Comments for The Wildlife News

Comment on Obama’s Proposed 2013 Budget Raises Grazing Fee… a bit. by Mark Bailey

Mark Bailey — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:14:03 +0000

How are we going to make it legal to buy out a grazing permit and retire it? Collectively ranchers are against it according to their Cattlemen s Associations. Way of life and all that. Individually, however, many are ready to make a deal and do something more productive with their time and money than ravage the land. A buyout would take a lot of stress off the arid Western landscape in a hurry.

Comment on Idaho’s Wolf Kill Bill S1305 Makes it out of Committee by nabeki

nabeki — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:05:42 +0000

There could be a first Senate reading of the bill as soon as this Friday. Three readings then a vote, so a vote could come as early as next week. We have to fight this. Gear up people.

Comment on Have you come across any interesting wildlife news? February 2012 by Salle

Salle — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:05:37 +0000

This is one of the reasons why I like Ted:

Stop Keystone pipeline before it’s too late

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/opinion/turner-keystone-pipeline/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Comment on Reverb: Activists Take Over Oregon Cattleman’s Association Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation by Sawtoothian

Sawtoothian — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:28 +0000

Their type is kinda laughable. Always wearing the fashion type that went out in the 1800′s, and they still act like the rest of the country is still stuck in those times.

I’ve never seen a culture more devoid of reality than these groups. They expect everyone to just kow-tow to them as well.

I just saw that Siddoway got his little bill past. There’s another example. Talk about a bill straight out of the middle ages. What the hell? Live dogs for bait? Come on man.. this is just ridiculous.

These cowboys are always at war with the present that is trying to become more humane and more evolved. They hate vegans, they hate those that live light on the land. They hate they hate they hate. What gives with these groups? It’s just amazing how they are basically proud to be the equivalent of the taliban of the United States.

Comment on Reverb: Activists Take Over Oregon Cattleman’s Association Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation by Larry Thorngren

Larry Thorngren — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:57:56 +0000

Idaho cowboys are free to come to the statehouse because most of them are hobby ranchers. They have wives that bring home the bacon as school teachers, USFS secretaries etc. These guys ride around pretending they are macho John Wayne types, but if their wives quit working at outside jobs, their ranches would soon be up for sale.

Comment on Reverb: Activists Take Over Oregon Cattleman’s Association Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation by Doryfun

Doryfun — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:46:49 +0000

DB,

There are only two kinds of whitewater guides, those that have flipped and those that are going to flip (if you tackle hard waters long enough). Nature rules, no matter the confidence level. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

You didn’t provide enough information to help decipher if the gal was crazy or not. Did she run the same line as other guides? How did she act before the run? What kind of boots did she have on? Just because she went out of the boat, does not mean she is crazy. However, if she had hip boots on, that might be an indication of such.

My point is that controversial issues is more about statistics and the better odds at getting good solutions. Confrontational, in your face rhetoric solves what? Fighting fire with fire burns more ground. Eye for an eye leads to blindness. The road to hell is paved over with good intentions. My question is which is more counterproductive and which is more likely to gain better results??

Comment on Have you come across any interesting wildlife news? February 2012 by Salle

Salle — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:22 +0000

I think these are the “nutters” somsai was talking about…

Comment on Have you come across any interesting wildlife news? February 2012 by Salle

Salle — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:34:02 +0000

In case there’s any doubt in anyone’s mind:

Super PAC donors revealed: Who are the power players in the GOP primary?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/super-pac-donors-revealed-who-are-the-power-players-in-the-gop-primary/2012/02/21/gIQAPU3BSR_story.html?hpid=z1

Comment on Have you come across any interesting wildlife news? February 2012 by Paul

Paul — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:33:41 +0000

14 wolves killed for $22,000? That sounds like some of that good old fiscal conservatism to me. These bastards are really proud of this aren’t they? Gunships, no quota hunting/trapping, soon to be live bait, shooting from para-gliders, 10 month killing season. If this isn’t a “war” on wolves I do not know what it is. I said before that their goal is not “management” it is eradication so that there are no wolves left to re-list.

Comment on Reverb: Activists Take Over Oregon Cattleman’s Association Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation by Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:31:32 +0000

The article is a a bit dated (and a bit biased and may have been posted here when it first came out, but one paragraph stood out:

“From the beginning, it was clear that the resurgent wolf population would need at least the threat of legal action to survive. Many of the West’s cattle and sheep ranchers and hunters still hail the extermination of the region’s original wolves (the last were slaughtered in a Yellowstone den in 1926) as the best way to deal with top-level predators that compete with human beings”

http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.9/how-the-gray-wolf-lost-its-endangered-status-and-how-enviros-helped/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=

“Compete” with human beings?

“Trying to survive” with human beings, would of been a better choice of words.