Color me confused...

[nobleplatypus]

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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[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

[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

[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!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Livestock protection.

So, basically - yes, to answer you.

[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!