WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Biden Fish and Wildlife Service Wants to Release Wolves Into Colorado Cattle Country
The Biden Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to reintroduce the Gray Wolf into cattle country in Colorado and ranchers are not happy about it.
This is apparently going to happen because the ranchers are only suing to delay the measure, but it’s still a terrible idea. Livestock will be attacked, it’s an inevitability.
It’s probably safe to assume that the people who came up with this idea have never raised cattle or sheep.
PJ Media reports:
The Government Wants to Release 50 Wolves in Colorado Cattle Country
Joe Biden’s Fish and Wildlife Service really doesn’t like people very much. On the heels of releasing up to 50 grizzly bears into the Northern Cascade Mountain National Park over the next few years despite humans living just a few miles away, the FWS now wants to start repopulating Colorado with gray wolves.
Despite opposition from the cattle industry, the FWS put the issue of repopulating Colorado with wolves to the voters. Proposition 114 squeaked by 50.91 to 49.09.
While wolves are beautiful animals, they are also extremely intelligent, crafty predators who, like other apex predators, will expend as little energy as possible to get their next meal. That means the wolves will most likely attack and kill big, fat, slow, stupid cattle rather than chase down a deer.
It may come as a surprise to some of the greens who actually voted to repopulate their state with wolves, but the reason the gray wolves disappeared from the state is that ranchers didn’t like seeing their livelihoods stolen from them. The cattlemen hunted down the grey wolves until those that were left were smart enough to leave.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/what-could-go-wrong-biden-fish-wildlife-service/
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR these stupid people have been reintroducing predators that have been gone from areas for a long time now, and it causing lots of problems. Up in North Florida that started introducing wolves, and coyotes (the four legged kind) back into state management areas, and not their overrun with friggen varmints eating people cattle, and pets.
And remember what they did in the Netherlands, I think that were, or in that area, is they made it a serious crime to kill the wolves.
If I didn't know better I say this is a plan to get rid of beef industry.
To late, They have been in the foothills of Denver since 2004. Confirmed road kill on I-70.
Imo having dealt with lots of mountain lions vs angora goats / cattle etc in Texas — cattle are fairly well equipped to deal with gray wolves because mule deer and other prey will be easier— that said calves are usually born here in February/March and though momma cows and herd are very protective many ranchers here use Pyrenees and other guardians ( as our forefathers did /do in Europe) to guard the livestock against wolves ( in Texas we use burros and large guard dogs against coyotes el al
The gray wolf take down buffalo and elk in Yellowstone. Cows won't be a problem at all.
Any where the government releases them should just use the three S's to make sure the situation doesn't get out of hand. In my personal opinion we are seeing these things because they are hell bent on destroying the food supply. It is the same with all the restrictions on animal antibiotics. Add raptors to the migratory bird treaty kill off a lot of the free range chickens you used to see on farms all the time. Same with many of the game bird farms.
Pity about that parvo outbreak.
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I've seen a wolf in Colorado already. He was alone so I'm not entirely certain if he was the alpha since they're the only ones who wander away from the pack normally or if he was someone's pet that escaped or was released. Scared the shit out of me when I realized I was being stalked and caught him observing me.
They also say there is no more grizzlies in CO too but I saw one of them too or the biggest Brown Bear ever. I grew up in the Rockies and spent a lot of time in some of the most remote parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. All the wolves I've seen (legitimate packs) in Montana aren't even indigenous, they introduced Siberian wolves. I have a lot of family in MT and the saying is "shoot, shovel and shut up". Lots of trouble if you grease one and get caught.
I've seen the devastation and understand precisely why the pioneers hunted them to extinction. The neighbor has a few hundred acres across from my family, after a particularly bad winter when the thaw came I saw almost a dozen frozen deer corpses in his pastures with only their throats ripped out and not one single portion consumed. Took us a minute to figure out it was mama wolf teaching her pups how to kill efficiently even though the pack was already eating well.
Fuck wolves, they're nature's pitbulls, I'll never understand why anyone would voluntarily have either around.
Brown bear and grizzly bear are the same thing FYI
No, they're a subspecies. Kodiak bears are also a brown bear...
Edit again: "Brown and grizzly bears are classified as the same species even though there are notable differences between them" Alaska Fish And Game
I'm all sorts of lost now but you're correct and I definitely believe I saw a Grizzly then after researching Brown Bears known to live in the Rockies... I really thought there was a different subspecies of Brown Bears besides Grizzly in Colorado.
There looking to do grizzlies in WA
Seattle first then...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Colorado_Proposition_114
This was put into motion long before Biden.
Threr's that "wants" again.