Colorado Restoration of Gray Wolves initiative qualifies for 2020 ballot
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Please describe to me how the ecosystem in Colorado or even Oklahoma has suffered without the wolves being there with a historical population they both had in the past?
I’m missing something here.
How are the wolves going to be kept in check?
Every time a state wildlife agency attempts to open a season, the tree huggers take it to a federal tree hugging court to get it shut down while the wolves continue to decimate wild game populations.
Splain to me how the wolf population will be managed by state wildlife agencies when Federal courts shut down every attempt to do so when the state is using actual scientific data to prove the population is stable enough to allow sport hunting that will allow them to control the population.
I fall back to it’s a back door method to shut down hunting big game.
Got to disagree with you on this one Dennishoddy. Wolfs pick off the weak and injured of big game species. They will eat whatever they can catch of smaller animals like rabbits and they do make game more wary so they are harder to hunt. But they do not destroy herds.
"According to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, elk numbers have increased over the last 25 years in every state with wolves – including Oregon. The fall 2009 edition of the Bugle states that over the last 15 years while Montana’s wolf population has grown from 48 to 497, elk numbers have increased from 94,000 to 150,000. Meanwhile, the success rate of elk hunters increased from 16.7% to 21.5%!
Wolves are opportunistic and therefore much more likely to harvest the weakest animals and in turn increase the overall fitness of prey species. Trophy human hunters on the other hand are more likely to kill the biggest, fittest animals."
"According to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, elk numbers have increased over the last 25 years in every state with wolves – including Oregon. The fall 2009 edition of the Bugle states that over the last 15 years while Montana’s wolf population has grown from 48 to 497, elk numbers have increased from 94,000 to 150,000. Meanwhile, the success rate of elk hunters increased from 16.7% to 21.5%!
Wolves are opportunistic and therefore much more likely to harvest the weakest animals and in turn increase the overall fitness of prey species. Trophy human hunters on the other hand are more likely to kill the biggest, fittest animals."
It's all pretty well documented, like Rick said. Additionally, in areas where heards are, the ecosystems have boomed, most notably in fauna. As predators give chase, heards spend more time on the hoof, allowing more areas to grow more food. More food equals larger populations.
Hard to give an example of Oklahoma as our country and ranching is completely different on a much smaller scale. We still mimic predator behavior though. While lazy ranchers will drop feed for cattle, successful ranchers move their cattle around to different sections, allowing the fauna to recuperate. Wolves reintroduced this natural regeneration method to wild populations. It's a good thing.
Look on the bright side... eventually, some thin-bearded granola hipster will film himself trying to pet a wolf, and that video will be tragically hilarious.
Oh look. Wyoming now has a wolf season. $21 tag and a 4 month season. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Regulations/Regulation-PDFs/REGULATIONS_CH47_BROCHURE.pdf
Idaho does too. https://idfg.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/seasons-rules-big-game-2019-2020-wolf.pdf
Much of the hysteria around the feds shutting down management efforts came from the early days of reintroduction when they were bickering over whether the population numbers were right for hunting.
Hysteria.
That's an excellent word choice.
That's an excellent word choice.
I propose they restore them to the shity and county of Denver, first.
Ferrel hog control comes to mind.
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