Can you possibly imagine a super predator much like the black plague in the 13th century going through your home state and wiping out nearly all of your big game animals within only a few years time? Well it is happening right now in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. And will absolutely happen to the surrounding states and all states if sportsmen sit back, remain idle and do nothing to fight the animal rights groups and the wolves they reintroduced back into the wild.
There are anti-hunting groups right now that are trying their damndest to reintroduce wolves into all of the lower 48 states. Their argument is that wolves were here first and so they should be allowed to roam free and kill at will. Well in our opinion humans were here first and its up to us to control the wildlife populations not a super predator (killer) that will wipe out every big game animal in its path if given the chance. Wolves have no sense at all of wildlife population control. There wolves right now in Montana and Yellowstone that are dying of starvation because they wiped out all of their food source.
The elk and deer that are roaming the mountains in America right now have never seen or dealt with a super predator like this and that makes them very easy targets. It was a very bad idea to reintroduce wolves back into Yellowstone and an even worse idea to want to reintroduce them back into the lower 48 states. We at Hunters Against PETA have made this serious wolf problem our crusade and personal fight and will keep fighting this threat until we win.
If wolves spread throughout all the lower 48 states our big game will disappear and our hunting rights and hunting period will disappear.
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Update Regarding Our Wilderness
This article was pulled directly from MSNBC.com
DENVER — The Obama administration on Thursday undid a Bush-era policy that curbed some types of wilderness designations within the 245 million acres managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
While Congress remains the only body allowed to create “Wilderness Areas,” the move gives BLM field managers the go ahead to protect areas determined to have “wilderness characteristics.”
“I am proud to sign a secretarial order that restores protections for the wild lands that the Bureau of Land Management oversees on behalf of the American people,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Denver, where he announced the shift.
Congressional Republicans pounced on the announcement as an attempt by the Obama administration to close land to development without congressional approval.
“This backdoor approach is intended to circumvent both the people who will be directly affected and Congress. I have to question why this announcement is being made only after Congress adjourned for the year,” said Washington state Rep. Doc Hastings, a Republican tapped to lead to the House Natural Resources Committee when the GOP takes control of the House in January.
The order essentially repeals a policy adopted in 2003 under then Interior Secretary Gale Norton. That policy stated that Interior could not designate some wilderness protections on its own and had to rely only on Congress for any designations.
The 2003 policy reflected an out-of-court deal struck between Norton and then-Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt to remove protections for some 2.6 million acres of federal land in Utah.
The policy allowed oil and gas drilling, mining and other commercial uses on land under consideration as wilderness areas.
The new policy creates a management category called “Wild Lands”.
The Interior Department said that “‘Wild Lands,’ which will be designated through a public process, will be managed to protect wilderness characteristics unless or until such time as a new public planning process modifies the designation.
“Because the ‘Wild Lands’ designation can be made and later modified through a public administrative process, it differs from ‘Wilderness Areas,’ which are designated by Congress and cannot be modified except by legislation, and ‘Wilderness Study Areas,’ which BLM typically must manage to protect wilderness characteristics until Congress determines whether to permanently protect them as Wilderness Areas or modify their management.”
BLM Director Bob Abbey said it hasn’t been decided how many acres are expected be designated as “Wild Lands” and whether those acres will be off-limits to motorized recreation or commercial development while under congressional review. It’s also unclear whether there will be a time limit on how long acres can be managed as “Wild Lands” before a decision is made on their future.
Salazar said the agency will also resume evaluating federal BLM lands that could be recommended to Congress for designation as wilderness areas.
The BLM has six months to submit a plan for new wilderness evaluations, Salazar said.
Ranchers, oil men and others have been suspicious of federal plans to lock up land in the West, worrying that taking the BLM land out of production would kill rural economies that rely on ranchers and the eastern Montana oil and gas business.
Their suspicions have been heightened since memos leaked in February revealed the Obama administration was considering 14 sites in nine states for possible presidential monument declarations.
