Part I - Wolf Country in 2010 Jim Beers articles

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Part I - Wolf Country in 2010
>
> It was 1974 when the wolf was "Listed" by federal bureaucrats as
> "Endangered" in the midst of an explosion of new federal laws and
> authority
> over everything from marine mammals to hawks, spotted owls, snail darters,
> and cormorants. Despite the superabundance of wolves worldwide throughout
> the Northern Hemisphere, their romantic status as a "symbol" of wilderness
> coupled with anthropomorphic "biology" from environmental and animal
> rights
> radical organizations made any questions concerning the propriety of such
> a
> Listing both politically incorrect and an indication of someone completely
> out of step with the "New Age" biology sweeping the Nation.
>
> Alaska and Canada have had robust wolf populations for centuries and
> damage
> by wolves to big game herds, livestock, dogs, and the ever-present danger
> of
> human attacks have been stressful factors of life there just as in Asia
> and
> Europe where wolves are abundant. The following report concerns the
> disgraceful and un-Constitutional imposition of wolves by the federal
> government and a cabal of environmental, animal rights, anti-gun, and
> anti-rural America radicals and lawyers in the past 35 years.
>
> The "Timber" or "Gray" wolves that were roaming northern Minnesota in
> limited numbers were the only wolves recognized in the Lower 48 States
> when
> the 1974 "Listing" of wolves as "Endangered" was pronounced. Immediately,
> federal bureaucrats pre-empted all Constitutional State authority over
> wolves in Minnesota over weak protests by State government. Wolves were
> given complete protection and millions of dollars were spent to increase
> their numbers and range. Today, those wolves have spread into Wisconsin
> and
> the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Livestock losses; loss of foals, goats,
> and other privately owned animals: loss of deer numbers and deer hunting
> license revenue; loss of hunting dogs, pets, and watchdogs; visible
> decreases in rural economies and land prices; and increasingly stressful
> rural life where wolf attacks and sightings have placed parents and
> grandparents in fear when kids ask to go fishing or to go to or come from
> rural school bus stops or to take out garbage: all of these things bedevil
> rural Americans where the wolves have become abundant and where they are
> now
> spreading like an infection to Lower Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa.
>
> When government or radicals want to cite "science" about wolf "species"
> keep
> in mind the following. Wolves, like white-tailed deer and most mammals
> that
> exist from near the Equator to the Far North, are smaller in the South and
> larger in the North. Small-bodied animals do better in hot climates and
> large-bodied animals are better suited to cold climates. Prior to the
> Endangered Species Act, whether we called the large ones "timber" wolves
> or
> the little ones "Key" deer was a matter of biological curiosity. Key Deer
> from Florida can raise fawns when bred with big Saskatchewan whitetails
> just
> as big wolves from the Yukon can breed successfully with "little" Mexican
> wolves (or coyotes, or dingoes, or dogs for that matter). So contain any
> emotion when told that "saving" this or that wolf "species" is "vital" to
> some obscure biological purpose. One thing is for sure; the "big"
> northern
> wolves were the ones plopped unceremoniously into Yellowstone Park 15
> years
> ago and are now into 6 or more states.
>
> In 1980, federal bureaucrats declared the "Red" wolf "extinct. In
> reality,
> the "Red" wolf is merely a "wolf" with an abundance of coyote and domestic
> dog genes. However, "Red" wolves (from "re-discovered" captive wolves)
> were
> introduced to South Carolina in 1988 and later Tennessee where these small
> wolves have been killed by local people, and where they have bred with and
> were bred by all manner of free-roaming dogs, hunting dogs, and watchdogs.
>
> In 1995, federal bureaucrats stole Millions of dollars from excise taxes
> collected on arms and ammunition for the exclusive use of state fish and
> wildlife agencies for hunting programs and wildlife land acquisition. The
> money was used illegally by federal bureaucrats to capture wolves in
> northern Canada and then quickly release them in Yellowstone Park. These
> wolves have, in just 15 years, all but eradicated the two largest elk
> herds
> in Montana (The Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd) and Idaho (The Lolo Elk
> Herd)
> and the moose in Yellowstone Park. The losses of livestock to these
> wolves
> have been in the Millions of dollars just as the loss of state hunting
> license revenue (in this period of states "going broke") attributable to
> the
> thousands of wolves now existing in these 2 states is being hidden and
> distorted by both state and federal fish and wildlife agencies that are
> increasingly seen as tools of the cabal mentioned in the second paragraph.
