Wolf Poll by PBS Need attention.
03-03-2010, 07:53 AM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hamilton, Montana
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Wolf Poll by PBS Need attention.
Here's a poll by PBS, asking if the wolf needs more protection in the Rocky Mountain Region. When it started all the wolf protectionist posted and we were loosing big time. Molloy will rule on the lawsuits in a couple of months. I don't know if he would even know the outcome on such a poll but I for one would like to send a message to those that think the wolf should be protected forever.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/609/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/609/index.html
03-04-2010, 07:37 AM
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Fork Horn
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Location: beautiful western montana
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I always laugh when I hear this argument. We have more wolves here now then historical records indicated were here when Lewis and Clark came through the area. The wolves were here first means nothing. We are here now, and the environment is vastly different, it is comparing apples to oranges. Wolves did not have artificial food sorces like sheep, cattle, llamas etc. Elk had room to escape and rarely lived in the mountains but on the plains. The ecosystem is entirely different. I never see any of these folks yapping about indians and wolves being here first packing up their belongings and moving back to Europe. Yet they seem perfectly content to preach to those of us forced to live among these killing machines.
03-04-2010, 11:43 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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I'm ready for them to reintroduce wolves into the hollywood hills or along the eastern seaboard. I have no doubt that the wolves would manage to get along pretty well in those habitats, it just might end up being hard on some domestic animals and maybe even some people.
03-04-2010, 11:54 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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maybe I'm wrong, but when predators know we don't/can't hunt them they don't fear us, and then grizzlies, wolves, mtn lions see us as prey. Even if the season was very limited, at least teaching these animals we mean business would be nice and hopefully avoid us being on their meal list. Certainly don't want to see wolves become extinct, keeping them in check makes sense.
03-04-2010, 11:57 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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Excellent points all around but I really liked this statement in particular.
I'm ready for them to reintroduce wolves into the hollywood hills or along the eastern seaboard. I have no doubt that the wolves would manage to get along pretty well in those habitats, it just might end up being hard on some domestic animals and maybe even some people.
I'm ready for them to reintroduce wolves into the hollywood hills or along the eastern seaboard. I have no doubt that the wolves would manage to get along pretty well in those habitats, it just might end up being hard on some domestic animals and maybe even some people.
03-06-2010, 02:25 PM
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Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 679
i have answered this before ..were i moose and deer hunt i shoot shovel and shut up .. ....BUT where i caribou hunt i will let the wolves walk ...there are way too many caribous and not enough hunters...nature balances itself ....
03-07-2010, 12:43 PM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Kittitas, Wa.
Posts: 462
really?? REALLY???
I always laugh when I hear this argument. We have more wolves here now then historical records indicated were here when Lewis and Clark came through the area. The wolves were here first means nothing. We are here now, and the environment is vastly different, it is comparing apples to oranges. Wolves did not have artificial food sources like sheep, cattle, llamas etc. Elk had room to escape and rarely lived in the mountains but on the plains. The ecosystem is entirely different. I never see any of these folks yapping about Indians and wolves being here first packing up their belongings and moving back to Europe. Yet they seem perfectly content to preach to those of us forced to live among these killing machines.
MAN is responsible for the overall decline of wildlife in this country... nothing else , some hunters killed many more animals than necessary or needed just to get a few more heads on the wall!!! unethical hunters/ poachers continue to kill animals just for the head!!!
