For more than ten years now wolves have been forcibly increased and spread throughout the northern Rocky Mountain States, the desert southwest, and the Great Lakes States.  The mongrel (wolf/coyote/dog) hybrids called red wolves have been introduced into North Carolina and some pups just had their picture taken in the caring arms of the ubiquitous young female uniformed government employee on Saint Vincent Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Florida panhandle where they are now being raised. Why a judge has even told the Federal government to get busy and force timber wolves into the New England States.  One is forced to ask, "How is it going?"

State fish and wildlife agencies (with one exception where they still work
for the Governor) have lined up behind Federal mandates for wolf futures.
What was always heretofore been a state matter was Federalized by the
Endangered Species Act.  Only a few disgruntled rural bumpkins are known to still reject the government-ordered Brave New World that wolves are helping to create.  Most newspapers report immediately any warm and fuzzy or beneficial wolf-related tidbit while assiduously avoiding or ridiculing
those who question or object to what is happening.

The former Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service when it stole
millions of dollars from the State fish and wildlife agencies and the
hunters and fishermen now directs the Defenders of Wildlife.  The Defenders
of Wildlife (an anti-hunting/trapping organization) was given a primary
"partnership" role in the wolf program during that Director's tenure.  It is
the Defenders of Wildlife that allegedly "compensates" cattle and sheep
owners for stock lost to wolves, but that is a lie that is never questioned
when newspapers parrot US Fish and Wildlife Service/Defenders news releases.

Elk and deer populations are decreasing steadily where the wolves are
spreading.  Guard dogs, hunting dogs, and pet dogs are dying at steep but
unreported rates where wolves now occur.  Centuries-old reports (churches,
papers, archives, writings, etc.) of high rates of human life loss to wolves
in Europe, Asia, and North America are ignored, demeaned, and rejected by
bureaucrat biologists and all their "partners" in Universities and the
media.  State fish and wildlife agencies see no hope of opposing Federal
programs enforced by Federal agents while smelling the "benefits" of
acquiescence (Federal funding for new programs and the "friendship" of
Federal agencies and the environmental/animal rights radicals).  Wolf
numbers are purposely and routinely underestimated to make association with growing depredations and game animal disappearances all but impossible.  A gullible "general public" laughingly questions the sanity of our forefathers (and other societies like Britain and Ireland) that exterminated wolves and current societies such as Russia that continue to kill wolves when and where possible.

As I write this, elk herds and moose and bighorn sheep numbers sufficient to
support annual hunting are disappearing in the northern Rockies.  Academics and state bureaucrats say it isn't the wolves and that "research" is needed and that Parvo (a disease of domestic dogs) has killed all the wolf pups around Yellowstone.  This latter is totally unproved, unlikely, and a likely
convenient lie of the moment to divert blame for the demise of hunting on
the wolves.  Coincidentally, domestic sheep numbers are decreasing because the Federal wolves and the Federal grizzly (similarly dangerous, harmful, and forcibly introduced) are killing too many of the flocks to allow ranchers to make a living.  Likewise cattle ranching is becoming less and less able to support ranch families due to the losses of cattle.

In the Great Lakes states the wolves are also killing livestock and
decreasing deer herds and killing dogs.  Again, wolf numbers and the
magnitude of the damage they cause are routinely underestimated by state
bureaucrats and wolf-loving volunteer counters to forestall any objections
to the Federal mandates.

The story is the same in the Southwest.  The only difference in New England
and the South will be that the presence of millions of privately owned land
parcels will make the inevitable and coming clamor for controls and (I
believe) eventual re-eradication even more problematic. Aerial hunting bans,
poison bans, trapping bans alone are all but impossible impediments, when
faced with landowners that forbid control, control of wolves becomes an
impossibility.