> These wolves are now becoming established and spreading through Oregon and
> Washington where livestock, wildlife, and domestic dog losses are becoming
> common and desperate rural residents and rural governments search for a
> solution in vain. Utah is beginning to get wolves and reports of wolves
> in
> Colorado have been filed.
>
> "Mexican" wolves were introduced into Arizona and New Mexico in 1998.
> While
> a small wolf like the "Red" wolf, these wolves have caused high livestock,
> elk, and deer losses and additionally have begun stalking rural school
> kids
> as they go to, wait for, and return from school buses. (Alternative food
> sources are comparatively rare in that stark desert country.) This has
> gotten so bad that some school bus stops are cages to which children are
> driven and picked up by fearful parents.
>
> While hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by state and federal
> bureaucracies to collar, "move", and rarely kill offending wolves; such
> actions where wolves are abundant are akin to removing your hand from a
> bucket of water and expecting a "hole" in the water to remain. Today,
> state
> agencies admit they cannot "count" or "census" wolves so the question of
> numbers becomes a wolf-"hater" v. wolf-"lover" matter for lawyers and
> judges. Big game numbers are being "adjusted" by state agencies
> increasingly dependent on federal agencies for funding. Just as, for
> instance, Montana bureaucrats claim a Yellowstone elk herd of 6K and wolf
> numbers of a thousand; ranchers, hunters, and rural residents know the elk
> herd that was at one time 30K and was averaging 19K is now less than 2K
> mostly old non-breeders with a paltry 4 or 5 elk calves per 100 cows in a
> dying
> herd in the midst of many thousands of wolves increasing at rates of
> 35-40%
> per year. Hundreds of dogs killed and eaten by wolves increase annually
> and
> mostly go unreported, undiscovered, and ignored by newspapers and
> bureaucrats in the West as well as the Great Lakes States. Small towns
> are
> dying in the West, rural land prices are decreasing as wolves make rural
> living and working more tenuous, and stressed rural residents in "Wolf
> Country" increasingly resemble stressed New Yorkers in traffic jams on the
> BQE.
>
> One ranch is being "studied" in central Idaho and the costs of wolves are
> astounding. Losses of calves and cows plus the loss in weight of
> constantly
> stressed steers sent to market is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars
> per year. The time and work "reporting to and dealing with" government
> bureaucracies added to the work trying to avoid losses in the herds is
> hundreds of thousands per year. The stress on employees and the long
> hours
> necessary are leading more and more owners and their employees to ask "how
> can ranching persist" and "how can I keep doing this?"
>
> While rural Americans are increasingly suffering and growing angry with
> federal and state governments run amok, the cabal cited in the second
> paragraph continues to indoctrinate children in schools and urban
> residents
> with false propaganda. When asked "Why wolves?", the only answer is pagan
> babbling about "native ecosystem" (like Hitler's "pre-Roman plants and
> animals") or "the need for 'apex' predators" as if there were something
> desirable about uncontrolled killing of animals that complement human
> society and animal populations that are either overabundant or extinct due
> to factors that could and should be controlled for societal benefits. The
> truth is there is no good answer to the question "Why" when wolves had
> already been purposefully and prudently eliminated from the most
> successful
> and desirable human society the earth has known.
>
> The truthful answer to "Why wolves?" is:
> To eliminate hunting.
> To eliminate gun owner numbers by eliminating hunting.
> To destroy family traditions like annual get-togethers.
> To further emasculate rural economic activity and health.
> To eliminate grazing on public lands.
> To eliminate ranching on private property.
> To create political-cover "science" to justify more Public Land closures
> from Wilderness and Road Closures to "Critical" habitats and Pagan Land
> Closures like "Corridors", "Wildlands", and "Commons".
