'Sickening' Killing of Wolf Pack Proceeds Despite Research Debunking Program

[Judi Lynn]

'Sickening' Killing of Wolf Pack Proceeds Despite Research Debunking Program
Friday, September 02, 2016

by Common Dreams

New research shows killing wild predators may not only be ineffective in protecting livestock, but can actually increase livestock deaths

by Nika Knight, staff writer



Washington state has the remaining five members of a pack of gray wolves in its gun sights this week, after assassinating six members of the pack for killing cattle that a local rancher had sent to graze atop their den.

"It's been a sickening week in the Pacific Northwest," writes Noah Greenwald, the endangered species program director for the Center for Biological Diversity. "Snipers, including gunners in helicopters, have snuffed out half of Washington state's Profanity Peak wolf pack and have put the rest of the pack in the crosshairs."

"This wolf family has been shattered by the loss of the breeding alpha female and five other members. All that's left is an adult male and a few four-month-old pups," Greenwald adds.

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/02/sickening-killing-wolf-pack-proceeds-despite-research-debunking-program

[Igel]

1. Oddly, I've heard the same reasoning applied to

explain the elevated death tolls in cities like Chicago.

They removed the dominant gang members and that allowed young, less experienced members to do as they pleased.

I guess in both cases the right course of action is to accept some losses of the population as unavoidable.

We even get a parallel to the "it's actually the cattlemen's problem, putting their stock in the predators' hunting territory." Obviously, the predators have first dibs on land. Applied to humans, it's "we'll police our own community," when little's been stopping them. Oddly, that usually means the predators police the prey; the prey don't do a whole lot of policing the predators.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. I'm with you Igel.

When the indigenous tribes of North America (for the purposes of this discussion we'll call them "predators&quot had the outright audacity to inconvenience European colonists/settlers by daring to continue trying to survive on THEIR OWN LAND, our predecessors taught 'em (the predators) a real good lesson (honest historians call it genocide).

Now these pesky wolves are inconveniencing our beloved ranchers (God I love red meat -- and it's so good for us too) by trying to survive on the last scant bit of land available to them as they've been killed or run out everywhere else -- HOW DARE THEY!!! High time we take a page from history and teach these wolves (predators) a real good lesson too.

Yeah I'm with you Igel, I say kill'em -- KILL'EM ALL!!!

And not to worry, pretty sure Donny'll have our backs on this one.