That included 2.5 million acres of northeastern Montana prairie land proposed as a possible bison range, along with sites in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
Environmental groups praised the reversal, though there has been grumbling that it took the Obama administration nearly two years to overturn the Bush-era policy.
“Washington D.C. always takes longer than you want, but we’re glad we’ve gotten here,” said Suzanne Jones, regional director for The Wilderness Society.
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
DENVER — The Obama administration on Thursday undid a Bush-era policy that curbed some types of wilderness designations within the 245 million acres managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
While Congress remains the only body allowed to create “Wilderness Areas,” the move gives BLM field managers the go ahead to protect areas determined to have “wilderness characteristics.”
“I am proud to sign a secretarial order that restores protections for the wild lands that the Bureau of Land Management oversees on behalf of the American people,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Denver, where he announced the shift.
Congressional Republicans pounced on the announcement as an attempt by the Obama administration to close land to development without congressional approval.
“This backdoor approach is intended to circumvent both the people who will be directly affected and Congress. I have to question why this announcement is being made only after Congress adjourned for the year,” said Washington state Rep. Doc Hastings, a Republican tapped to lead to the House Natural Resources Committee when the GOP takes control of the House in January.
The order essentially repeals a policy adopted in 2003 under then Interior Secretary Gale Norton. That policy stated that Interior could not designate some wilderness protections on its own and had to rely only on Congress for any designations.
The 2003 policy reflected an out-of-court deal struck between Norton and then-Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt to remove protections for some 2.6 million acres of federal land in Utah.
The policy allowed oil and gas drilling, mining and other commercial uses on land under consideration as wilderness areas.
The new policy creates a management category called “Wild Lands”.
The Interior Department said that “‘Wild Lands,’ which will be designated through a public process, will be managed to protect wilderness characteristics unless or until such time as a new public planning process modifies the designation.
“Because the ‘Wild Lands’ designation can be made and later modified through a public administrative process, it differs from ‘Wilderness Areas,’ which are designated by Congress and cannot be modified except by legislation, and ‘Wilderness Study Areas,’ which BLM typically must manage to protect wilderness characteristics until Congress determines whether to permanently protect them as Wilderness Areas or modify their management.”
BLM Director Bob Abbey said it hasn’t been decided how many acres are expected be designated as “Wild Lands” and whether those acres will be off-limits to motorized recreation or commercial development while under congressional review. It’s also unclear whether there will be a time limit on how long acres can be managed as “Wild Lands” before a decision is made on their future.
Salazar said the agency will also resume evaluating federal BLM lands that could be recommended to Congress for designation as wilderness areas.
The BLM has six months to submit a plan for new wilderness evaluations, Salazar said.
Ranchers, oil men and others have been suspicious of federal plans to lock up land in the West, worrying that taking the BLM land out of production would kill rural economies that rely on ranchers and the eastern Montana oil and gas business.
Their suspicions have been heightened since memos leaked in February revealed the Obama administration was considering 14 sites in nine states for possible presidential monument declarations.
That included 2.5 million acres of northeastern Montana prairie land proposed as a possible bison range, along with sites in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
Environmental groups praised the reversal, though there has been grumbling that it took the Obama administration nearly two years to overturn the Bush-era policy.
“Washington D.C. always takes longer than you want, but we’re glad we’ve gotten here,” said Suzanne Jones, regional director for The Wilderness Society.
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Group Pushing for Wolves to be Put Back into all lower 48 States
This article was pulled directly from ‘Heraldextra.com’
BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmentalists said Tuesday they intend to sue the Obama administration to force it to restore gray wolves across the lower 48 states — even as Republicans in Congress sought unsuccessfully to strip the animals of protection.
The Center for Biological Diversity said in a formal notice to the Interior Department that it will sue the agency in 60 days unless the government crafts a plan to bring back wolves throughout their historical range.
“Wolves once roamed nearly the whole country and down into Mexico, but at this point there just in a fraction of that range,” said Noah Greenwald, director of endangered species for the Center for Biological Diversity.
