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What to know about Colorado's existing wolves and conflicts around reintroduction planbit.ly/40AfMnRRancher Don Gittleson’s worst fear after seeing occasional wolves on his 11,000-acre leased ranch over the prior year was realized the next morning when he saw what little was left of his 600-pound registered Angus calf near his house.Since then, wolf depredations have ebbed and flowed in North Park, with the latest incident involving two collared wolves killing a working cattle dog and a family pet on ranches 4 miles apart March 13 and 14, further fraying nerves.Here are a few things to know about wolf depredations:* Studies show wolves account for around 1% of cattle and sheep deaths in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.* Wolf depredation is a small economic cost to the livestock industry as a whole, but impacts to individual producers can be substantial.Wolves kill canines such as working cattle dogs and pet dogs because wolves are territorial and view dogs as prey competition.Still, confirmed wolf depredations continued over the next year on Gittleson's ranch as well as six other ranches around North Park.So Colorado Parks and Wildlife gave Gittleson wild burros from Nevada to help protect his herd. More recently, he purchased Texas longhorns, horned Herefords and Corriente cattle, a short-horned breed often used for rodeo roping events, to ward off wolves.Colorado had to ask the federal government to allow nonlethal hazing of wolves. Now it wants the freedom to allow some lethal control.Now that wolves are federally protected in Colorado, the state has asked U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a 10(j) rule, which would allow more flexible management of wolves, including the use of lethal force to address depredating wolves. Will they get 10j?This a lengthening article that I will read at the link:bit.ly/40AfMnRPhoto: Pinterest ... See MoreSee Less

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16 hours ago

Trophy hunting, trapping needs fearless oppositiontinyurl.com/yc8cwk6uWith today's rise in vicious hunting and cruel trapping practices, most arguments against it are about how many wolves or grizzly bears killed is arguably sustainable ecologically. Ought an evolved and supposedly wise civilization be allowing any trophy trapping and killing at all?What are the motives driving such perverse bumper stickers as a wolf in the crosshairs of a rifle scope, with the words, "Smoke a pack a day"? What is it that brings pleasure to those who display such careless language and degradation of a noble creature?Of course, there is the enjoyment its bearers derive from disturbing their "liberal" opponents, who they laugh at as mealy-mouthed tree huggers. But is there not also a sadism for some? A hatred of animals as representing an envied, greater physical prowess than their own? They revere their "takes", proudly photographed with them as though they have appropriated the animals' nobility as their own, while, on the other hand, often having used cruel and anti-"fair chase" hunting and barbaric trapping practices, revealing both a degradation and a paradoxical hatred of them.They thereby manifest repudiated senses of personal inadequacies and their only wished-for or imagined manhood, all the while being - as militant psychoanalyst and philosopher Willy Apollon has put it about men who can't grow up - "like boys playing with their toy trains," only now they're playing with gruesome, medieval neck snare traps and horrific leghold traps. And employing numerous other craven and loathsome acts.However, there is also the contempt that the Left has for trophy hunters and predator killers. A kind of dismissiveness and superiority exists among too many of us. While it is understandable to experience contempt for, or horror at, the purveyors of cruelty who masquerade as grown-ups, it is not enough.photo: @Wolfphotography.com ... See MoreSee Less

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