Heres a grand idea!!! Kill all the wolves!!

People like that just make me so angry

On the subject of wolves, have any of you guys been to Wolf Park in lafayette Indiana? It's an amazing place where they rescue wolves and foxes and keep them in a semi-wild environment. It's an awesome place. www.wolfpark.org/

while it dosent seem right to take them to 100 for the state and back to the endangered list they do need to be controlled. the populations rise because there is an abundance of prey. but when they kill it down they starve and die of disease. and then wed be falling below 100 and it wouldnt be manageable. why take chances with an uncontrolled population crash due to starvation and disease that is much more likely to lead to extinction then management through hunting? too many wolves and not enough food also drives them towards easy meals on farmer livestock which will be a sure death as opposed to a wild hunt for wolves which are rarely succesful. wolves are smart and elusive. not to mention that hunting and fishing license fees pay the millions neccesary for nearly all of the reintroduction programs that bring these species back from extinction. how much have you contributed? hunters play an important role. they arent just blood thirsty, redneck murderers. if it werent for hunters there would be alot more cars hitting wildlife. and thosands of animals would starve to death in the winter because of lack of food. and unless your a veagan you have no room to talk. id rather be a wild animal and be killed fairly cleanly and painlessly rather then being so pumped full of anti-biotics and steroids and fattening grains that my organs literally burst out of my body. and are then stuffed back in by ranch workers. no vet care at all. yes it happens. frequently. and being kept in a cage i cant move in, surrounded by filth and disease only to have my throat slit and choke on my own blood as it drains. i know its unpleasant but thats where your hamburgers and chicken sandwiches are coming from and those who eat them should accept it and leave hunters that are following thousands of years of tradition alone. its the people that sanction the mass farming by not hunting that are the problem. mass farmers and the companys that sell you your food have no respect for the land and animals at all. all of the hunters i know have a great respect for nature. in fact most hunters make more wildlife then they take by planting food plots or feeding animals in the winter when no food is available. that helps more animals lead a happy, healthy life. including many animals that are not hunted. and the fact is that if the wildlife wasnt killed quickly by a hunters bullet then it will starve, be hit by a car and drag itself to a long drawn out death in the woods, or get sick/old and be eaten alive by predators. we dont live in a world where everything is cute and fluffy. everything has to eat. and its not alway pleasant. but its a fact of life. wildlife dosent get to go to hospice to be protected and given morphine to ease suffering until they pass on.
and one other thing. many times hunter gorups are forced to start with such a low number (in this case 100) of animals because they know that throughout the fight with the uneducated people who know little about the ways of nature other then animals are cute will cause that number to be raised greatly no matter where it starts. so they start low so that by the time the nut jobs are done fighting it maybe they get whats best for the animals. or maybe hes just trying to tell his voters what they want to hear. but it dosent really matter, in the end the governor dosent make these decisions. the wildlife experts do. and im sure the recommended 15 packs will be preserved. and the anti hunters will claim a small victory of going from 10 packs to 15. which was the original intent anyways. but now the anti-hunters can claim their imaginary victory, shut up, and leave.
its a similar reason for the cheering and screaming and whatnot. the anti hunters are on the evening news screaming their propaganda. so the hunters have to get their word out in a similar manner. most of the anti hunters arent even residents of the state. they come in to run what amounts to a political campaign.

mother natures natural selection was messed up when we destroyed nature for our citys, fast food restaraunts, and mass farms. and to avoid the extincitons we all fear we have to manage populations. weve screwed nature too bad for it to do it without extincitons.