> To eliminate the management and use of renewable natural resources like
> timber, forage, wildlife, and fisheries.
> To replace the funding of state and federal agency budgets with revenues
> from hunting, fishing, grazing and timber cutting with increased federal
> funds from the National Treasury that is so "Broke".
> To make current residents of rural communities fearful and stressed such
> that they will move to cities where they must give up guns, ride public
> transportation, and live dictated lives where powerful government
> authority
> is unchallenged.
> To reduce rural land prices as people move away, businesses go broke, and
> new residents no longer see business or retirement or comfortable living
> circumstances.
> To make rural land prices ever cheaper as federal and state agencies
> "pick-up" parcels and Non-government profiteers like The Nature
> Conservancy
> profit from taking "Easements" and reselling parcels to government
> bureaucrats at a healthy profit.
> To grow the power and budgets of federal bureaucrats and agencies as they
> claim more land and species that need "protection" (i.e. lock-up).
> To assure re-election of "concerned" politicians as they brag at election
> time and get "support" from radical organizations for "saving" this, that,
> and the other environmental nonsense.
> To strengthen the State/Federal fish and wildlife agency alliance at the
> expense of state government and rural state residents.
> To create the future (immeasurable and never-ending) publicly-funded goal
> of
> "Restoring The Ecosystem" for state and federal natural resource agencies.
> Finally, to please the imaginings of urban American voters (often a voting
> majority) that controls the national government and many state governments
> wherein the destruction of rural voters' rights in the emerging democracy
> that is replacing our Constitutional Republic has become acceptable.
>
> Thus far, wolves have been the result of urban voters' acceptance of
> propaganda and misinformation about the havoc and ruin that wolves have
> been
> wreaking on "others". The urban voters turn a blind eye to the loss of
> rural America and traditions and cultures that they neither know nor will
> miss. Urban voters and their children are told the lie that wolves are
> tolerable and that a few rural eggs must be broken to make an imaginary
> "ecosystem" wherein they may hear a wolf howl during some future but
> improbable vacation. For mentioning these things I am described as
> everything from a "lunatic" to an "anti-predator" extremist that just
> wants
> to "kill animals". Nothing could be farther from the truth.
>
> But all this is about to change. Read Part II, "Wolves, A Deadly Threat
> Coming to Urban America". The wolves are no longer just for nameless
> rural
> Americans.
>
>
>

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 Part II - Wolves, A Deadly Threat Coming to Urban America
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> Wolves are increasing at rates of 35-50% per year in the Upper Rocky
> Mountain States. They are spreading almost as rapidly in the Upper Great
> Lakes States. As they spread into Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Utah,
> plans are in place to put them into The Grand Canyon and their spread into
> Nevada and California is inevitable.
>
> Traditional means to control, much less eradicate wolves locally, are both
> inadequate and very costly for limited and temporary effect in The Lower
> 48
> States. Hunting is a totally inadequate control measure as the recent
> purchase of 35K+ wolf licenses in Idaho showed it to be inadequate to kill

> a
> couple of hundred "dumb" (i.e. previously un-hunted) wolves. Wolves, just
> like coyotes and dogs, adapt and get "smarter" when threatened. Wolves
> seldom, if ever, come to calls or bait. Federal laws prohibit the use of
> airplanes to kill wolves by anyone but government bureaucrats. Federal
> laws
> prohibit the poisons used to great effect by our forbearers. More and
> more
> landowners from Ted Turner to the widow in the assisted living home in
> Seattle will not allow any predator control on their property. States
> increasingly prohibit the use of traps for wolves (the most effective
> method
> used in British Columbia as this is written). When wolves depress or
> locally eradicate wildlife-food like deer and elk; alternatives from live
> dog-meat and livestock to foals, colts, goats, emus, dumpsters, garbage
> cans, garage-bins, storage sheds, etc., etc. precludes any "natural
> decrease" in their numbers or their spread.
