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Gray wolf pack in Washington state will be shot de
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Gray wolf pack in Washington state will be shot dead after preying on cattle
wolf pack in eastern Washington state has been targeted for elimination by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife. KING's Gary Chittim reports.
By Miguel Llanos, NBC News
Marksmen are hunting a pack of gray wolves in northeast Washington state this week after officials decided the entire pack - believed to number at least eight wolves - needed to be killed because of repeated attacks on cattle.
The major conservation group working with Washington to manage its gray wolves agreed that the pack should be culled, but also blamed a rancher in the area for not doing more to protect his cattle.
Gray wolves are listed as endangered under state law because they were nearly wiped out a century ago by settlers.
In the last decade, however, gray wolves have started to re-establish themselves in Washington due to recovery efforts in nearby states and dispersal from Canada.
At least eight packs are now established in the eastern half of Washington, which also has a conservation plan in place - one that aims to restore wolves in the wild without those same wolves preying on livestock. The state compensates ranchers who lose livestock to wolves, but that hasn't ended the tension.
Read@ also a video
http://tiny.cc/sfs7kw
wolf pack in eastern Washington state has been targeted for elimination by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife. KING's Gary Chittim reports.
By Miguel Llanos, NBC News
Marksmen are hunting a pack of gray wolves in northeast Washington state this week after officials decided the entire pack - believed to number at least eight wolves - needed to be killed because of repeated attacks on cattle.
The major conservation group working with Washington to manage its gray wolves agreed that the pack should be culled, but also blamed a rancher in the area for not doing more to protect his cattle.
Gray wolves are listed as endangered under state law because they were nearly wiped out a century ago by settlers.
In the last decade, however, gray wolves have started to re-establish themselves in Washington due to recovery efforts in nearby states and dispersal from Canada.
At least eight packs are now established in the eastern half of Washington, which also has a conservation plan in place - one that aims to restore wolves in the wild without those same wolves preying on livestock. The state compensates ranchers who lose livestock to wolves, but that hasn't ended the tension.
Read@ also a video
http://tiny.cc/sfs7kw
Comments
The main problem that we have here in the NW is that the original Wolves were Timber Wolves rather than Gray Wolves. Gray Wolves are much larger than Timbers' and hunt in pacs rather than alone. The native Deer, Elk, Moose etc. are not set up to be hunted by a pack of 5-15 animals. Check out any State up here and see what happens when you mess with mother nature. The same thing happens when you introduce a non native fish into a stream or lake. In a few years you need to kill everything and reset the zero.
Has anyone pointed this out to the morons who thought it was a great idea to re inreoduce what out forfathers had the insight to kill off?
don't kill them, just trap them and move them.....to Washington DC and Los Angeles
You kill me man[:)][:D][:p][^]
spend money to reintroduce
spend money to eradicate
just like taxing tobacco like heck
subsidising tobacco farmers
liberals really have a brain malfunction going on
don't kill them, just trap them and move them.....to Washington DC and Los Angeles
WA HAaaaaaaaaaaa HAaaaaa....that sounds like a plan!I will even donate the transportation if I can get to see a Grey Wolf eat Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid![:D][:D]
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Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
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