In the midst of all this, the states of Idaho and Montana trumpet that they
have "signed an agreement" with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to manage their wolves.  While it is heartening to know that a rancher can now kill a wolf trying to kill his livestock (it says how far we have come that this reasonable and justified act by an American citizen is a publicized "favor" granted by the Federal government to a state government to parcel out to certain state residents); it is a mirage.  If the next President is "green" or some politicians need votes for the next election or a President needs
some "caring and sensitive" publicity to divert us from some matter, the
"agreement" can be erased in a New York second.  A challenge by Federal
bureaucrats (for favors from radicals) or a lawsuit by the radicals before a
friendly court is all it takes.  This entire wolf travesty is based on flawed law (the Endangered Species Act) and anyone who thinks dancing with Federal bureaucrats or believing in the word of outfits like Defenders or some political appointees of a past Administration trumps law is smoking something.  As long as the law stands as written things will only get worse.

Don't believe that wolves aren't every bit as dangerous as depicted in lurid
old novels.  When the elk and deer are gone (or greatly diminished) what
will the more numerous wolves eat (especially in the winter), mice?
Remember, wolves are all but impossible to hunt casually and real control of
strong populations takes determination and commitment way beyond what
Americans will tolerate today.  If you have ever believed about danger from
free-roaming breeds of dogs like pit bulls or rottweillers, ask yourself why
you think their wild, far larger, and far more powerful cousins are not a
far more dangerous threat.  To this day, attacks by wolves on humans are
occurring in the Ukraine, across Siberia, in central Asia in India and even
recently in Saskatchewan.  The fact that no one mentions them does not mean they do not occur.

As our wolf populations "mature" and increase in the midst of the American
countryside from the most isolated areas to suburbs, human attacks and harms to increasing numbers of non-urban residents will occur.  Believing that wolves will magically die off when they exhaust their current food supply is like believing that seals disappear when salmon decrease (they don't) or killer whales disappear when they depress seal populations (they start eating sea otters).

The cumulative effect of all this will be closed school bus stops, reduced
rural recreation, financially strapped rural communities (think spotted owls
& Oregon lumber/sawmill communities), stressed rural residents (think
grandparents and grandchildren), dead dogs (why do you think British dog
owners put spike collars on their dogs hundreds of years ago?), increased
government land ownership as ranchers and others sell out.  I could go on
here.  For instance, think about the loss of hunting and fishing revenue to
states and the millions they will have to spend on wolf complaints.

So folks, IT WORKED!  "It" was never about wolves or "native ecosystems" or "natural processes" or even "restoring a lost world" anymore than the
spotted owl was about "saving" an owl.

"It" was always about eliminating one more chunk of hunting (big game,
hunting with dogs, hunting alone, etc.) and eliminating sheep and cattle
ranching on both public and private land and eliminating rural dog ownership
and rural homesteads and rural communities and rural school bus stops and
rural land ownership (except for the very rich.  Oh and one more thing, the
power of the Federal government and the subservience of state powers to
Federal mandates.  This latter has always meant more money, employees, and power to bureaucrats and votes for "concerned" Federal politicians as well as state politicians that "get more Federal money" (so our state taxes don't get raised??? - how dumb is that?).

So the all the pups are warm and well fed.  The state bureaucrats, the state
politicians, the hunting organizations (unmentioned because they have been
unheard from), the professor biologists, the Federal politicians, the
Federal bureaucrats, and the ultra-rich landowners (who will keep their
"estates" and buy up cheap adjoining parcels as people move away) are a
litter of pups suckling on the bitch.  The bitch is the all the environmental/animal rights radicals being fed on the carcasses of ranchers, hunters, dog owners, parents, and other rural residents being forced off the land by radicals that want a people-free and closed rural countryside with a controlled urban populous that lives where and as they direct an all-powerful central government to rule.

It must be part of the American fall in relation to other nations regarding
academic test scores across various grades.  We are getting dumber and we will apparently disbelieve what our eyes tell us if some "expert" tells us
to.  With destruction and havoc all around due to wolves and not one single
positive benefit (hearing a wolf howl or seeing one at the expense of your
neighbors' livelihood or dog or our system of Constitutional government is
NO positive); we ignore the coming calamity.

Like I said, "Who'd have 'thunk'?"

Jim Beers
14 Jan. 2006

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