sorry about the rant. and i dont mean to seem confrontational. but it drives me nuts to hear hunter bashing from people eating a quarter pounder and wearing leather shoes. if your a vegan then you have room to talk. although most vegans i know have a much bigger problem with the mass farming practices then they do with hunters. what’ll really make you retch is the hearty serving of animal cruelty in every burger and chicken sandwich. on a typical factory farm, animals spend their entire lives confined to cramped stalls barely bigger than their own bodies; many go lame from lack of exercise or suffer from chronic respiratory diseases and bacterial infections. Most never see daylight or breathe fresh air until being shipped to the slaughterhouse—where animals are routinely trampled and dragged, hung up on chains, and dismembered—all while fully conscious.i guess id say look into a bit more. maybe its not for you personally, but to say its wrong and bash hunters, while it may be the popular thing to do, is wrong imo. and lets not forget that wolves are hunters.

and for the record i dont even own a gun ( a rarity in my neck of the woods) i went hunting several times while i was younger but was never successful. and i then found i was more interested in observing nature then shooting it. but if i ever have property i can hunt i will. its a source of drug free, lean, healthy meat right in our backyards. but im not gonna get shot by some moron trophy hunter in the public hunting areas. and i would use everything i killed. no killing an animal so i can hang its carcass on the wall for me. most hunters do not care for "trophy hunters"

My daughter has gone to many seminars there for kids where they get to stay there overnight and learn about the wolves and even get to see one of the more domesticated ones close up. It cost like $25 so it's well worth it depending on your son's age. The only reason they open it to the public is to pay for the upkeep for the wolves.

Dude,

The way I read is that the wolves are not causing population problems, or wiping out mass numbers of prey. They problem they are causing is that they are interfering with the hunting industry. INDUSTRY, did you even read the article?

The whole premis of what this guy is doiing is to protect, yes this is true, but it is the industry he is trying to protect, not animals or the environment.

One of these days man will realize that there is a delicate balance to our world, and we have been trying for years to fvck it up!

And as the other above poster said, I too am a bit creeped out by the idea of a group of people cheering when being given permission to kill.

and when they do these reintroductions its almost always part of the plan for hunters to control the populations. its not a problem when the hunters are funding the reintroduction but hen it gets to the point that they are established and are starting to get too numerous they raise a stink about it. if we shouldnt manage our reintroductions then we shouldnt be doing them. we cant just reintroduce wolves to a food chain that hasnt had it around for decades and let them go crazy feeding on prey that has lost its natural defenses against wolves. its all about biology and science. and the environment the way it is today. but the animal rights people only see the cute and fuzzy animals being shot. maybe noone should hunt. and then when thousands of animals litter our roadways and raise our car insurance payments. or when herds starve to death in the winter we can ask the animal rights people how they like it. that would be much better then killing them quickly and relatively humanely and using them to sustain ourselves as opposed to rotting in fields and on the side of the roads. and without hunting for meat well hey, atleast we will get to buy more of those farm animals that are treated so well.

ok well then i guess i would say to speak about your personal feelings. dont exaggerate the topic of the article to draw attention to your point of view. and as a former hunter who decided to take another route it seems like you could have spoken about it in an intelligent way and not called hunters "camo wearing rednecks that want to kill all of the wolves with their big 'ole guns" dont make it out as hunters are maniacs who just want to kill. hunters love nature. and mega farms love money.

and as for the elk population it wouldnt be there either without hunter reintroduction program. just like the wolves. the elk population is in a fragile state also. 550 healthy reintroduced wolves are slaughtering all of the baby elk because they are new to the food chain is not right. should we wait for them to decimate the fragile elk herd, which has consequences beyond just hunting. i think its only right that we manage these reintroductions. no matter what you want to think they will be managed. if not by hunters then by starvation and disease. and lets not forget the reason wolves were wiped out in the area in the first place. farmers protecting their livestock. and it will happen again if they are not managed. i guess it will be an argument that goes on for ever. but as a former hunter it seems you would have a better understanding of what hunting is and how it is used to manage the wildlife populations in this crazy non natural environment we have created. sounds like one of the hunters that isnt out in the woods planting food plots and scouting. likely just one of those that gets the bug when the seasons excitement hits and then spend a couple of days drunk looking for that big 'ole buck to hang on their wall. thats not a hunter. thats a killer. and they dont go to hunting policy rallies/discussions.

