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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #240 on: July 27, 2013, 04:04:16 AM »
In case anyone has missed it, please watch the WDFW wolf presentation with IDFG and MFWP. This is long but worth watching to help understand the uphill battle we face with wolf management in Washington.

http://youtu.be/aIjH_bX9h0w
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #241 on: July 27, 2013, 04:15:51 AM »
July 22, 2013
 
Pro-wolf groups hassle agency; Webcast spotlights hunting
 
by Rich Landers July 19, 2013 The Spokesman-Review
 
As if to emphasize the first few paragraphs of my Thursday Outdoors column, seven groups with a pro-wolf agenda, including the Spokane-based Lands Council, petitioned the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife “to stop the indiscriminate killing” of wolves — even though the agency isn't.
 
See their press release.
 
If wildlife managers don't give them satisfaction, they plan to appeal to Gov. Jay Inslee.
 
I'm sure the Stevens County Cattlemen will be at the governor's desk, too. 
 
Any sportsmen's groups out there planning to rattle the guv's cage?
 
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July 24, 2013
 
Wolves behind the howls can be ID'd by computer program

Marc Lallanilla - NBC News July 23, 2013
 
The howl of a wolf in the wilderness may make your spine tingle — it has a similar effect on wolf conservationists, who have struggled for years to accurately analyze the sounds that wolves make.
 
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in England have now developed a computer program that can identify the signature howl of an individual wolf with pinpoint accuracy.
 
Just like a person's voice, the howl of a wolf has a specific pitch and volume. But identifying each wolf's howl has been difficult, especially in the wild, where wind and water can muffle and distort the sound. It gets even more challenging when a pack of wolves starts howling in unison.
 
"They enjoy it as a group activity," NTU graduate student Holly Root-Gutteridge, who led the research, told the BBC. "When you get a chorus howl going, they all join in."
 
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Coyotes, Coydogs and Coywolves?
 
By Ryan Trapani - Catskill Forest Association 7/23/13
 
It is not uncommon to hear someone remark in our region that they thought they saw a wolf. Although what they saw probably was mostly a coyote. According to Roland Kays of the New York State Museum and researchers at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry (SUNY ESF) eastern coyotes do have some wolf DNA.
 
According to Kays the eastern coyote is a newcomer in the northeast. Previously our region was inhabited with the coyote’s larger competitor: the wolf. Wolves had been extirpated by land clearing for agriculture and bounty hunting to reduce predation on farmers’ livestock. Shortly after, coyotes began migrating eastward reclaiming territory previously dominated by wolves.
 
Farm abandonment that has resulted in early successional forest habitat in the last 50 or so years has created conditions conducive to many small mammals such as mice, rabbits, weasels and deer. As many of these prey species became abundant, the opportunity of a predator to occupy this predator-vacant habitat became more feasible. The eastern coyote has adapted to these conditions with shining colors. But is it all coyote?
 
Some refer to the coyotes as a coy-dog. Researchers conducting DNA and radio collar studies throughout New York State and Mississippi have found that this is not true. In New York State, they did find that eastern coyotes do have some wolf DNA. As the coyote migrated eastward, those coyotes that followed a northern route around the Great Lakes had interbred with wolves in Ontario.
 
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July 25, 2013
 
Changes in store for Montana's 2013-14 wolf hunt
 
July 25, 2013 Great Falls Tribune
 
Montana’s Fish & Wildlife Commission recently approved regulations for the upcoming wolf season.
 
For the 2013-14 seasons, hunters will have the opportunity to pursue wolves throughout Montana beginning Sept. 7 for archery hunting, Sept. 15 for the general rifle season and Dec. 15 for trapping. The archery only season will close Sept. 14, and the general season will end March 15. Wolf trapping season ends Feb. 28
 
Wolf hunting licenses cost $19 for residents and $50 for nonresidents. License sales should begin by Aug. 5. Montana trapping licenses are currently on sale for $20 for residents and $250 for nonresidents.
 
New prospective wolf trappers must attend a mandatory wolf-trapping certification class to use a Montana trapping license to trap wolves and can sign up at fwp.mt.gov. Trappers who successfully completed a wolf trapping certification class in Montana or Idaho in the past do not need to retake one this year.
 
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Pit Bull And Wolf-Dog Attack, Kill Lambs; Owner Fights Back With Shotgun
 
July 25, 2013 North Escambia [Florida]
 
A pit bull and a hybrid wolf-dog are being blamed for the deaths of eight lambs Thursday in Cantonment.
 
The two dogs attacked and mauled about nine Katahdin Lambs located in a fenced pasture behind a residence on Cooley Road, just off Highway 29, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
 
The homeowner was able to retrieve a shotgun to defend the lambs, Sena Maddison, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, said. He shot and killed the pit bull terrier. The hybrid wolf-dog fled from the scene. It was located and captured a short time later by Escambia County Animal Control.
 