About 6,000 wolves live in the lower 48 states. They are protected from hunting except in Alaska.
Biologists for the Arizona-based group argue there is enough wild habitat to support thousands of wolves in New England and New York, the southern Rocky Mountains, parts of Colorado and the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washington.
But prospects for new wolf packs in other parts of the country are uncertain at best, given how polarized the debate over wolves has become in recent months.
Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration has pushed to end federal protections for wolves and turn control over the animals over to states. Lawmakers from states where wolves already roam say there are too many of the predators.
On Tuesday, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, tried to force a full Senate vote on a bill to strip wolves nationwide of federal protections.
The measure was backed by Republicans in Wyoming and Utah, but failed in the face of Democratic objections.
Wolves were poisoned and trapped to near-extermination in the United States in the last century. They have bounced back in some wilderness areas over the last few decades, in part through government-sponsored reintroduction programs.
Crapo said the growing population of wolves in the Northern Rockies — more than 1,700 at the end of 2009 — was harming big game herds and domestic livestock.
“The longer we wait to resolve this issue, the more difficult it’s going to be,” he said.
But Sen. Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said the Republican bill would undermine the Endangered Species Act. He criticized what he called an attempt “to solve politically what should be done by good science.”
Cardin suggested he would support a compromise pushed by Montana lawmakers and the administration that would limit the scope of the bill to include only wolves in the Northern Rockies.
Crapo said that proposal was unacceptable because it would have forced Idaho to change the way it manages the animals.
Public hunts for wolves were allowed briefly in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in recent years. Those were halted after the federal government was rebuffed by the courts in several attempts to take the animal off the endangered list.
Judges have ruled that the government has not proved existing wolf numbers would ensure the population’s long-term survival.
Wolves are notorious predators. Experts say they could survive in most of the country if they were allowed. But a hunger for livestock often gets the animals into trouble, particularly in the Northern Rockies where ranches and wolf territories often overlap.
Young adult wolves sometimes travel hundreds of miles when looking to establish a new territory. In the last several years, packs have gained a toehold in parts of Oregon and Washington. Others have been spotted in Colorado, Utah and northern New England.
“We’ve learned from where wolves have been reintroduced that they have a tremendous benefit,” Greenwald, of the Center for Biological Diversity, said. “They force elk to move around more, which allows riparian vegetation to come back and increases songbirds, and they control coyote populations.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently analyzing research into wolf genetics to see how populations in different parts of the country relate to one another.
Agency spokesman Chris Tollefson on Tuesday said the effort is not part of a nationwide recovery plan, but declined to say if it could be used for such an effort in the future.
He said results of the agency’s work are expected in early 2011.
“It’s designed to establish the best scientific foundation to make future management decisions about wolves. That’s about all I can say about it at this point,” Tollefson said.
We will fight this and do whatever it takes to stop wolves from being reintroduced back into the 48. – Hunters Against PETA
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmentalists said Tuesday they intend to sue the Obama administration to force it to restore gray wolves across the lower 48 states — even as Republicans in Congress sought unsuccessfully to strip the animals of protection.
The Center for Biological Diversity said in a formal notice to the Interior Department that it will sue the agency in 60 days unless the government crafts a plan to bring back wolves throughout their historical range.
“Wolves once roamed nearly the whole country and down into Mexico, but at this point there just in a fraction of that range,” said Noah Greenwald, director of endangered species for the Center for Biological Diversity.
About 6,000 wolves live in the lower 48 states. They are protected from hunting except in Alaska.
Biologists for the Arizona-based group argue there is enough wild habitat to support thousands of wolves in New England and New York, the southern Rocky Mountains, parts of Colorado and the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washington.
But prospects for new wolf packs in other parts of the country are uncertain at best, given how polarized the debate over wolves has become in recent months.
Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration has pushed to end federal protections for wolves and turn control over the animals over to states. Lawmakers from states where wolves already roam say there are too many of the predators.
