The Wolf Hide Is Being Pulled Down Over The Sportsman's Eyes!

[bearpaw]

LOBO WATCH
Wolf Lies!
Editorial News/Press Release

February 15, 2014

The Wolf Hide Is Being Pulled Down Over The Sportsman's Eyes!

By Toby Bridges, LOBO WATCH

Remember that line from the 1973 Gordon Lightfoot hit song Sundown? Whether or not you do, it's a good bet that many Northern Rockies sportsmen, rural residents, ranchers and those who work in the outdoors have come to know the feeling all too well. Since about the time this song hit the airwaves, their outdoor lifestyles have been under constant attack. They've been repeatedly lied to, stolen from, and forced out of their beloved outdoors - and the lion's share of that subterfuge has come from the very same elected officials they've put into office and government agencies entrusted to do the right thing to protect and preserve the lifestyle they've chosen.

One thing is for certain, these days you cannot trust anything to be exactly what it has been proclaimed to be - and that is especially true when it comes to almost everything regarding the environment. It doesn't take a genius to realize that much of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming is no longer teaming with the abundance of wildlife that roamed the northern stretches of the intermountain West 30 to 40 years ago. Likewise, reasonably easy access to millions of publicly owned acres of land has also been lost at an equally alarming rate. What makes all of these losses even more perplexing to those who have witnessed the changes is that it has all been orchestrated by our government and purposely instrumented by federal and state agencies - in the name of making the environment better.

Think back, in 1973 the Endangered Species Act was also signed into law, and a number of wildlife and plant species were quickly listed as "endangered" ...and put under federal protection. That's when the theft, lying and manipulation of both science and the American public began. This one environmental act also opened the door to a new and very lucrative scam - fighting and suing the U.S. government by an ever growing number of so-called environmental groups or organizations, such as Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity.

The gray wolf became the poster child for these groups, and to cater to the environmental whims of very few U.S. citizens, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service blatantly lied about the need to save this not-so-endangered species, literally stole tens of millions of dollars to implement a fact plagued wolf recovery project, and openly violated the Endangered Species Act by dumping a non-native and non-endangered Canadian wolf right into areas inhabited by a truly endangered native subspecies of the wolf. Ever since, that agency and the state wildlife agencies in Montana and Idaho have continued to commit the greatest act of fraud ever pulled off in this country.

At the start of the Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Project, these wildlife agencies and environmental groups all claimed that an abundance of wolves would result in far healthier big game herds. Instead, we now have millions of acres that are nearly totally void of elk, moose and other big game. Even Yellowstone National Park has lost 70- to 80-percent of the elk numbers and upwards of 90-percent of the moose population that was found there before the first of those Canadian wolves were released in 1995. On top of that loss, to provide the corridors needed so wolves and a growing number of grizzly bears can freely spread into other areas, the U.S. Forest Service joined in on the slaughter of wildlife and began closing off road access into millions of acres, in a sense creating a number of "semi-wilderness" areas.

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is a political environmental group hiding behind a sportsman facade, MT Senator Jon Tester politically tied to environmental activism. This LOBO WATCH expose shares a frightening look at how groups like Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Trout Unlimited, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and others are nothing more than environmental groups hiding in sportsmen's clothing. - Many Sportsmen Organizations ARE NOT What They Claim To Be...Some Strongly Support Anti-Hunting Environmental Groups! 

Today, those areas and the even more remote truly wild areas that make up the 27 National Wilderness Areas found in Montana and Idaho are the greatest expanses of wildlife wastelands found in America today. So, where are all of those healthier herds of elk...the strong and healthy moose populations...or vigorous populations of deer and other game? Could it be that we've had the wolf hide pulled over our eyes?

Still, we have one elected official in Montana who feels we need to add more wilderness to those dead zones. U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D) (shown in photo at right) recently pushed to have his so-called Forest Jobs and Recreation bill signed into law. On the surface, the bill promises new life for the timber industry, opening up a few areas to logging. But most Montana residents now fully realize that as soon as that bill is implemented, environemental groups will begin their attack to end that logging. The trade off is nearly 700,000 acres of National Forest that would be permanently given "Wilderness" status. When it is, reasonable access into this land will be closed, also making predator control far more difficult. That is exactly what the environmental groups want - and it seems they have Jon Tester tucked away nicely in their pocket.

So, what is the real agenda of this bill? The same agenda as establishing all those other wilderness areas and large closed areas of publicly owned lands - to push people out, to keep people off the land. It's all part and parcel to the agenda of the Wildlands Network...the total rewilding of the West, one parcel of land at a time.

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is a political environmental group hiding behind a sportsman facade, MT Senator Jon Tester politically tied to environmental activism. This LOBO WATCH expose shares a frightening look at how groups like Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Trout Unlimited, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and others are nothing more than environmental groups hiding in sportsmen's clothing. - Many Sportsmen Organizations ARE NOT What They Claim To Be...Some Strongly Support Anti-Hunting Environmental Groups! 

Senator Tester's close ties with those groups is extremely evident. During the 2012 elections, a spurious "sportsman" organization calling itself Montana Hunters and Anglers pumped in some $1.6-million of non-disclosed funds to help get Tester re-elected and to air attack ads against MT U.S. Representative Denny Rehberg (R) who was running for Tester's Senate seat. So...who is Montana Hunters and Anglers, and where did they come up with that kind of money to support Jon Tester's re-election?

Camouflaged as a sportsman's organization, Montana Hunters and Anglers is nothing more than a political activist organization with a very radical environmental agenda. Much of their funding came from the same environmental groups which have fought to close access to much of Montana's public lands. That group was headed by Land Tawney, of Missoula, MT (shown in photo at left) - who has had extremely close ties with the state's Democrat party. Tawney has also served as a member of the Montana Sportsmen for Obama Committee and sat on Tester's Sportsmen's Advisory Panel.

Today, Land Tawney heads yet another new organization known as Backcountry Hunters and Anglers - which continues to have the same political environmental agenda. This pseudo sportsman group receives most all of its funding from anti-development, anti-energy foundations, including the Western Conservation Foundation, which also pumps politically earmarked funding into Trout Unlimited, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and the Bull Moose Sportsman Alliance. If you think these are true sportsman organizations, you need to brush up on them, and one of the best places to start is the new Green Decoys website built and maintained by the Center for Consumer Freedom at - www.greendecoys.com

In recent years Montana has had more than its fair share of phony sportsmen groups and organizations. Another that came to life this past election year was the Montana Sportsmen Alliance. The group is little more than a political activist front for the Montana Wildlife Federation, which is a state chapter of the National Wildlife Federation - which claims to be the country's leading advocate for more wolves and grizzly bears. While the Montana Wildlife Federation proclaims to be a leading proponent for greater public access to publicly owned lands, the organization is also quick to get on board with access closures under the facade of protecting habitat and travel corridors for endangered species.

There are dozens of less than honest sportsman organizations in this country today that have a well hidden politically motivated agenda. Before joining the membership of any group or organization which claims to be fighting for or protecting the right to hunt and fish, and especially before making any sizeable donation to such a group, do your homework. Know who and what they really are, and know their agenda.

When it comes to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the Green Decoys website proclaims, "BHA`s funding sources and leadership make clear that the interests of hunters and anglers are the least of their concerns. Environmentalist activism is the name of the game at BHA, and hunters and anglers are just the facade."

There's a lot of dirty money being thrown around - find out who's pocket your elected officials may be in, and if they are on the take, make a real effort to see that they are not re- elected.

All Rights Reserved.
Toby Bridges
http://www.lobowatch.org    -    lobowatch1@gmail.com

[bearpaw]

I heard about Back Country Hunters a couple years ago and looked over there website. I thought about getting involved with them until I tried to figure out where all the money was coming from. I sent a message to their leaders asking questions about membership numbers and where all the money was coming from, it was never answered.

I suspect Toby may be right about this! 

[huntnphool]

I heard about Back Country Hunters a couple years ago and looked over their website. I thought about getting involved with them until I tried to figure out where all the money was coming from. I sent a message to their leaders asking questions about membership numbers and where all the money was coming from, it was never answered.

I suspect Toby may be right about this! 

Didn't one of your moderators own a backcountryhunters.com/.org website?

[wolfbait]

 The Wildlands Project Comes to Hidalgo County (Part 16)

 

The Sky Island Alliance, Nature Conservancy, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Wildlands Project affiliation is similar to an intricate puzzle. With your permission, I’ll try to explain the organizations and individuals involved in this collaborative effort - one piece at a time.

Having just returned from an Aldo Leopold Forum on El Lobo in Las Cruces, New Mexico, I felt it was time to address why we’re not making any progress in resolving conflicts between those who would like to see wolves running wild and those who would like to protect their economic investments. Designed to bring all the stakeholders to the table, the forum gave everyone an opportunity to lay their cards on the table and make their cases. I wondered, however, how many were really listening and what was achieved?

I’ve attended many a wolf meeting beginning with the scoping meetings for the recovery plan in 1995. Through the years I’ve sensed a majority of the people - at least 95% by personal observation - would like to see respect for each other’s positions and some semblance of “working together” for the betterment of the species, as well as those who are economically impacted by the wolves.

From the very beginning, however, the reintroduction effort has been plagued by an agenda, pseudo-science and faulty history. Based mainly on emotionalism, the program is doomed to failure, unless everyone starts caring about what’s best for the animals, not just their agenda. How did emotionalism gain the moral high ground in the debate?

Environmental groups chose to use university students for their experiment in social responsibility. Finding fertile ground in academia - rebels looking for a cause, and causes looking for rebels - wolf proponents denied historical evidence that wolves kill domestic animals, including horses, cattle and pets; that wolves were known to kill for the sheer pleasure of killing, not just for survival; and that wolves were exterminated by federal and state agencies, following the advice of leading wildlife biologists, including Aldo Leopold. Instead, they chose to demonize the ranching industry and gained ascendancy by essentially rewriting history to support their agenda to remove cattle ranchers from the West.

Once they had the students retrained, they set out to bring them to every wolf meeting that was held in close proximity to a university. Hiring buses to transport them, the students then booed, heckled and “wolf called” anyone who dared to question the wisdom of reintroducing wolves back into the tender desert environment.

The strategy employed by the environmental community is not new. Known as anarchy, the ultimate goal is to confuse the issues and, ultimately, to impose the will of a small minority upon the majority.

Every movement has its radical fringe groups. Joseph Farrah, editor of World Net Daily, likens the radical environmental movement to “green fundamentalists” that holds to be “self-evident the untruth that there is no difference between a child, a tree and a rock”.

This ideology also seeks to move man out of any area that has been targeted for inclusion into a wilderness preserve. Although this is a very radical strategy for most wolf proponents, one must view it as a part of the greater strategy.

As indicated by David Brower, Sierra Club’s first executive director, in an interview with E magazine in 1990, the environmental system was built to move the Sierra Club out of the radical movement and into the mainstream movement. “The Sierra Club made the Nature Conservancy look reasonable. Then I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth look reasonable. Earth First! now makes us look reasonable. We’re still looking for a group to come along and make Earth First! look reasonable.”

Funded by government grants and foundational giving so many groups have now been organized that the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy and even Earth First! appear reasonable alternatives.

At the El Lobo forum I was smitten with the realization that even the Defenders of Wildlife, Southwest Environmental Center and Center for Biological Diversity temporarily dropped their green fundamentalism and were trying to evolve into a “voice of reason”. On only a few occasions did they lower themselves into the anti-ranching rhetoric of the past. Instead they promoted the new concept of a federal buyout of grazing permits.

In the Fall of 2001, Scott McInnis, U.S. House of Representative from Colorado, wrote a letter urging environmental organizations to openly disavow the actions of eco-saboteurs like Earth Liberation Front and its sister organization, Animal Liberation Front. It caused a flurry of controversy and accusations that McInnis was trying to paint all environmental organizations with the same broad brush.

In rebuttal, McInnis wrote that it was not the letter’s purpose “to impugn or link organizations like the Sierra Club to ELF or ALF. The letter had just one purpose: to send a powerful message to the eco-criminals, and their sympathizers, that even those who share a similar environmental ideology deny and reject the use of terror as a tool to promote that ideology.”

As we ate lunch at El Lobo Forum, several of us mused why we kept having round table discussions, no consensus was ever achieved, no problems resolved. We would go home to a flood of new lawsuits, all designed to reek havoc and bring terror upon the ranching community. The agenda never changes.

In the end analysis it must be acknowledged that many mainstream organizations support, and the “fringe organizations” have grown up around, the Wildlands Project. There is an agenda – to implement the plan within our nation. If it requires anarchy, imposing the will of the minority upon the majority, that’s what will be used.

As history is being rewritten by academia and science is being reclassified to include conservation biology, young, zealous ideologists are easy to find. Our universities keep churning them out at an amazing speed. Unfortunately, everyone, including the plants and animals we’re attempting to save, will lose as we continue to rewrite history and force a largely untested science upon mankind.

http://www.uhuh.com/1calfraud/stacks/judymusin.htm#WPP15

[Elkaholic daWg]

I heard about Back Country Hunters a couple years ago and looked over there website. I thought about getting involved with them until I tried to figure out where all the money was coming from. I sent a message to their leaders asking questions about membership numbers and where all the money was coming from, it was never answered.

I suspect Toby may be right about this! 

 He is..... Blue Ribbon Coalition has investigated and spoken out about them also.....Good Post Todd

[bearpaw]

I heard about Back Country Hunters a couple years ago and looked over their website. I thought about getting involved with them until I tried to figure out where all the money was coming from. I sent a message to their leaders asking questions about membership numbers and where all the money was coming from, it was never answered.

I suspect Toby may be right about this! 

Didn't one of your moderators own a backcountryhunters.com/.org website?

Don't know? 

[idahohuntr]

Wow...this kind of garbage would be hilarious...if it weren't so pathetic and sad. 

So...groups like Backcountry hunters, Trout Unlimited, and a senator who attached the rider to a budget bill to allow wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana are the enemy?  That is some powerful kool-aid. 

I imagine backcountry hunters support wilderness bills and very limited motorized access...which may be in conflict with other user group desires...but to suggest they are anti-hunting is laughable.

[bearpaw]

Wow...this kind of garbage would be hilarious...if it weren't so pathetic and sad. 

So...groups like Backcountry hunters, Trout Unlimited, and a senator who attached the rider to a budget bill to allow wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana are the enemy?  That is some powerful kool-aid. 

I imagine backcountry hunters support wilderness bills and very limited motorized access...which may be in conflict with other user group desires...but to suggest they are anti-hunting is laughable.

Laugh all you want, then please explain where all the unexplained dollars they have are coming from. 

Are you a member?

[Elkaholic daWg]

Wow...this kind of garbage would be hilarious...if it weren't so pathetic and sad. 

So...groups like Backcountry hunters, Trout Unlimited, and a senator who attached the rider to a budget bill to allow wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana are the enemy?  That is some powerful kool-aid. 

I imagine backcountry hunters support wilderness bills and very limited motorized access...which may be in conflict with other user group desires...but to suggest they are anti-hunting is laughable.

Laugh all you want, then please explain where all the unexplained dollars they have are coming from. 

Are you a member?

Unexplained??


At a Glance

Environmentalist activism is the name of the game at BHA, and hunters and anglers are just the camouflage. BHA has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from environmentalist groups, and BHA executive director Land Tawney has a history of liberal election activism.

Background

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) represents itself as good-ole-boy outdoorsmen who simply want to hunt and fish and be left alone. But don’t be fooled. As evidenced by both its sources of funding and current leadership, BHA is nothing more than a big green activist organization pushing a radical environmentalist agenda.

Funding

When looking at BHA’s funding sources, it’s easy to forget they have anything to do with hunting and fishing at all. All of its primary donors have extensive ties to environmental activist organizations.

The largest donor is the Western Conservation Foundation, which gave $278,423 to BHA in 2011 and 2012 alone. WCF has given handsomely over the years to notorious environmentalists and animal rights activists, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Audubon Society, Earthjustice (the self-proclaimed “law firm of the environment”), and Climate Solutions, a major proponent of “global warming.” It has also contributed large sums to the Tides Center, funder of all things leftist. It’s hard to imagine Western Conservation Foundation would donate over a quarter of a million dollars to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers if it wasn’t an organization that shared those same ideological beliefs.

The next largest donor to BHA is the Wilburforce Foundation. From 2009 to 2013, Wilburforce gave a total of $110,000 to BHA for a variety of purposes. As with the Western Conservation Foundation, Wilburforce gives heavily to other notorious environmentalists, including the Environmental Law Institute, the Sierra Foundation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Wilburforce’s executive director, Tim Greyhavens, previously worked for the Humane Society of the United States, a vegan activist organization with a PETA-like agenda. BHA also received a $69,000 donation in 2012 from Pew Charitable Trusts, which is famous for its ideological tilt. Other donors include the New Venture Fund ($30,000 total), Conservation Lands Foundation ($26,000 total), Lazar Foundation ($25,000 total), and The Brainerd Foundation ($8,000 total), whose mission is “to safeguard the environment and build broad citizen support for environmental protection.” As with WCF and Wilburforce, each of these organizations have deep connections with the environmental movement, which raises suspicions as to what

[bearkautz]

It is obvious things are messed up beyond repair ! too Meany  idiots ! we are out numbered .

[bearpaw]

Wow...this kind of garbage would be hilarious...if it weren't so pathetic and sad. 

So...groups like Backcountry hunters, Trout Unlimited, and a senator who attached the rider to a budget bill to allow wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana are the enemy?  That is some powerful kool-aid. 

I imagine backcountry hunters support wilderness bills and very limited motorized access...which may be in conflict with other user group desires...but to suggest they are anti-hunting is laughable.

Laugh all you want, then please explain where all the unexplained dollars they have are coming from. 

Are you a member?

Unexplained??


At a Glance

Environmentalist activism is the name of the game at BHA, and hunters and anglers are just the camouflage. BHA has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from environmentalist groups, and BHA executive director Land Tawney has a history of liberal election activism.

Background

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) represents itself as good-ole-boy outdoorsmen who simply want to hunt and fish and be left alone. But don’t be fooled. As evidenced by both its sources of funding and current leadership, BHA is nothing more than a big green activist organization pushing a radical environmentalist agenda.

Funding

When looking at BHA’s funding sources, it’s easy to forget they have anything to do with hunting and fishing at all. All of its primary donors have extensive ties to environmental activist organizations.

The largest donor is the Western Conservation Foundation, which gave $278,423 to BHA in 2011 and 2012 alone. WCF has given handsomely over the years to notorious environmentalists and animal rights activists, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Audubon Society, Earthjustice (the self-proclaimed “law firm of the environment”), and Climate Solutions, a major proponent of “global warming.” It has also contributed large sums to the Tides Center, funder of all things leftist. It’s hard to imagine Western Conservation Foundation would donate over a quarter of a million dollars to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers if it wasn’t an organization that shared those same ideological beliefs.

The next largest donor to BHA is the Wilburforce Foundation. From 2009 to 2013, Wilburforce gave a total of $110,000 to BHA for a variety of purposes. As with the Western Conservation Foundation, Wilburforce gives heavily to other notorious environmentalists, including the Environmental Law Institute, the Sierra Foundation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Wilburforce’s executive director, Tim Greyhavens, previously worked for the Humane Society of the United States, a vegan activist organization with a PETA-like agenda. BHA also received a $69,000 donation in 2012 from Pew Charitable Trusts, which is famous for its ideological tilt. Other donors include the New Venture Fund ($30,000 total), Conservation Lands Foundation ($26,000 total), Lazar Foundation ($25,000 total), and The Brainerd Foundation ($8,000 total), whose mission is “to safeguard the environment and build broad citizen support for environmental protection.” As with WCF and Wilburforce, each of these organizations have deep connections with the environmental movement, which raises suspicions as to what

That is some pretty convincing evidence! If it looks like a dog, walks like a dog, and wags it's tail like a dog, it's probably a dog. 

No doubt there are well meaning hunters who are sucked into these orgs without knowledge of their real purpose. 

[Bob33]

Is it no longer possible to be pro environment and also a hunter?

[snowpack]

Is it no longer possible to be pro environment and also a hunter?

Sure you can.  I would think, though, if you start allying yourself with the anti hunters to fight environmental battles to not be surprised when you are fighting against them later when they want what you have.  Enviro groups will do what they can to get the land first, then kick off the non-desirables later.

[Bob33]

[Enviro groups will do what they can to get the land first, then kick off the non-desirables later.

Every one of them? Am I to accept at face value that every group with environmental concerns is anti hunting? That seems to be the implication of the article: BHA took money from some "environmental" groups, and that proves they are anti hunting?

[bobcat]

Well, I consider the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Mule Deer Foundation to be pro hunting environmental organizations. Heck I'd even put the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club on that list. They all do a great job of preserving wildlife habitat.