rancher-caused conflict, and subsequently released research demonstrating that the killing of wolves had no effect on future livestock losses. The livestock industry struck back against the science through Rep. Joel Kretz, their ally in the state legislature, who engineered a deal to shut down funding for Dr. Weilgus’ wolf research. Legislators further threatened the university with the withdrawal of millions of dollars in funding for a medical school to muzzle Dr. Weilgus.
The killing of the Profanity Pack was followed by kill orders for the Sherman Pack, the Smackout and Togo Packs, and later kill orders against the wolves who came in to fill the vacant territory on Profanity Peak, a pack now called the Old Profanity Territory (OPT) Pack. All through these killings, the “social tolerance” for wolves among locals has not increased one iota; if anything, McIrvin’s calls for more wolf killings have become more strident and frequent over time, and the controversial wolf killings continue.
While McIrvin and his Diamond M have been implicated in the majority of wolf kills in central Washington, but no other ranchers in Washington seems to be having major problems.
The conflict-to-killing outcome is exactly what the Washington state wolf plan envisions. From the outset, some wildlife advocates opposed killing wolves, listed as an ‘endangered species’ in Washington under state law, and refused to endorse the state wolf plan. Other conservationists initially chose to collaborate on allowing wolf killingsin response to livestock losses, citing social tolerance, but even the collaborators are now backing away from the state wolf plan and its failure to require nonlethal methods, and some are now openly critical. The kill orders have become a nationwide scandal and an embarrassment to Governor Jay Inslee and WFDW Director Kelly Susewind, whose competence and environmental ethics have been called into question.
Source: Social tolerance for wolves (and ranchers) | The Wildlife News
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