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Posted By Formidable 2 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsMany animals are said to define true wilderness, but the best candidate is arguably the wolverine. The reason isn't so much its legendary ferocity or even the remoteness of its habitat. It's the fact that the wolverine is so intolerant of human disturbance.
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Formidable2 months, 3 weeks ago
FTA:
There have always been difficult compromises in applying the law, but over the last seven years the Fish and Wildlife Service has become a hostile gatekeeper, denying refuge to species that desperately need the government's full protection. That must change.
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Formidable2 months, 3 weeks ago
You are welcome DM. I wish the opposing sides could find middle ground and do a better job of caring about our wildlife.
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HannibalBarca2 months, 3 weeks ago
FTA: The reason isn't so much its legendary ferocity or even the remoteness of its habitat. It's the fact that the wolverine is so intolerant of human disturbance.
And that is true.
In one bush camp I was in one winter, the grocery truck came once a week so for a few days we stored some food out doors (it was -40) and a wolverine visited us.
What he did not eat he pis sed on making the food useless, and one night attacked one of the workers (we were warned not to go out, but young dumb and full of ...)and 5 of us went out to rescue the poor guy; only the wolverine would not retreat.
We finally got the fellow in and a helicopter came and took him to the hospital, over 200 stitches, skin grafting and a life time limp, and the wolverine, never saw him again.
And do they ever stink.
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RedWhine2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Picture a weasel -- and most of us can do that, for we have met that little demon of destruction, that small atom of insensate courage, that symbol of slaughter, sleeplessness, and tireless, incredible activity -- picture that scrap of demoniac fury, multiply that mite some fifty times, and you have the likeness of a Wolverine."
Ernest Thompson Seton
"Lives of Game Animals". 1925 - 1928. Vol. II
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Formidable2 months, 3 weeks ago
Some good news:
Wolf Killings Stopped: Federal Court Temporarily Restores
Protection to Wolves in Northern Rocky Mountains
MISSOULA, Mont.รข;; Today Federal Judge Donald W. Molloy issued a temporary injunction restoring gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains to the endangered species list, and thus halting indiscriminate killing of wolves, for the duration of a trial in which conservationist plaintiffs contest the removal of the wolves from the protected list.
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Formidable2 months, 3 weeks ago
The case involves 12 conservation organizations, including the Center for Biological Diversity, against defendant U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state governments and livestock and trophy-hunting organizations that have intervened on the side of the government.
Dozens of wolves have been shot since March 28, 2008, when wolves in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and parts of Oregon and Washington lost the protections of the Endangered Species Act.
In order to garner the injunction, plaintiffs successfully demonstrated that they were likely to succeed on the merits of their claims, and that irreparable injury was occurring while the case was pending.
"The wolf slaughter is halted," said Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity. "We're elated."
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Formidable2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Recovery requires allowing wolves in different populations to reach each other in order to mate and raise their pups," said Robinson. "Even before they were unlawfully removed from the endangered species list, the government was gunning down so many wolves that the Yellowstone population was reproductively isolated, a recipe for extinction."
Robinson added: "This injunction will give the wolves a fighting chance."
Gray wolves were exterminated from the western United States by the Fish and Wildlife Service and its predecessor agencies between 1915 and 1945, on behalf of the livestock industry. Passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973 led to placement of wolves on the endangered species list, development of a recovery plan, and reintroduction of wolves to the northern Rocky Mountains in 1995.
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kboy2 months, 3 weeks ago
The protection of animals is very secondary to the desire by a small group of fanatics to not allow use of property by the owners or to stop some project. Most of these are "do as I say, not as I do" providing money and fanatics providing emotion instead of science.
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mmrhe2 months, 3 weeks ago
kboy
The problem is land owners in this country have too many rights as far as I'm concerned.
I live near a glacial lake in Northern Ohio. A developer came in and built himself a nice fat mansion on top of one of only two brooks left containing a native strain of trout.
No one could stop him because it took five years to prove to the State of Ohio that the Trout were truly native.
Am I a fanatic for denying that fat cat his "right" to rape, pillage and plunder cause he "owns" the land?
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