Eight of the lambs died as a result of the dog attack.
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July 26, 2013
 
Michigan's first wolf hunt will no longer include trapping
 
By Keith Matheny July 26, 2013 Detroit Free Press
 
Michigan’s first-ever wolf hunt this fall and winter will no longer include trapping, after the state Natural Resources Commission rejected the use of steel-jaw leg traps on private and public land as part of the hunt.
 
The commission, for the second time in two months, approved a wolf hunt on July 11 for three zones of the Upper Peninsula. The second approval came in light of the passage of Public Act 21, a bill by Republican state Sen. Tom Casperson of Escanaba allowing the commission to designate animals as game species — a bill critics say was designed specifically to circumvent a petition drive to put the wolf hunt to a public vote.
 
The hunt approved in May allowed steel-jaw leg traps. But trapping was removed in the second approved hunt.
 
“The primary reason was just looking at starting conservatively with our approach in how we move forward with implementing public harvest of wolves as a management tool,” said Adam Bump, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ furbearing animal specialist.
 
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Wolf hunt foes raise most in Mich. ballot drives
 
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press July 25, 2013
 
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Foes of a plan to allow wolf hunting in Michigan have raised the most among groups backing four statewide ballot drives.
 
Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, a ballot committee, reported by Thursday's deadline that it had taken in nearly $568,000 in 2013, much of it from national animal rights organizations.
 
The wolf group is by far the best-funded of four groups with ballot drives. It already has collected enough signatures for a November 2014 referendum on a law designating the wolf as a game species and authorizing hunts.
 
Activists are preparing to gather signatures for a second wolf-related ballot initiative after lawmakers moved to make the referendum's outcome meaningless by passing another law. Top donors included the Doris Day Animal League, which has given $200,000, along with the Humane Society of the United States — which kicked in $155,000 and an additional $180,000 worth of in-kind help with consultants, staff salaries and other aid.
 
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #242 on: July 28, 2013, 09:34:58 PM »
July 28, 2013
 
Wolf impact on big game herds discussed
 
Saturday, July 27, 2013 By Garnet Wilson and Dennis L. Clay, Columbia Basin Herald
 
Recently representatives from Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, along with Dave Ware, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, discussed the impacts wolves have had on deer, elk and other big game animals in Idaho and Montana.
 
The discussion was filmed and is available online at www.wdfw.wa.gov/july182013.html
 
I haven't seen the entire presentation yet, as it is almost three hours long. However the question about what wolves will do to our big game herds is at the forefront for all big game hunters. The video is worth watching.
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #243 on: August 12, 2013, 08:38:49 PM »
Plan to remove wolves from endangered species list on hold     :bash:


http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-wolf-delisting-on-hold-20130812,0,6991561.story


By Julie Cart

August 12, 2013, 3:11 p.m.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday took the unusual step of suspending the scientific peer review of its proposal to remove wolves from the endangered species list, saying the process did not meet the agency’s standards.

The problem arose when the service reviewed the list of scientists proposed by a contractor and was able to determine who the experts were by looking at their resumes, even though the names were redacted.

The intent of the independent review process is for specialists to remain anonymous to the agency, according to Gavin Shire, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman.

The peer review of the delisting proposal has been put on hold for an indefinite time, Shire said, adding that he was unsure how or if the delay would affect the delisting timeline.

Last week the peer review process came under fire when the Fish and Wildlife Service sent an email to the outside contractor it had hired to conduct the review, asking if three scientists who signed on to a May letter objecting to the delisting proposal were sufficiently impartial to sit on the review panel.

The three wolf experts were removed.

Shire said the “optics of the situation” require the service to proceed carefully. “The result of this process led to some of the  potential selectees feeling that they have been excluded from the process.”
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #244 on: August 22, 2013, 08:35:32 AM »
I am jumping into this tread late but I just stumbled upon and amazing well done video on wolves and the hardships they bring to areas that they inhabit. This video is a must watch!

http://cryingwolfmovie.com/

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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #245 on: August 24, 2013, 07:00:24 PM »
The Gifford Pinchot Task Force a group that would like to close the forest and stop hunting is putting on a fund raiser on September 28th to bring wolves into and keep them on the endangered species list in Washington State. This fund raiser is at Lucy's Garden 23812 NW. Meuller road Ridgefield Washington.Would be nice to hand bill the truth about wolves and the problems they cause. At least find some way to stop or slow down the lawyers in this group from shutting us out of the forest.

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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #246 on: September 13, 2013, 11:17:52 AM »
http://bowhunting.net/2013/09/when-it-comes-to-wolves-state-wildlife-agencies-still-dont-get-it-or-do-they-part-1/


Bearpaw thanks you for posting all the links to those articles! :tup:

I think anyone who comes across information about the wolves and their impacts should re post for others to see.  :twocents: 

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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #247 on: November 14, 2013, 02:30:39 PM »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two of the four elected officials representing North-Central Washington in the nation’s capitol were among those signing a letter today calling for removal of the gray wolf from the endangered species list.


#Reps. Doc Hastings and Cathy McMorris Rodgers both signed the letter – along with 73 other members of congress – sent to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe. U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell did not.

#Hastings heads the House Natural Resources Committee and represents part of Okanogan County in the 4th Congressional District.

#McMorris Rodgers represents Ferry and part of Okanogan counties as the 5th Congressional District congresswoman.

#“The full delisting of the gray wolf is long over due,” the letter said.

#The letter supports a proposal submitted in June to remove the delist the gray wolf as either “endangered” or “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. It also opposes listing the Mexican wolf as a separate, endangered sub-species. It is the second letter sent to Ashe.

#The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains in 2009 and in the Great Lake region in 2011.

#Hastings said the current situation has created a confusing management and regulatory scheme that has left some states – including Washington, Oregon and Utah – in the unsustainable and random situation of having wolves listed on one side of a highway and delisted on the other.

#He was referring to U.S. Highway 97 through Okanogan County, where wolves west of the highway are considered endangered and wolves east of it are not even threatened.

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Department of Fish and Wildlife

The map shows wolf packs believed to be found in Washington state as of March 2013.

#Overall, Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife officials believe 14 wolf packs are now present in the state: Teanaway, Wenatchee, Lookout, Hozomeen, Strawberry, Nc'Icn, Boulder Creek, Wedge, Smackout, Salmo, Diamond, Ruby Creek, Huckleberry and Walla Walla.

#Only the Teanaway and Wenatchee packs are outside the 4th and 5th Congressional districts. And the Walla Walla pack is the only one not found in the northeast quadrant of the state.

#State officials culled the Wedge pack in September 2012 after 17 cattle had been attacked in Stevens County.

#“The statutory purpose of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is to recover species to the point where they are no longer considered ‘endangered’ or ‘threatened,’” the letter said. "The gray wolf is currently found in 46 countries around the world and has been placed in the classification of ‘least concern’ globally for risk of extinction...”

#“This is a clear indication that this species is not endangered or threatened.”

#The letter expressed opposition to creating a Mexican sub-species.

#“Since wolves were first provided protections under the ESA, uncontrolled and unmanaged growth of wolf populations has resulted in devastating impacts on hunting and ranching and tragic damages to historically strong and healthy herds of moose, elk, big horn sheep and mule deer.

#“This is why we believe it is critical that you reconsider your decision to list the Mexican wolf as a sub-species…”

#The letter also suggests states are better able to manage recovered wolf populations than the federal government.

#The full letter can be read online here.
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #248 on: November 17, 2013, 05:45:40 PM »
Bearpaw, I'm hoping you can be of assistance...

I commented, on WDFW Watch's Facebook page, in regards to an article they posted today, which puts those who are pro wolf control into a very bad light, going so far as to describe "us" as products of de-evolution...

Anyway, after my comments, others responded with name calling, immature and rude comments, but no facts.  I felt that I responded with facts.  WDFW's Facebook admin then threatened to ban me, remove my posts, etc. unless I provided evidence of what I was claiming.  After providing such evidence, they removed ALL of my posts, but left the posts of those who'd been responding to me...lol.  After contacting them, via Facebook messaging, requesting that if they're going to remove my posts, which were all made in an adult fashion, they should also remove those of the people who were acting so immature.  Magically, all of my posts were suddenly visible again...lol.

Anyway, to the part I'm requesting your help with...you know the politics and science involved much better than I do.  What are the chances that you could either:
1.  Get involved in the discussion
or
2.  Give me the information I need to refute the information provided?

Here's a link to the Facebook post...please read the article WDFW has linked, paying close attention to how the article attempts to describe and define hunters as such low lives of the world...

https://www.facebook.com/WdfwWatch/posts/253389628147885?comment_id=894732&notif_t=comment_mention
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #249 on: November 17, 2013, 06:22:26 PM »
Those people are absolute loonies.

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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #250 on: November 17, 2013, 06:46:13 PM »
 :bash: once again our love dept of bs shows its true colors.

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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #251 on: November 18, 2013, 01:26:37 PM »
I got a solution to this problem don't know if it will work but get everyone to not buy a fishing or hunting license for a year and threaten to extend it. I think this will bring WDFW to the bargaining table because they depend on sportsmen.

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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #252 on: November 26, 2013, 08:00:04 PM »
This facebook page can't really be associated with the WDFW can it?

"Monitoring the actions of our wildlife agencies and keeping the public
informed of issues and policies affecting our native predators
and public lands. "


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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #253 on: November 26, 2013, 08:02:13 PM »
This facebook page can't really be associated with the WDFW can it?

"Monitoring the actions of our wildlife agencies and keeping the public
informed of issues and policies affecting our native predators
and public lands. "

It took me awhile to figure it out but No, they aren't actually associated with WDFW.  Their further responses, on that same post, made that very clear...
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Re: Gray Wolf News "The latest in the Wolf Wars"
« Reply #254 on: November 26, 2013, 08:11:13 PM »
yeah, after my post I did a search of WDFW facebook sites and only came up with two.

https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonFishWildlife

https://www.facebook.com/WDFWPolice

Both say Government organization and have the WDFW logo.

 


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