Wolves in Oregon
Wolves have been mass slaughtering lambs in NE Oregon. Since Tuesday 23 lambs have been wolf-killed in Keating Valley near Baker City.
Sheep ranching is a legal business, well-respected, and productive of food and clothing.
However, to radical pro-wolf crazies such as the U.S. Congress (motto: We’re All Barking Idiots) the very thought of another human being enjoying a successful business, garnering respect, and providing necessities is anathema. Therefore, the radical crazies such as the U.S. Congress (motto: We Vant to Kill Amerika) are totally jazzed that their blood-thirsty wolfies are slaughtering lambs in Oregon. After all, it was radical crazies such as the U.S. Congress (motto: Burn Baby Burn) that dumped the wolves there in the first place.
There will be no elimination of the wolves. They are a “protected” species because barking lunatics such as the U.S. Congress (motto: Death to Human Amerika) declared the common wolf, wolf-dog, and wolf-ote to be “at risk” of extinction, a total lie, a Big Lie, and a sick, sick perversion of the actual truth.
The sheep ranchers are just sh*t out of luck because the radical crazies that have usurped self-government in this country have promulgated oppressive laws that give killer foreign hybrid wolves more rights than human U.S. citizens.
From the Baker City Herald:
Photos confirm wolves killed Keating lambs
by ED MERRIMAN, Baker City Herald, April 15, 2009 [here]
A motion-sensing camera photographed a pair of wolves before daylight Monday at the Jacobs ranch in Keating Valley, where 23 lambs have been killed since Thursday.
“This is the first confirmed depredation of livestock by wolves in Oregon” since the predators, which were extirpated from the state about 1946, returned in 1999, said Russ Morgan, wolf coordinator with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. …
His goal now is to trap the wolves so he can fit them with radio-transmitting collars, which would allow ODFW to monitor their movements and alert Curt and Annie Jacobs if the wolves return to the ranch. …
Morgan said that if biologists trap any wolves, they will release the animals nearby, rather than taking the wolves to Idaho.
So there you go. No protection whatsoever for the humans, but $millions are being spent by radical crazy government functionaries to coddle the blood-thirsty killer wolves.
Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves Delisted, Again
It has been a rocky road for the Rocky Mountain wolves. Today the “Distinct Population Segment” (DPS) of Northern Rocky Mountain (NRM) wolves was removed (again) from the Endangered Species list, with the exception of Wyoming wolves.
The NRM Wolf Delisting Rule was filed in the National Register this morning, April 2, 2009. The rule becomes effective May 04, 2009 (unless there is a lawsuit, and that has been virtually guaranteed [here]).
The Fed Register statement is [here]. It is 56 pages long (pp 15123 to 15188). The USFWS had a lot to say about this delisting. We are still studying the statement (we find it interesting, which says something about us as well as the USFWS). Be that as it may, the nitty gritty reads:
In conclusion, based on the best scientific and commercial data available, we recognize a DPS of the gray wolf (C. lupus) in the NRM. The NRM gray wolf DPS encompasses the eastern one-third of Washington and Oregon, a small part of north-central Utah, and all of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Recent estimates indicate the NRM DPS contains approximately 5 times more wolves than the minimum population recovery goal requires and about 3 times more wolves than the breeding pair recovery goal requires. The end of 2008 will mark the ninth consecutive year the population has exceeded our numeric and distributional recovery goals.
The States of Montana and Idaho have adopted State laws, management plans, and regulations that meet the requirements of the Act and will conserve a recovered wolf population into the foreseeable future. However, wolf populations in Wyoming continue to face high magnitude of threats that would materialize imminently in the absence of the Act’s protections because of a lack of effective regulatory mechanisms in the State.
We determine that the best scientific and commercial data available demonstrates that
(1) the NRM DPS is not threatened or endangered throughout “all” of its range (i.e., not threatened or endangered throughout all of the DPS); and
(2) the Wyoming portion of the range represents a significant portion of range where the species remains in danger of extinction because of inadequate regulatory mechanisms. Thus, this final rule removes the Act’s protections throughout the NRM DPS except for Wyoming.
Wolves in Wyoming will continue to be regulated as a nonessential, experimental population per 50 CFR 17.84 (i) and (n).
Our emphasis. We will have more to say about all this after we finish reading and digesting the 55-page statement. Your comments and analysis are invited, as usual.
Siskiyou County Supervisors Threatened by Pompous State Functionary
An unelected California State bureaucrat has threatened to deny the elected Siskiyou County Supervisors a seat at the table in Klamath dam negotiations. Functionary Mike Chrisman, a bureaucrat who does not answer to the voters, fired off his threats because the County Supervisors, who do answer to voters in this democracy, had the temerity to complain about the process and request scientific studies that Chrisman doesn’t want.
Chrisman, the California Resources Agency natural resources secretary, wants to tear down four dams on the Klamath River. He snipes at those who would oppose his grand plan with all the pomposity of a Czarist Inspector General.
The Board of Supervisors is understandably ticked, and responded in a unanimous letter to the Agency that “Both the tone and content [of Chrisman's letter] are inconsistent with the Board’s understanding of appropriate discourse between someone at the Secretary’s level and a group of elected officials.”
The war of words is reported today in the Siskiyou Daily News:
