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A panel of Montana state lawmakers rejected a bill that would have barred the recreational killing of wolves in two hunting districts that border Yellowstone National Park.
A panel of Montana state lawmakers rejected a bill that would have barred the recreational killing of wolves in two hunting districts that border Yellowstone National Park.
The Senate Fish and Game Committee tabled Senate Bill 185 on Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mike Phillips, D-Bozeman, would have banned hunting and trapping wolves in wolf management units 313 and 316 near Cooke City and Gardiner.
During a hearing last week, the bill received support from many wolf advocates who argue the wolves that wander into those areas are naive and unafraid of people, making them easy targets for hunters. But agriculture organizations and groups representing hunters opposed it, arguing that it wasn’t the Legislature’s place to decide hunting regulations.
The committee voted 9-1 to table the bill. The only person who voted to keep it alive was Sen. Edie McClafferty, D-Butte.
Before the committee’s vote on Monday, Sen. Jennifer Fielder, R-Thompson Falls, said any buffer zones for those wolves should exist inside Yellowstone, and that the park should consider doing something to help the animals.
“Maybe there’s some things to look at there to teach the wolves a little about human interaction in a way that maybe sets them up so they aren’t so vulnerable when they leave the park,” Fielder said.
Sen. Pat Flowers, D-Belgrade, said Phillips offered good rationale for passing the bill but that he couldn’t support it because it goes around the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission, which sets hunting and fishing regulations. Flowers said it “supersedes their season setting authority.”
Phillips introduced the bill after a hunter killed a famous wolf known as Spitfire near Cooke City. Reached by phone Wednesday, Phillips said he was disappointed in the committee’s decision, and that arguments that the Legislature shouldn’t consider laws that fall within the commission’s authority doesn’t make sense because the Legislature grants authority to the commission.
“If that’s why you voted against the bill, that’s misguided rationale,” Phillips said.
He said he will consider trying to revive the bill.
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We need to make sure those who did not support this bill are voted out of office as soon as possible. Let the entire gov. Know. We will NOT support anyone who does not protect our planet, and the creatures who live here.
It is incredible that in this day and age there are still these types of problems. Shouldn’t we have learned by now that we humans are the main cause for most species to become extinct. The killing of predators, like the wolf, is Inconceivable and extremely bad for the eco system. The wolf, like most animals only kills to survive; we kill just for the heck of it, to feel like we are superior to other animals, which by the way, it just makes others around see that the person killing innocent animals has a major inferiority complex.
“Sport hunting’ is a sickness, a perversion and a danger and should be recognized as such. People who get their amusement from hunting and killing defenseless animals can only be suffering from a mental disorder. In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it’s detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive.” – Sir Roger Moore (seven times James Bond).
This means you, Montana and Wyoming – 2 states full of cruel monsters.
Regarding animal killing contests and trophy hunting: Humans are the species that is drastically overpopulating and destroying the planet. How about a killing contest of hunters and saving the innocent animals. Hunting each other would offer more challenging prey. It would be a win-win-win, getting rid of some evil monsters, helping the planet, reducing the population a little, and saving innocent animals, and maybe even preventing some of these bloodthirsty monsters from killing innocent people also. Animals exhibit more humanity than many or most people. They don’t murder for pleasure and trophies, and don’t set cruel snares, often baited, which cause painful deaths to wildlife and pets alike. The lead ammunition does further environmental damage often poisoning endangered species such as condors and eagles, and entering the water and food chain.