OT: Wolf Watch "Part II" - Page 1

rRemember the massive livestock depredation event in Dillon MT last year?  ..........They're back!!!

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BUTTE - Federal trappers shot and killed three wolves last week that had repeatedly killed sheep in the Blacktail Valley south of Dillon.

The wolves had killed four adult ewes over two days when they were spotted in the private pasture in the Rock Creek drainage, said Carolyn Sime, wolf program coordinator for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Trappers from the air spotted four wolves and shot three black wolves before the fourth one, a gray wolf, escaped.

Sime said the wolves were responsible for an attack on sheep in June, when they killed five ewes and four lambs in the area. She said the sheep rancher had taken steps to keep wolves away, but the predators were persistent.

"This producer had stepped up efforts with dogs and herders," she said. "Despite all the nonlethal tools, the wolves figured this out and it wasn't going to stop."

Three ewes were killed and one was injured on the ranch on Oct. 7. Another attack occurred on Oct. 14, when one ewe was killed, and FWP authorized that any wolves seen in the pasture be killed.

The livestock attacks occurred on the property of Jon and Kathy Konen, who last year lost more than 120 sheep to wolves in a single attack. State officials later removed the entire Sage Creek pack after the attacks continued.

Wolves returned to the area within a year. Sime said the wolves were a new pack and not members of the Horn Mountain or Horse Creek packs that were living in the Gravelly Mountains. Both of those packs were killed by federal trappers in the past year after repeated livestock attacks in the Madison Valley.

Reporter Nick Gevock can be reached at (406) 496-5512 or at nick.gevock@mtstandard.com.

 



USFWS embezzled $60- to $70-million to fund Wolf Recovery projects.

http://www.allamericanpatriot.com/content/how-legal-was-introduction-canadian-wolves-northern-rockies

What a great piece of information.  Thank you for this post. It makes you wonder where are all our monies going as we sink deeper in debt. Who is really watching out for us, the taxpayers.

We all but wiped out an entire species, thats something to be proud of. Thats something to get pissed about... Poisoned out of extinction entire packs of wolfs by the thousands... I,ve seen old news reals of trappers with hundreds of wolfs stacked like cord wood many still alive gasping for air, poisoned. 

The reintroduction wasn,t a bad idea,and any one thinking it was going to be easy was foolish but mankind will have to atone for many things.
    

I do not believe 120 lost in a single attact...sorry just doesn't fly. No it will not be easy learning to live together for man or beast since so much time has passed, old ways have been lost.. Takes time to re-learn these things for both.

Actually, it was a matter of a few days, by the same wolves on the same flock.  And it doesn't really matter what your "faith" in the matter is, as those were "confirmed wolf kills" as verified by the fish & game expert sent to investigate.  You'll find the information in the annual wolf report.  When in the last several thousand years did we "learn to live together", anyway?  I do not "believe" that was ever the case.

Darlehret do you live in montana or a area that is home to wolf packs?  I ask because you sound like you are all for killing the packs as most ranchers are out there if i am wrong i am sorry.  To me i think there needs to be a compromise on both sides i know that will be hard but there is plenty of land out there to go around dont you think?

Belief is what you seek if you are to convice others of your point of view. These animals were placed in a bubble along with these people, and now the bubble has burst. In the past both had a certain respect for each other. There are places where man has no business, so too the wolf, the bear, the lion. Each deserves a place to survive, not just man. Each has hundreds of years of catching up to do. You can handle predation without removing a species, and both can learn this way of coexisting that they have over time forgotten. The real problem is resources and wilderness verses the human endeavor and economics. It was always a mistake, the Wolf, Buffalo, Bear, Lion are neccessary, removing them was wrong. Taking all the land was wrong. The greatest wrong was done to the Native Americans. This history is only a couple of hundred years old, not thousands. Some would seek to right some of these wrongs, others see no wrong at all. And for all mans efforts he would do better to leave nature alone, he cannot improve it. There are too many people on this planet. Great minds are formulating plans to improve this too, man removing man. To further that human endeavor and economics. I choose the Wolf.

I love the wolfs as much as anyone i went out to Yellowstone to see them a few years back.  But i also understand that farmers and land owners have to make a liveing but there has to be away for land owners to deal with them without killing them.  If they just put some effort and some of the millions they have it could be done where both sides come out well.  The idea was perfect to start if only the wolfs would have stayed on the parks but they had to have more sounds like anouther species i know.

I like you moons, I really do. You're a good guy. But I need to rely on more than fanciful ideas. Don't get me wrong: I think our imaginations are the reasons that seemingly impossible dreams become our future realities, but not by way of twisting and contorting our perceptions of the past.  And not by closing our eyes to the present situations.