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Old 12-29-2006 | 09:45 PM
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MinnFinn
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Default RE: Wolf, to shoot or not to shoot, that is the question?

I like most people in areas of northern MN who have to live with wolves year in and outsupport controlling their numbers. They weren't "reintroduced" here in MN. They've been here all along. Their population has gone through the roof in northern and especially NE MN in the past 30 years they've been under federal protection.
The biggest problem once you've got wolves in your states is to get the federal bureaucrats to relinquish control of controlling numbers back to your state wildlife departments. They have so many “enviro-no-nothings” who don't have to live with or deal with the problems of too many wolves bring.
If you can get past that enormous hurdle, which we haven’t in several decades since Timber (gray) Wolves reach the federal goals for sustainable pop., then your states I think will be more reasonable in control numbers. Talk of totally wiping them out will only further exacerbate the problem of dealing with the wolf crazed fanatics who don’t want a single one eliminated. Once you’ve got the wolf in your state, you’re stuck. The best you can hope for in state control and reasonable controls put on their population to avoid the heavy losses to domestic animals and wildlife, especially the young (e.g. calves, etc.)

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