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So now that the wolf population in Minnesota has recovered sufficiently to warrant them losing federal protection, it's time to start shooting them again, right?

I find this genuinely baffling. If the wolf population/distribution has been stable for the past ten years (controlling itself nicely, it seems), why do we need a wolf season? Or are we playing a new game in which we push a species to the point of needing federal protection, let it recover, and then drive it to the brink again, repeat ad nauseum? SOUNDS FUN.

/sarcasm


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Date: 2012-01-06 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artekka.livejournal.com
"The wolf population has been fully recovered in Minnesota for many years," said Dan Stark, the DNR's large carnivore specialist. "Our hunting and trapping season approach will be designed to keep it that way. No one wants to see this species needing federal protection again."

...?

how does that even make sense? "we don't want to reduce the population. so to keep from reducing the population, we're gonna let people kill 'em." O_o

Date: 2012-01-07 12:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barsukthom.livejournal.com
because the current generation of conservative politicians are a bunch of wholly-owned effwads, and the current generation of liberal politicians are inept effwads. GRRRrrrRRRRrrrr

Date: 2012-01-07 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barsukthom.livejournal.com
What is most egregiously annoying? is that the cash bounties for replacing wolf-killed cattle have gone largely unclaimed.
Yeah.
They're NOT attacking your goddamned sacred cows!BUT WE WANNA KILL SOMEFIN!

Date: 2012-01-07 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barsukthom.livejournal.com
Yah.
Grumble.
BUT WE WANNA LET OUR COWS WANDER ON FEDERAL LAND THAT WE DON'T HAFTA PAY FOR! FENCES BAD!

Date: 2012-01-07 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com
Livestock protection.

So, basically - yes, to answer you.

Date: 2012-01-07 04:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com
I'm just citing the ostensible reason. But similar things happen with deer - they're hunted or left alone depending on density. Something about balancing nature out, I think.

Date: 2012-01-11 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com
Don't you understand??? The only reason why they wanted to raise the level of the wolf population was so they could have an excuse to start shooting them again!!!

It's the Homo Sapiens way... Destroy, get a guilt trip, destroy, and so on. Ad nauseam...

Don't worry - the badgers'll be getting it over here soon!

Date: 2012-01-11 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com
I had a debate with an 'unting/shooting/fishing type once: when he tried telling me how rewarding it was to outwit an animal in its natural habitat, I pointed out that it shouldn't be that difficult. I mean, we're the planet's ultimate superpredator: how hard can it be to outthink something with a brain the size of a walnut or an apple? And we've got the benefit of technology on our side.

Arm the wolves etc. with Ouzi nine millimetres, then let's see how things pan out....

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