Colorado, Pacific Northwest public sessions terminated!!
“A decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to halt public wolf hearings in Colorado, Oregon and Montana has met with criticism from environmental advocates such as the Defenders of Wildlife.
“We are very disappointed to see the Obama Administration and the Fish and Wildlife Service ignoring wolf supporters in some of the nation’s best remaining, unoccupied wolf habitat,” says Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders president.
The federal government is turning its back on Americans who want to see thriving wolf populations restored, adds Clark. “Those who oppose the Service’s premature and short-sighted delisting proposal deserve a chance to voice their concerns. By excluding their voices, the Fish and Wildlife Service is effectively cutting off public debate about the future of wolves in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest,” he argues.
The proposal to strip federal protection of the wolves across most of the U.S. has led to vocal dissent from environmentalists, but ranchers who have sustained substantial economic losses due to wolf kills – many done as random acts of pack aggression not related to feeding needs – find some relief in the fed’s decision.
On June 6, 2013, FWS proposed to strip the federal protection for gray wolves. If approved, the delisting proposal could preclude any further wolf recovery in Colorado, Utah and other states, Clark believes.
He also predicts that nascent wolf populations in Oregon and Washington would be managed totally by state rather than federal government agencies with “no federal backdrop to prevent state wildlife agencies from significantly reducing wolf numbers in the future.”
He cites a poll taken in Colorado this year showing “very strong support” for wolf restoration in that state. Additional polling is underway to gauge support for wolf recovery in other parts of the West, including Oregon and Washington.”
**Special thanks to T.J. Burnham, “Indiana Prairie Farmer,” for providing this information!
Although there is “very strong support” for wolf restoration, the Feds feel it necessary to postpone hearings, to further ignore wolf supporters. Meanwhile, many of these psychopaths, absorbed in their own ego and false knowledge, continue the onslaught on wolves.
If you want to share your voice/opinion with the Colorado Governor, please do so through this link: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/GovHickenlooper/CBON/1251592968310. Let’s flood the gates with our objections. Be civil but assertive! Please also share what you wrote!
I’d like to see even one verified report that any livestock depredation was caused by “acts of random pack aggression not related to feeding needs”. When wolves show aggression to livestock it is always related to feeding. They are either testing to find a week animal to set up a kill or in the act of killing. There is nothing random about it. Show me any qualified biologist’s statement or any study in a peer reviewed journal that shows otherwise.
Reblogged this on Forty Two Teeth and commented:
More bullshit from state and federal governments in their efforts to squelch opposition to a blanket delisting of the gray wolf in the lower 48:
I think this is a disgrace that they don’t want to hear from the wolf advocates, and it adds insult to injury. They are apparently closing their eyes to the fact that hunters are far worse today than in the past. I don’t recall people going out on killing sprees with such unfounded hatred in their hearts, that they are actually a danger to society! Bragging about kills and posting horrific pictures of how the animals are being tortured. This is no longer in any way civilized and something needs to be done about it, with no time to waste!
Its odd that quite a few European countries are allowing the wolf to make a
return to old haunts and yet a large country like the USA is now going the
other way.
Regards Oliver Craig.