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Author Topic: LOBO WATCH: What's All The Hoopla Over Wolf Genetic Connectivity?  (Read 1404 times)

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I HAD to post this up!

"One of the most transparent scams by radical environmental groups, such as the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Center for Biological Diversity, has been the exaggerated need for different wolf population nucleuses to have the ability to move from one to the other without human intervention, and without being hunted, in order to insure "genetic connectivity". According to these groups, wolves require strict federal protection in order to move freely up and down the Northern Rockies, or across the Upper Midwest, allowing the different wolf population centers to inter-breed with each other. Such radical pro-wolf groups say if such freedom of movement is blocked or interrupted, there is a distinct danger of the separate gene pools becoming stagnant. In other words, the extreme environmental groups feel that wolves, without the protected corridors through which to travel, will succumb to inbreeding, much like the Royal Habsburg family of Austria, which only mated within the family for about 700 years - until it died out.

But, has "genetic connectivity" really been the reason why these groups have fought wolf management or wolf control hunts so hard? Or, has their true reason been to allow wolf populations to become so large that regaining any true "management" or "control" becomes too expensive...or too impossible?


(Photo Above Right - Wolves are now showing up more frequently out in open "coyote country"...even without federally protected travel corridors. Here a typically sized coyote is shown with and adult male wolf. A carnivore the size of this wolf kills 25 to 30 big game animals yearly for food...and instinctively kills about as many without eating anything.)

It is what we don't know about the Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Project that would more clearly answer those questions. First, let's look at the wolf the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose for the "reintroduction" of wolves into Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Many wildlife savvy Phd.'s and researchers feel that the agency purposely violated the Endangered Species Act to insure an accelerated "introduction" of an entirely different non-native subspecies of wolf, to insure that this project realized an expedient success - before the citizens of these states realized what a rotten bill of goods they had been sold."
- Toby Bridges, LOBO WATCH


You can read the whole article here with some great photos:
http://bowhunting.net/2012/03/whats-all-the-hoopla-over-wolf-genetic-connectivity/

or here again:
http://lobowatch.com/
« Last Edit: April 05, 2012, 12:22:49 AM by GreyWolf »

 


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