>
> One thing that goes unmentioned about early collaring and tracking (by
> GPS)
> of wolves in addition to their presence at so many livestock deaths is the
> routine nighttime travel through farmyards and ranch buildings. Also,
> wolves use roads and trails routinely, especially at night. Wolves
> neither
> fear men nor do they avoid human habitations or roads.
>
> Consider further that wolves travel in packs as well as alone and they
> easily cover 30+ miles per day. In their wide-ranging travels they are
> putting their snouts into all manner of wild and domestic animals that
> they
> kill. They are picking up soil between their toes and on their hair.
> They
> pick up fleas and ticks from all manner of rodents and wildlife as they
> kill
> and burrow into dens. They breathe in, lick, and are otherwise exposed to
> all manner of disease and infections as they go from pasture to pasture or
> big-game winter area to big-game winter area or rural backyard to URBAN
> backyard.
>
> When wolves were imposed by federal fiat there was a public impression
> that
> all manner of "science" had been used to forecast the results: nothing
> could
> be further from the truth. Disease is one such example of a (purposely?)
> omitted aspect of the future that wolves would usher in.
>
> Wolves carry many, many diseases and infections. I am neither a
> veterinarian nor a pathologist but I can list at least 30 such dangers
> carried by any wolves at any time. Those more expert than I can list many
> more. There is no argument that wolves can carry these dangerous
> infections
> nor that they can spread them far and wide as they envelop urban areas and
> increasingly investigate urban areas at night after picking up the
> following
> infections.
>
> Wolves carry the following infections. Those known to infect humans are
> followed by an (H). Those known to infect other animals, both wild and
> domestic, are followed by (OA)
> 1. Rabies (greatly feared by American Indians, Settlers, early
> Soldiers, etc.) (H) (OA)
> 2. Brucellosis (H) (OA)
> 3. Echinococcus granulosis (potentially deadly and debilitating
> tapeworm) (H) (OA)
> 4. Echinococcus multilocularis (a deadly tapeworm) (H) (OA)
> 5. Anthrax (H) (OA)
> 6. Encephalitis (H) (OA)
> 7. Great Lakes Tapeworm (H) (OA)
> 8. Smallpox (H) (OA)
> 9. Mad Cow (BSE) (H) (OA)
> 10. Chronic Wasting Disease (H?) (OA)
> 11. Anemia (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 12. Dermatosis (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 13. Tick Paralysis (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 14. Babesiosis (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 15. Anaplasmosis (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 16. Erlichia (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 17. E Coast Fever (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 18. Relapsing Fever (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 19. Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 20. Lyme Disease (carried by ticks on wolves) (H)
> 21. Plague (carried by fleas on wolves) (H)
> 22. Bubonic Plague (carried by fleas on wolves) (H)
> 23. Pneumonic Plague (carried by fleas on wolves) (H)
> 24. Flea-borne Typhus (carried by fleas on wolves) (H)
> 25. Distemper (OA)
> 26. Neospora caninum (causes spontaneous abortions) (OA)
> 27. Mange (3 types including Scabies) (H) (OA)
> 28. GID (a deadly disease of wild and domestic sheep) (OA)
> 29. Foot-and-Mouth (OA)
> 30. Tularemia (H) (OA)
> 31. Helminthes (flat-worms) 2 sp. (H) (OA)
> Of the 31 diseases and infections carried by wolves listed above, only 3
> are
> not dangerous to humans and even those (especially foot-and-mouth and
> distemper) are of great danger to the American Livestock Industry and the
> American dog population. An authority on foot-and-mouth has told me that
> if
> foot-and-mouth were to break out here (it is in Japan, So. America, and
> Australia as I write this) in "Wolf Country" it could NOT be isolated.
> Remember the anthrax scare in Washington? A little white powder and
> buildings were closed and fumigated for days by men in Hazmat suits.
> British farms with Mad Cow or South Dakota farms with anthrax are not only
> isolated with workers fumigated and not allowed off the property without
> non-work clothes: dogs are quarantined or shot. What of wolves running
> through pastures at night? Rabid wolves were one of the most feared
> dangers
> in early America. Tapeworm eggs in wolf feces not only infect soil and
> spread with rain or drying, such eggs are carried into homes and onto rugs
> where they last for long periods in wait for a child's hand that is later
> placed into its mouth or a man to eat a peanut mistakenly dropped on the
> floor.
