Mandated Deterrent policies are obviously needed

In various states where gray wolves have lost their federal protections, such as Idaho, Washington, Oregon their state managers are dead set on slaughtering of the predators, while appearing to be pandering to this old west mentality. They have been allowed to establish aggressive hunting seasons, as well as lethal removal controls without being based upon science or the required public input.

Killing large predators to reduce livestock conflicts, or the false idea to benefit game populations has long been studied with data showing it to be ineffective!  When in fact it does nothing more than devastates our childrens ecosystems. There is in fact a growing body of scientific studies, as well as literature which is beginning to criticize this widespread practice.

This very practice has has been allowed to happen in various states such as Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana to name but a few, which is in fact confirming many fears. One of which are Wildlife managers being outright caught pandering with Ranchers, then 2 with elected officials threatening the very Institutions that we the public send our children to for their higher education, it is time we take back the power of the public.

  The Journal of Mammalogy recently published a special collection of articles from various sources for the public that all were shown criticizing the lethal control of predators such as wolves and grizzlies. These articles are backed by numerous scientific studies showing the long term cause and effects of their actions.

  Today’s attitude of predator control, which science proves to Us to be wrong,  is widespread in North America with its origins coming apparently from the old west mentality period earlier in the barbaric 20th century, when in fact there were government-sponsored predator eradication programs. Some of those utilized poisons and bounties, as well as the introduction of disease to predators to put them on the brink of extinction. Those very programs were used to not only starve out Our Wildlife species, but that of Native Americans with the arrival of Europeans on Turtle Island. The Government put bounties on Buffalo, introduced mange into the Yellowstone Ecosystem due to the way of entitlement thinking that still haunts Us in today’s society.

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing Yellowstone grizzly bears from the list of federally protected species, apparently based on more of the same attitude of that very same old west mentality, not based on the best available science. With states like Wyoming moving quickly to establish hunting seasons, then killing more bears in a tantrum style of management in 1 year than ever before.

 For Humans to think that they can manage wildlife better than Mother Nature should in itself be a crime, after all the Europeans only looked for another place to live after they annihilated their own wildlife resources where they originated from to begin with.

 With the ecological importance of predators including wolves, even more scientists are not only calling for implementation of nonlethal methods to prevent livestock depredations, but have provided the public with the research to back up their position.

With all of the issues surrounding lethal predator control, one would think that there would a mandated deterrent policy, not whatever a certain individual rancher wants to use. Yet very few states have any permanent programs, that were actually built with true input from the public, and certainly none from esteemed scientists that might help protect livestock from depredations using nonlethal methods.