From Protecting Yellowstone Wolves Kudos to proactive rancher Keli Hendricks, who is also a predator friendly cattle rancher from Petaluma, California who serves on the Advisory board of Project Coyote. While there are no wolves left in California, Mrs. Hendricks understands the importance of coexisting with wildlife and responsible predator-friendly ranching: Why are Wildlife Services, State Fish and Game department and hunters allowed a functional open season on wolves? They are ready and willing to kill any wolf that is considered a problem. The truth is, the wolf really isn’t the problem- rather it’s lack of coordinated management where wolves cross from a protected area to a kill zone: lack of effective management that provides good healthy habitat with sufficient game populations that together deter wolves from killing livestock and; lack of cost-effective management that should promote and implement non-lethal control measures. In the last two centuries, we have shot, gassed, poisoned, trapped, and snared: bison, prairie dogs, badgers, grizzly bears, coyotes, wolves, foxes, bobcats and more, all because they pose some sort of threat to livestock. Meanwhile, the American public has started to see that these animals we are killing actually play a valuable role in our ecosystem, and maybe the slash- and- burn way we are ‘controlling’ wildlife isn’t sustainable. We overharvest the natural prey for predators like wolves; we take away their habitat and replace it with domestic livestock with little protection. We create the very problem that wolves are being killed for. See full article below. bit.ly/H9uEl0
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:29:47 +0000
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