Methow Wolves

[buckfvr]

Provided by the State Legislature my ass......it is taken from us.  Everyone who supported wolf recovery needs to be taxed to pay for the cost of having to deal with this animal......why in hell should we be forced to pay....this state is so assbackward crooked it makes me puke.

[Curly]

Provided by the State Legislature my ass......it is taken from us.  Everyone who supported wolf recovery needs to be taxed to pay for the cost of having to deal with this animal......why in hell should we be forced to pay....this state is so assbackward crooked it makes me puke.

Exactly!  I may not even buy a hunting license this year if I find out hunting license dollars are funding this b.s. wolf sh!t.   (I already didn't buy any special permit apps because WDFW has pissed me off so much).

[pianoman9701]

Thanks for posting that; I was about to do the same and then saw this thread. 

I didn't know that the Washington plan allowed for compensation payments for a "probable" depredation; that is actually a positive.

The first of many I'm sure. 

The problem is that there's not near enough in the budgeted funds to cover estimated depredation and control costs.

[Killmore]

And the land owner says that the state has been trying to buy her property, what does the state want to do.have a game reserve for the wolves. Whats next,buy a herd of cattle to feed them ,all with OUR money!!

[Humptulips]

"Under the new management plan, ranchers can be compensated up to $1,500 per cow for wolf predation classified as "probable." The plan also allows ranchers to be paid up to twice that amount for lost livestock that are "confirmed" to have been killed by wolves on ranches over 100 acres."

Who dreamed up this stupid "rule"?  So the smaller ranchers' livestock isn't considered as valuable as the ranchers who have large acreages?

The reason for that is they are trying to stretch the dollars out in the compensation fund. The larger livestock interests were probably represented when they were making the rules and the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
When I was on the Wildlife Conflict Committee the rules agreed on for depredation by coyotes excluded claims for sheep killed by coyotes but cattle were included. Why? The Cattlemans Association showed up at the meetings the Sheep Growers did not.

[bearpaw]

"Under the new management plan, ranchers can be compensated up to $1,500 per cow for wolf predation classified as "probable." The plan also allows ranchers to be paid up to twice that amount for lost livestock that are "confirmed" to have been killed by wolves on ranches over 100 acres."

Who dreamed up this stupid "rule"?  So the smaller ranchers' livestock isn't considered as valuable as the ranchers who have large acreages?

The reason for that is they are trying to stretch the dollars out in the compensation fund. The larger livestock interests were probably represented when they were making the rules and the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
When I was on the Wildlife Conflict Committee the rules agreed on for depredation by coyotes excluded claims for sheep killed by coyotes but cattle were included. Why? The Cattlemans Association showed up at the meetings the Sheep Growers did not.

The thought that since I own less than 100 acres and if I had cattle killed they are worth less pisses me off too. But I think Humptuplips is probably right, the cattlemen have worked hard to get a compensation fund and the state was probably trying to stretch the budget so they made it more acceptable to the cattlemen just to throw them a bone. 

[turbo]

So now we get to pay for a trapper - update - http://www.methowvalleynews.com/story.php?id=8015