Obama Admin. OK's Shooting Wolves on Sight in Wyoming

[Cattledog]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and new Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe announced details of Wyoming's wolf management plan that would allow wolves to be shot on sight across most of the state.

[QC]

1. So hopeful! n/t

[bluestateguy]

2. and as soon as I can find the link I can have more to say

nt

[DesertFlower]

3. i'm so angry i don't know what to say.

[xchrom]

4. Cause there are so many of them.

Oh. Well.

[xchrom]

5. Cause there are so many of them.

Oh. Well.

[digitaln3rd]

6. Palin must be proud.

That's kind of an odd name for something where killing is the goal: "Wolf management program"? Maybe we should start calling death row a human management program, then.

So what's the difference between Republicans and Democrats again*?

(Not all Democrats, of course, but the majority)

[amborin]

7. please call Fish & Game to oppose: 1-800-344-WILD (9453)

http://action.defenders.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=24940&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&autologin=true

1-800-344-WILD (9453)

[Mojorabbit]

13. they are closed but I sent an email

[e-mail]

[originalpckelly]

8. The REAL American way: Call in some predator drones on the wolves.

Let them eat hellfires.
Then "accidentally" kill some of the livestock that you were trying to protect and call it collateral damage. Even if it was a young animal.
Hey, it beats shooting them from a helicopter. The wolves might attack you in a helicopter, right?
Have you seen wolves man a 50 caliber? It's not a pretty sight.

[TheWraith]

9. Got a link for that?

I rather suspect you're engaging in hyperbole and leaving some parts out.

[Mojorabbit]

14. here is one

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c54c1882-a8cd-11e0-9399-001cc4c03286.html

[Tesha]

15. Go find an article and you'll quickly find out that you're wrong. (NT)

[TheWraith]

16. Uh, no. I'm not.

The article says nothing like what the OP claims.

[joeybee12]

17. Yeah it does...when wolves are left unprotected in any area, shooting

on sight is allowed.

[Kaleva]

19. No. wyoming agreed to maintain a population of 100. Thus can't have "shoot on sight"

[joeybee12]

20. Keep reading...there are areas where they will be left unprotected...

As long as they keep that 100, which is a pathetically ridiculous number, those animals can be killed there.

[Kaleva]

21. But the killing will have to be regulated in order to maintain that number.

[TheWraith]

22. No, that statement is patently false.

They must maintain a protected population of at least 100 outside of Yellowstone.

There are several protected areas, which increase in the winter.

To maintain the population of wolves, hunting has to be regulated and kept to a relative minimum.

That's hardly the "Shoot all wolves on sight!!!one" policy that the OP describes.

[Kaleva]

18. Yes, some parts were indeed left out. Unrecced.

Wyoming would be required to maintain a wolf population of 100, which includes 30 breeding pairs, outside of Yellowstone National Park. A "flex area" (exact boundary of such to be determined) in Sublette and Lincoln counties south of Yellowstone National Park would be created and be an area in which cannot be hunted during the winter months.

In order to maintain a population of 100 wolves in the state outside of Yellowstone, "shoot on sight" would not be allowed.

[neverforget]

23. Here ya go

CHEYENNE - U.S. and state officials said Thursday they were close to reaching a deal over how to end federal protections for wolves in Wyoming.

However, environmental groups criticized the proposal that would allow wolves to be shot on sight in most of the state. They also said a pending congressional proposal to exempt the plan from court review promises to undermine the Endangered Species Act.

Wyoming is the last state in the Northern Rockies where the federal government still manages the wolf population.

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar said the wolf population clearly has recovered in the region and he expects to publish a rule by the end of September detailing how to turn over management of Wyoming wolves to the state.

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_08b97118-a8f2-11e0-9f72-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1RSyKmteS

[NCarolinawoman]

10. Well of course they do.

Not animal friendly--this administration.

Bruce Babbit, the Interior Secretary under the Clinton administration, introduces the wolves, while Salazar (fake Democratic Interior Secretary) wants to destroy them. :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

I just love the thought of nursing wolf pups starving cause their mother was shot on sight.:sarcasm: :mad:

[theaocp]

11. The Starks of Winterfell will not like this one bit, but

the Lannisters of King's Landing, DC, are toasting the new moves by the administration. :puke:

[lpbk2713]

12. Don't give Cheney an excuse to fire a weapon.

Not unless you want to reduce the lawyer population.

[Still Blue in PDX]

24. Just when I thought I couldn't be more disappointed in this WH. nt

[Cleita]

25. It just gets worse, doesn't it?

*face palm*

I remember when the wolves were introduced to restore the balance of nature. We as a species are doomed if we can't figure out that we have a mandate to protect all the species of the earth and not mess with the balance.

[Kaleva]

27. One could let nature do the balancing if there no humans there

With prey plentiful, the wolf population will increase and their range expands. When there's many wolves, the prey population will of course decrease which then leads very hungry wolves either starving to death or to look for other sources of food such as cattle and pets.

[Cleita]

28. Not true. During lean times wolves stop breeding to

keep their numbers down.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

26. While I will continue to call and e-mail and donate to causes that aide my brother and sister wolves

I will also pray

I will pray that Geri and Freki (Odin's wolves) will haunt these peoples' every waking moment.
Then haunt their sleep and afterlife

I also hope that they will be the prey for the Wild Hunt once they pass over and when they
ask their god why, that he/she reminds them of what they have done to the wolves.

These people make me sick.

[Raine]

29. Who the fuck does he think he is ... Sarah Fucking Palin???

:mad: :grr: