WSU apolgizes for Rob Wielgus untrue comments.

[jkthomps]

My respect for WSU just went up exponentially!

If they fire Wielgus I'd even donate to WSU.

So where do we start to take a que from the wolf humpers handbook, and apply pressure to wsu to fire their lying pseudo scientist?  Ill sign it, ill donate, lets raise a stink and put this *censored* in the unemployment line.

Not just the wolf humpers handbook, look at what Under Armour did with Sarah Bowman after her husband killed a bear legally with a spear... all because people pressured them... death threats and all that crap... I think we pressure WSU to fire this jack wagon. Yes, I am a Coug and send crap tons of money supporting the CAF yearly.

Go Cougs and dump this dumba$$!



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[kentrek]

I love this so much

 

[bearpaw]

FYI - This is the same professor who's studies WDFW has based WA cougar managment on!

Claim that rancher turned out cattle on wolf den untrue, WSU says
Originally published August 31, 2016

A researcher’s statements about wolves interacting with livestock that stirred up controversy were inappropriate and inaccurate, Washington State University says.

As state officials work to exterminate a wolf pack, the university apologized and said it disavows the statement made by the researcher, Robert Wielgus, associate professor and director of the Large Carnivore Conservation Lab at WSU, to The Seattle Times. Wielgus “subsequently acknowledged that he had no basis in fact for making such a statement. In actuality, the livestock were released at low elevation on the east side of the Kettle Crest more than four miles from the den site and dispersed throughout the allotment,” the statement asserted.

full story: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/claim-that-rancher-turned-out-wolves-on-den-untrue-wsu-says/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_left_1.1

[BDildine]

Sounds like there are quite a few "missteps" in his statements after reading

[huntnphool]

FYI - This is the same professor who's studies WDFW has based WA cougar managment on!

 You mean the same study that convinced WDFW that there would be less cougar conflict if the annual harvest numbers were reduced and the cougar population allowed to increase?

 Why am I not surprised!

[DOUBLELUNG]

Is he the same WSU genius that supplied WDFW with their current cougar plan?

Yes

[JLS]

A sponsor not renewing a contract and a university firing a tenured faculty member are markedly different situations.  I wouldn't hold your breath if termination is your end goal.

[buglebrush]

Kudos to WSU. 

WDFW it's your move.

[pianoman9701]

WSU is the benchmark and always will be.  GO COUGS.   

This is hardly a statement from WSU that they'll abandon liberalism and revisionist history.

[bearpaw]

Clint Didier is on the radio slamming Wielgus big time for causing the death threats the cattle rancher is receiving from wolf lovers.

[WSU]

i wonder if the rancher will sue wielgus?

[bearpaw]

i wonder if the rancher will sue wielgus?

People don't tend to be sue happy in our area, but I sure wished he would, that would be awesome if he won a judgement! 

[Cougartail]

Clint Didier is on the radio slamming Wielgus big time for causing the death threats the cattle rancher is receiving from wolf lovers.

He should go to jail if his actions cause harm to anyone.

You are not a scientist if you have a political stance on your work. You are an activist. The government shouldn't be paying activists on either side of the fence.

This really pisses me off. If I want misinformation from questionable sources I can get on the internet and get "bent" information for free. Taxpayer funded information should be truthful and neutral.

[andersonjk4]

I just sent a letter (see below) to WSU President Kirk Schulz.  PresidentsOffice@wsu.edu

Feel free to copy and paste any information you would like and send your own letter. 

As an alumni and lifelong supporter of WSU I applaud the University for issuing its clarifying statement to correct the comments made by WSU associate professor Rob Wielgus regarding the wolf/livestock conflicts in NE Washington.  This is an extremely important issue in Washington and one that should be influenced by the highest level of scientific fact available.  WSU has a stellar reputation as a high level research university especially the animal science departments.  Incidents like these out this reputation at risk and give the university a black eye.  I received a B.S. from WSU in Mechanical Engineering and as part of my education I took an oath of ethics to perform my professional scientific duties without bias.  I would expect that WSU would hold their staff, especially professors, to this same high level of ethics.  I would like to see a full review of the research performed by Wielgus be conducted to ensure his personal biases have not been affecting his conclusions.  I would also like to see action taken to ensure personal biases are kept out of all scientific research in the future.

   

[frazierw]

I just sent a letter (see below) to WSU President Kirk Schulz.  PresidentsOffice@wsu.edu

Feel free to copy and paste any information you would like and send your own letter. 

As an alumni and lifelong supporter of WSU I applaud the University for issuing its clarifying statement to correct the comments made by WSU associate professor Rob Wielgus regarding the wolf/livestock conflicts in NE Washington.  This is an extremely important issue in Washington and one that should be influenced by the highest level of scientific fact available.  WSU has a stellar reputation as a high level research university especially the animal science departments.  Incidents like these out this reputation at risk and give the university a black eye.  I received a B.S. from WSU in Mechanical Engineering and as part of my education I took an oath of ethics to perform my professional scientific duties without bias.  I would expect that WSU would hold their staff, especially professors, to this same high level of ethics.  I would like to see a full review of the research performed by Wielgus be conducted to ensure his personal biases have not been affecting his conclusions.  I would also like to see action taken to ensure personal biases are kept out of all scientific research in the future.

   

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