oh well this argument will go on forever between hunters and the uninformed who have no clue about wildlife populations and what will happen if we dont manage them. but as someone who gives money to the farm industry i dont see how you have room to talk about hunters. people have been hunting for thousands of years. and mega frams have been being extraordinarily cruel to animals for 50 years in the name of our fast food and fashion. uneducated hipocrits bother me. everyone has a right to thier opinion but check and see if it is based on reality at all before you start throwing it out with exaggerations that are so popular and overused in the "animal rights groups" thats a joke. if your talkin about hunting and not mass farming then you dont give a fvck about animals. or atleast not the ugly dumb ones at the farm that are truly in desperate need of immediate help. to me its like stopping 2 boxers who want to be fighting eachoter because its violent when right on the other side of the room the nazis are waging the holocaust. what a joke. hunted animals are wild animals. they dont live to be old and die surrounded by grandchildren. it just dosent work like it does in the disney movies. a hunters bullet is the quickest and least painful way a wild animal can die.
these farms are beyond cruel to animals. i mean it is literaly hell on earth for these animals. its so sad and disgusting. its the difference between if your dog is suffering and putting him down at a vet or letting him suffer and then picking him up by his rear legs and slamming his head into the ground. or maybe beating him to death with a metal rod. its really that bad for these animals. but hey if you want to support that and bash hunting thats on you. most hunters wont even argue this anymore. it takes years of being around nature in order to understand it, not just watching jack hannah and going to the zoo once a year. and the fuzzy wuzzy lovers from the city know nothing about it and want to cause ecological disasters as a result of their bold and false statments based solely on their emotions and opinions. no facts at all.

First off, let's try to put this in the right light. The governor's plan to kill off the majority of the wolves has nothing to do with wildlife management. You cull a population, you don't attempt to nearly swipe it out. The governor's plan is a political statement - "we don't want the federal government telling us what we can and cannot do, (even if it is the intelligent thing to do)". You
can suck up to a lot of voters that way and it appears Otter is taking a page out from Chavez of
Venezuela's play book.

All wild animal populations are cyclic, dependent mainly on food supply and disease. Adult wolves need a couple of pounds of meat a day and rarely eat every day. If the wolf numbers are up then there must be adequate numbers of prey. Elk, deer and bison are preferred, but they also eat buttloads of rodents and other small game. Yes, they will sometimes take livestock (easy pickin' in a nice deli layout...) and repeat offenders often wind up (legally) dead.
There are programs in place to reimbruse farmers for their losses, both from government and from pro-wolf organizations. Sure they're going for the young elk, bet they're getting the old and sick ones as well. It's their job, what every top predator does in the process of natural selection.

Wolves usually have lifespans of seven or so years and in most years each wolf pack only raises a single litter of pups. Dropping the population down to only 100 individuals would ruin the genetic pool and greatly increase the chances of beening wiped out by disease. Remember wolves share all the same diseases as dogs (rabies, distemper, pravo, etc) but have no protection.

If left to their own devices the wolf population will stabilize into the usual boom and bust cycle. They in turn will help manage the populations of what they eat. When man must intervene let it be with trained naturalists and not clueless politicians.

I must agree with dmbfan - the governor is an idiot. My suggestion for an Idaho bumpersticker: "Wouldn't your truck look better with an Otter tied to the fender?"

note:
I own a number of guns.
I hunted for years, starting when I was about 8 or 9 (ended when I was tired of being shot at).
My first job was with the NY Conservation Dept.
I eat meat and wear leather (in my food pyramid cows are sh!t outta luck).
Wildlife management is a necessity and legal hunting is a tool.
Any hunter who eats what he shoots is okay by me.
I have no use for trophy hunters, baiters and jacklighters.