The Above image is what is allowed to happen when Large Orgs side with Ranchers. Ranchers have no business being permitted to graze the Publics Resources.
It appears that Mitch Friedman needs to learn that the only Language apparently that will get listened to will be that that comes from A Judge. Further it appears that he needs to learn what Protecting Our Children’s Resources actually means.
We have many followers that disagree with CNWs approach, they are telling Us that CNW simply rolled over. This Article is being posted for a Dedicated Follower Jerry Black. He like We work very hard at publishing not only the Truth, but exposing the wrongs that are happening to Our Children’s Resources.
“Ways of Life” are not guaranteed to anyone and those that enjoy them at the expense of our natural resources and wildlife will have to accept the fact that theirs’ cannot continue. Most of us have had to seek a new way of life at some point. The issue in the West is….Will this “Way of Life” that is beneficial to a very few, and destructive to the vast majority’s interest in their public lands and wildlife be tolerated? Possibly for a short time, as long as there is cheap beef to be enjoyed. But when beef gets too expensive and few can afford it, people will realize what it has cost them in terms of lost resources and compromised ecosystems and will change their minds. Hopefully, these people will accept the opinion of experts on the subject and make necessary changes. These necessary changes must start with REMOVING CATTLE FROM OUR PUBLIC LANDS.
Nwsportsman Mag: An instate organization deeply involved in Washington wolf issues over the past decade is blasting two out-of-state environmental groups whose legal moves have initially blocked WDFW from targeting a pack to head off further livestock depredations.
“Lawsuits and polarization haven’t worked out well for wolves elsewhere, so we see little upside in spreading those tactics to Washington, where wolf recovery is going relatively well overall” said Mitch Friedman, executive director of Conservation Northwest, in a statement this morning. “Instead of polarization, our focus is on collaboration and long-term coexistence.”
CNW is a member of WDFW’s Wolf Advisory Group which helped craft a set of lethal removal protocols that the Center for Biological Diversity and Cascadia Wildlands are now contesting in court.
On Monday, they got Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Lanese to issue a temporary restraining order against Director Kelly Susewind’s kill authorization for one or more members of northern Ferry County’s Togo Pack, implicated in six attacks on cows and calves on private and public land since last November, including three in a recent 30-day period.
The two groups, based in Arizona and Oregon and neither of which are on the WAG, claim that the protocol is “faulty” and should have been subject to an environmental review.
While CBD stresses that Washington’s wolf population is still “small” and uses its own faulty math to make it appear that a higher percentage of wolves have been lethally removed than in any single year, CNW says recovery is actually going better in the Evergreen State compared to the Northern Rockies.
CNW calls the lethal removal protocol a “deliberate approach” and one that the state’s packs “can easily withstand the current level of impact.”
And it says that working with others rather than going to court is the key.
“We think the collaborative work of the WAG is leading to less social conflict concerning wolves and more willingness of ranchers to embrace proactive techniques to lower both wolf-livestock conflict and the use of lethal removal. This is real progress towards the long-term recovery and public acceptance of wolves alongside thriving local communities in our state, and an important model for coexistence between people and wildlife,” the organization said.
Source: Instate Wolf Advocates Blast Out-of-staters’ Court Moves Against WDFW