Just when you thought...Wolves: Fight to keep gray wolf from being gunned down in Idaho & Montana
By Gary Bogue
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 6:37 am in Killing wolves, Wolves.
I never thought I’d see the day when the Obama administration AND the National Rifle Association would both defend the killing of wolves.
That happened last week when the NRA sought to intervene against a lawsuit by 13 conservation organizations to put the northern Rockies gray wolf back on the endangered species list and save it from being gunned down in Idaho and Montana.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Humane Society of the United States, Center for Biological Diversity, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Friends of the Clearwater, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands, Western Watershed Project, Wildlands Network and Hells Canyon Preservation Network.
From my latest issue of “Endangered earth,” the weekly e-newsletter of the Center for Biological Diversity:
“In a bizarre legal filing, the NRA included testimony from one of its members describing a ‘most life-threatening encounter with wolves’ in which he threw snowballs at 30 wolves and they . . . ran away. When will the horror end?
“Wolves in the northern Rockies have much more to worry about than NRA snowballs: More than a hundred have been mowed down by state and private gunmen since the species was removed from the endangered species list.”
Read more about this in a story by Eve Byron in the Helena, Montana, Independent Record:
http://www.helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/article_5a202970-b817-11de-aa80-001cc4c03286.html
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George Kelly
October 18th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Gary…
Stick to pussy cats…you don’t know enough about wolves to intelligently try to defend them.
Toby Bridges
Missoula, MT
October 19th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Toby: And what makes you the big wolf authority? Because you live in Montana? Because you hunt and kill them?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Mr. Bridges comment is not very constructive or intelligent – or so it seems to me. There are always ways to address problems in a intelligent manner. Mr. Bridges sounds like he has probably not considered the possibilities (if he has considered something why did he not state a soultion – since he brought up intelligence – why not an intelligent solution?). NOVA (the television program) showcased a man in England that lives with wolves – he has been able to demonstrate how wolves can be managed, by ranchers, with recorded wolf howling broadcasts. It is effective and harms no one. Does this sound like something Mr. Bridges should look into? I am certain there are plenty of intelligent Montana residents that can figure out a better solution for wolf management other than having open season on a vital member of this local ecosystem and our planet.