The commissioners of Grant County, N.M. (county seat is Silver City), have passed a resolution requesting that the state and federal governments pay for livestock and pets (allegedly) killed by reintroduced Mexican gray wolves.
The Santa Fe New Mexican has the story. You know what to do.
Predictably, the local cattlemen’s group likes the idea very much. Opponents point out that livestock producers should be required to cart away cattle carcasses before wolves get used to eating the beef. And they argue, quite reasonably, that cattlemen aren’t taking other steps as well to better protect their herds.
The Grant County Area Cattle Growers forgot to note how heavily their cows are subsidized by Americans across the country, through below-market grazing fees and the killing, by USDA’s Wildlife Services branch, of native wildlife cattlemen scapegoat for their livestock losses.
The Mexican gray wolf, reintroduced in 1998 to a tiny sliver of its original range, continues to be boxed into a politically-drawn territory that has no ecological rationale.
Note: The commissioners of adjacent Catron County earlier passed a resolution allowing a designated local wolf cop to trap or remove a wolf if the feds don’t act first.
3 responses so far ↓
Dave Bonta // March 28, 2007 at 9:08 am |
Oh, you took down your fisheries post! I just read it in Google Reader and was going to stop by and thank you for a rare piece of good news — that the National Marine Fisheries Service is spreading a wider net, so to speak.
B // April 29, 2007 at 5:10 am |
Since you think wolves should live in my back yard, I think you should be responsible for these habitual wolves.
I do not use public lands for grazing and I am not a rancher.
My dog had been attacked and my horses chased. These habitual wolves were put in my back yard. How about you take them for a few years. Maybe the latest 2 strikes wolf they just released that bit a person. How about that one for your yard?
Everone loves the idea unless it is in their yard.
find out what is really going on with your tax dollars.
http://wolfcrossing.org/docs/realitybites.pdf
Alan Gregory // April 29, 2007 at 9:09 am |
B, I have no idea where you live. You could tell me if you want to. Now, since I don’t know where you live, tell me where in my posting I said anything about wolves living in your “backyard.” You can’t because I didn’t. If a wolf attacked your dog and chased your horses, you should have told your local game warden about it. Did you? As for everyone loving the idea of wolves in the wild, that’s just not true. You’re making these blanket assertions without any shred of evidence. That’s an interesting photo display you’ve got, but again, where is the hard evidence to support your claim? All you have here are some anecdotes strung together. Why do you hate native wildlife, like wolves?