People, You all want this to stop, the only thing that now keeps us from being able to stop this is Money!! It is pretty sad, these groups that have it… money that is, tell us that there is nothing that they can do…. We are told by many Groups and respected individuals now that We can stop this.
Now that federal officials are involved, hopefully another phone call will meet with someone that is familiar with the appropriate methods prior to Lethal Action. Because Abbott certainly is not! Do we expect that large conservation groups will add to our Native American Religious Voice? They didnt the last time that we asked them, why would they now? It is almost like they 1 dont want the light taken off of their attempts… yet they tell us that their is nothing that they can do.
A wolf pack that has been among Jackson Hole’s most visible and well-known for the last seven years is still calling a precarious place home: the hillsides and river bottoms right around hundreds of Spring Gulch cattle.
The Pinnacle Peak Pack, which likely produced a double litter this spring and numbered as many as 18 animals, has not left the area west of Highway 26/89/191 this week. Two Walton Ranch cattle were maimed or killed by wolves in the last two weeks, and a federal wildlife agent is posted on the property trying to reduce the pack size and break the pattern of livestock depredation.
“When I get reports from my guy, he says they’re in the trees above the ranch,” U.S. Department of Agriculture-Wildlife Services Wyoming Director Mike Foster said Friday. “They seem to be hanging out there on a regular basis. They don’t really leave the area, and they aren’t going back and forth.
“They seem to have localized,” Foster said.
Five tracking collars from the Pinnacle Peak Pack, which formed in 2009 and dens on the National Elk Refuge, have been detected around the narrow agricultural valley that runs between East and West Gros Ventre buttes. No cattle have been attacked since the early morning of Sept. 15, but dating to spring at least nine Spring Gulch cattle have been confirmed wolf-killed.
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to disclose the number of wolves that are authorized to be killed or that have already been destroyed.
The lethal authorization, Foster said, “is fluid.”
Wolves are protected by the Endangered Species Act in Wyoming and are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wildlife Services takes action on behalf of Fish and Wildlife.
Tyler Abbott, Fish and Wildlife’s deputy field supervisor for Wyoming, also declined to disclose the number of Pinnacle Peak Pack wolves that have been or could be killed.
“That is an ongoing decision-making process,” Abbott said.
Nonlethal techniques, he said, will be used in conjunction with killing wolves, which reportedly has been a ground-based operation that is using a combination of trapping and shooting.
“We’ve got well over a dozen wolves on private land,” Abbott said. “They’re not leaving and they’re right there in close proximity to the livestock, so it’s a tough situation.”
As recently as late June, aerial assessments found as many as 11 pups in the Pinnacle Peak Pack. The highest number of wolves counted on the year, 18, was the most ever for the pack, National Elk Refuge biologist Eric Cole said.
Cole, who has kept tabs on the Pinnacle Peak Pack for seven years, speculated on what might have triggered the wolves’ sudden predilection for beef. Until this year, they have stayed away from livestock.
“When I get reports from my guy, he says they’re in the trees above the ranch,” U.S. Department of Agriculture-Wildlife Services Wyoming Director Mike Foster said Friday. “They seem to be hanging out there on a regular basis. They don’t really leave the area, and they aren’t going back and forth.
“They seem to have localized,” Foster said.
Five tracking collars from the Pinnacle Peak Pack, which formed in 2009 and dens on the National Elk Refuge, have been detected around the narrow agricultural valley that runs between East and West Gros Ventre buttes. No cattle have been attacked since the early morning of Sept. 15, but dating to spring at least nine Spring Gulch cattle have been confirmed wolf-killed.
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to disclose the number of wolves that are authorized to be killed or that have already been destroyed.
The lethal authorization, Foster said, “is fluid.”
Wolves are protected by the Endangered Species Act in Wyoming and are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wildlife Services takes action on behalf of Fish and Wildlife.
Tyler Abbott, Fish and Wildlife’s deputy field supervisor for Wyoming, also declined to disclose the number of Pinnacle Peak Pack wolves that have been or could be killed.
“That is an ongoing decision-making process,” Abbott said.
Nonlethal techniques, he said, will be used in conjunction with killing wolves, which reportedly has been a ground-based operation that is using a combination of trapping and shooting.
“We’ve got well over a dozen wolves on private land,” Abbott said. “They’re not leaving and they’re right there in close proximity to the livestock, so it’s a tough situation.”
As recently as late June, aerial assessments found as many as 11 pups in the Pinnacle Peak Pack. The highest number of wolves counted on the year, 18, was the most ever for the pack, National Elk Refuge biologist Eric Cole said.
Cole, who has kept tabs on the Pinnacle Peak Pack for seven years, speculated on what might have triggered the wolves’ sudden predilection for beef. Until this year, they have stayed away from livestock.
Source: Pinnacle wolves linger near pasture – Jackson Hole News&Guide: Local