On Tuesday, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, tried to force a full Senate vote on a bill to strip wolves nationwide of federal protections.
The measure was backed by Republicans in Wyoming and Utah, but failed in the face of Democratic objections.
Wolves were poisoned and trapped to near-extermination in the United States in the last century. They have bounced back in some wilderness areas over the last few decades, in part through government-sponsored reintroduction programs.
Crapo said the growing population of wolves in the Northern Rockies — more than 1,700 at the end of 2009 — was harming big game herds and domestic livestock.
“The longer we wait to resolve this issue, the more difficult it’s going to be,” he said.
But Sen. Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said the Republican bill would undermine the Endangered Species Act. He criticized what he called an attempt “to solve politically what should be done by good science.”
Cardin suggested he would support a compromise pushed by Montana lawmakers and the administration that would limit the scope of the bill to include only wolves in the Northern Rockies.
Crapo said that proposal was unacceptable because it would have forced Idaho to change the way it manages the animals.
Public hunts for wolves were allowed briefly in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in recent years. Those were halted after the federal government was rebuffed by the courts in several attempts to take the animal off the endangered list.
Judges have ruled that the government has not proved existing wolf numbers would ensure the population’s long-term survival.
Wolves are notorious predators. Experts say they could survive in most of the country if they were allowed. But a hunger for livestock often gets the animals into trouble, particularly in the Northern Rockies where ranches and wolf territories often overlap.
Young adult wolves sometimes travel hundreds of miles when looking to establish a new territory. In the last several years, packs have gained a toehold in parts of Oregon and Washington. Others have been spotted in Colorado, Utah and northern New England.
“We’ve learned from where wolves have been reintroduced that they have a tremendous benefit,” Greenwald, of the Center for Biological Diversity, said. “They force elk to move around more, which allows riparian vegetation to come back and increases songbirds, and they control coyote populations.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently analyzing research into wolf genetics to see how populations in different parts of the country relate to one another.
Agency spokesman Chris Tollefson on Tuesday said the effort is not part of a nationwide recovery plan, but declined to say if it could be used for such an effort in the future.
He said results of the agency’s work are expected in early 2011.
“It’s designed to establish the best scientific foundation to make future management decisions about wolves. That’s about all I can say about it at this point,” Tollefson said.
We will fight this and do whatever it takes to stop wolves from being reintroduced back into the 48. – Hunters Against PETA
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
New Mexican Wolf Dies
This article was pulled directly from NewsWest9.com
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a Mexican gray wolf found dead in southwestern New Mexico in October probably died of an intestinal rupture.
A preliminary report says the female wolf from the Morgart pack ingested a plastic ear tag commonly used on domestic cattle and that a rupture in the small intestines likely killed the animal.
An analysis found no sign of cattle hair in the wolf’s digestive tract, and officials had no reports of wolf-related cattle depredations in the area.
Fish and Wildlife law enforcement says the wolf’s death appears to be accidental.
The agency wasn’t able to determine how the animal swallowed an ear tag.
The federal government began releasing wolves in 1998 along the Arizona-New Mexico border in an effort to establish a wild population.
We wonder where the cow is that was wearing that plastic ear tag? – Hunters Against PETA
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a Mexican gray wolf found dead in southwestern New Mexico in October probably died of an intestinal rupture.
A preliminary report says the female wolf from the Morgart pack ingested a plastic ear tag commonly used on domestic cattle and that a rupture in the small intestines likely killed the animal.
An analysis found no sign of cattle hair in the wolf’s digestive tract, and officials had no reports of wolf-related cattle depredations in the area.
Fish and Wildlife law enforcement says the wolf’s death appears to be accidental.
The agency wasn’t able to determine how the animal swallowed an ear tag.
The federal government began releasing wolves in 1998 along the Arizona-New Mexico border in an effort to establish a wild population.
We wonder where the cow is that was wearing that plastic ear tag? – Hunters Against PETA
http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com
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