>
> What's that you say? How come Russians or other such people "fortunate"
> enough to live in "Wolf Country" aren't all sick? A fair question
> deserves
> a fair answer.
>
> Wolves are a far greater URBAN human health threat in the United States
> than
> probably anywhere else in the world. Let's compare St. Petersburg and
> Moscow (2 urban enclaves enveloped by wolves) to any Urban area in the US
> similarly enveloped by wolves (Boise?, Missoula? Duluth? Or soon Spokane
> or
> Portland?)
>
> Consider the following differences between US and Russian Cities:
>
> American cities have paths, trails, and walkways interconnected like a
> spider web through the city.
> American paths are increasingly heavily vegetated with "natural" cover.
> American parks are increasingly "natural" with vegetated areas.
> Wolves have very enticing entry and exit and rest areas in American
> cities.
> Wolves will defecate, urinate, and lick spots where food had been dropped
> in
> these urban walkway areas.
> Wolves will snarl at and leave saliva on and near kenneled dogs or dogs in
> fenced yards.
> Wolves will carry and transmit to dogs, fleas and ticks picked up far
> away.
> Wolves will gradually get "habituated" and pose a mortal danger to joggers
> and other walkers as is happening around Fairbanks and Anchorage.
> AND EVERY MORNING IN AMERICA:
> Mom or kids walk "the dog". And Bowser -
> Sniffs wolf feces, urinates where wolves urinate, licks the spot the wolf
> licked, and touches other objects like certain plants or objects that the
> wolf similarly found interesting.
> When Mom and the neighbor meet, Bowser and Buffy -
> Sniff anuses, touch noses, lick each other, sneeze near each other, and
> "swap spit" on occasion as they tussle.
> Then Mom takes the dog into the home where -
> Kids "kiss" Bowser. Bowser licks their face (including mouths and noses)
> and any cuts. Bowser sleeps in the kids' bed. Bowser vomits (especially
> if
> it picked up a bone/hairball up-chucked by a wolf that eats such things as
> it feeds) in the house. Bowser drags its tapeworm-infected anus across
> the
> rug or deposits the eggs in the yard when he poops.
> Stray or loose dogs (especially as urban budgets become tight) will
> further
> transmit all the pathological wolf-wonders around the urban area.
> Even the childless and single condo dwellers downtown will not be exempt.
> What do they do on weekends? Why they "take the dog" jogging or out to
> "the
> country". Those suburban paths, or worse yet those National Forest/State
> Park paths will serve to transmit all manner of dangerous pathogens to
> "the
> dog" to take back to the condo and share with all the urban pooches AND
> THEIR OWNERS!
> In Russia dogs are kept outside in rural Russia and NONE of the above
> mentioned practices occur. Russians and others in ancient "Wolf Country"
> have learned and kept the lessons necessary to survive with wolves. These
> are lessons that we have chosen to forget and deny at our own peril.
>
> No, wolves aren't just for Rural Americans anymore. Urban Americans
> should
> consider facing reality and rejecting the pagan nostrum being spread by
> all
> those mentioned in Part I. Urban Americans should join with Rural
> Americans
> and stop this wolf catastrophe before it gets worse. The cost will be
> prohibitive but it will only grow worse the more we delay.
>
> If ever there was a time when Americans need to come together, this is it.
> If Rural-Americans and Urban-Americans can resolve this wolf problem,
> perhaps we can drop the hyphens and once again be simply Americans whose
> freedoms and respect for each others' rights once made us the envy of the
> entire world.
>
> Jim Beers
> 7 June 2010
> Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist,
> Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional
> Fellow.
> He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and
> Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western
> Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for
> the
> Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security
> Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress;
> twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60
> Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to
> expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan,
> Minnesota with his wife of many decades.
>
> Jim Beers is available to speak or for consulting at
> jimbeers7@comcast.net