Mexican Gray Wolf Pup
May 14, 2013
Just to let everyone know I’ll be off and on the blog the next few weeks and will be posting very little. I still encourage everyone to stop by and continue to read. I’ll be checking in as often as I can. So sorry for the the inconvenience.
For the wolves, For the wild ones,
Nabeki
Here's a glimpse at things from the point of view of the dark side--an article in the "Daily Caller" in the "Guns and Gear" section from the Safari Club International (the self-proclaimed keepers of "common sense") touting pro-hunting bills (which need to be stopped)...
Essential legislation to protect hunting introduced in U.S. Congress
Washington, D.C. – Safari Club International (SCI) supports the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act introduced by Congressman Dan Benishek (MI) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK).
Update: May 5, 2013
While we’re mourning the death of OR-5, remember Oregon’s Walla Walla Pack yearling wolf OR-16, was also slaughtered in Idaho’s wolf hunt in January of this year. That makes three Oregon collared wolves wiped out in Idaho. Anyone think collaring wolves is a good thing? Interesting how collared wolves are targeted so easily. As Bob Dylan famously wrote, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”!
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January 25, 2013
Here’s the convo from an anti-wolf Facebook page laughing about OR-16′s death. This is what these freaks find funny, the death of a yearling wolf.
Too bad it didn’t get shot. So much for the whole family thing the wolf humpers claim.
Larry O.
Hopefully he will stay in Idaho long enough to get angel wings. With that black hide he will make a great rug.
Bill K
If us pushing that wolf back over to be shot in idaho works.. we willc ontinue to push many more back for the shooters. hell we will even pay for the ammo. ha ha ha ha.
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January 24, 2013
I might as well be a funeral director, that’s all I seem to be doing is reporting on dead wolves.
OR-16, a beautiful black yearling Oregon wolf, who made the terrible mistake of crossing the Snake River into the killing fields of Idaho, was slaughtered for nothing last Saturday in the deadly Idaho wolf hunt. There was talk he and other collared Oregon wolves were being targeted.
I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of this insanity. I’m not planning on sitting on my hands this year and watching the carnage continue. Enough is enough. The wolf killers are rubbing our faces in it but their hubris will be their downfall because wolf advocates are more upset than I’ve ever seen them.
The anti wolf crowd thinks they hold all the cards but they forget they are the minority and we are the majority. It’s just a matter of waking up the sleeping masses. The killing of collared wolves, who many people identify with, is mobilizing the troops. The killing of Yellowstone’s Lamar Canyon alpha female O6 and her beta male 754 and many other collared wolves, including OR-9, brother to famous wolf OR-7 and now OR-16, has people hopping mad. Not because these wolves are more important than the almost 1000 wolves who’ve been slaughtered since August 30, 2012 but because they are well-known, have numbers and have been written about. People identify with them and their deaths are sparking outrage. The pro-wolf movement is ready to stand and fight.
Rest in Peace OR-16, beautiful boy. You were just a yearling, never having a chance to live your life. But you will not be forgotten. This is a rallying cry to all who love wolves. The time for lamenting is over. It’s time to take action and work to see wolves relisted. For all who are frustrated with the ineffective actions of the past, several other wolf advocates and myself are plotting a new path, one we hope will change the dynamic of this fight.
For the wolves, For OR-16,
Nabeki
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http://www.oregonwild.org/about/press-room/press-releases/oregon-wolf-gunned-down-in-idaho
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By Richard Cockle, The Oregonian
January 24, 2013 at 6:46 PM, updated January 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM
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Photo: Courtesy ODFW
Posted in: Wolf Wars, Oregon Wolves,
Tags: Bloody Idaho wolf hunt, OR !6, Walla Walla pack , Oregon wolves, wolf slaughter, relist wolves, Endangered Species act. wolves need protection, killing out of control, states cannot manage wolves, conflict of interest, trophy hunting sadistic
Iconic Oregon wolf, OR-7, made the right decision when he left his natal pack, the Imnaha’s, and headed west, away from Idaho but his two siblings, OR-9 and OR-5 weren’t so lucky. His brother OR-9 was killed by an Idaho hunter with an expired wolf tag, in other words the wolf was poached. It’s always such a big deal when elk are killed out of season or with expired tags but wolves are treated as if their lives are worth nothing.
And so the sad story of OR-7′s family continues with the death of his sister OR-5, pictured above. She originally dispersed to the Blue Mountains in Washington state, I wish she’d stayed there.
“A yearling female wolf from Oregon’s Imnaha Pack trotted into Washington’s Blue Mountains last month.
According to ODFW’s January wolf management update, OR-5, an animal that hadn’t been heard from since late November, “was discovered in the north Blue Mountains of Washington by WDFW personnel on 1/20/11.”
Five days later, “A subsequent flight by ODFW visually confirmed the young female wolf had dispersed and is now in Washington. This is the first evidence of dispersal from this pack,” says ODFW”…..northwest sportsmen
Unfortunately she left the Blue Mountains and ended up in Idaho during wolf trapping season. Another wolf life snuffed out in the cruelest of ways, caught in a leg hold trap. It’s heart breaking she had to suffer and die for nothing. Trapping is torture, banned in 89 countries but in the backward Northern Rockies, it claims the lives of innocent animals, like this little wolf.
“Crossing the border into Idaho was a death sentence for this wolf,” said Amaroq Weiss, the west coast wolf organizer for the Center for Biological Diversity. “What a heartbreaking paradox — one wolf from this pack, OR-7, is world-renowned and beloved, while his sister OR-5 died a lonely, terribly painful death in a steel-jawed leghold trap.”….
The Idaho perpetual wolf hunt has now claimed the lives of two of OR-7′s siblings, who innocently don’t understand boundaries and crossed into that wolf killing state where their lives were taken.
As the USFWS prepares to delist wolves across the lower 48, we have to fight back against the tyranny being perpetrated against them.
OR-5 and OR-9 didn’t deserve what happened to them and neither did the thousands of wolves who’ve lost their lives since the Obama Administration declared war against them.
Speak Out!
BOYCOTT IDAHO!!
The sister of California’s famous wandering wolf was killed by trappers in Idaho.
The three-year-old gray wolf, known as OR-5, left the Imnaha pack in Oregon just like her brother, OR-7, who roamed more than 2,000 miles through California before crossing back into Oregon on March 13. The sister went the other way, crossing into Idaho, where she got caught in a foothold trap March 30 on the next-to-last day of the Idaho trapping season.
This wolf skin was recovered by the Peninsula Humane Society
“Crossing the border into Idaho was a death sentence for this wolf,” said Amaroq Weiss, the west coast wolf organizer for the Center for Biological Diversity. “What a heartbreaking paradox — one wolf from this pack, OR-7, is world-renowned and beloved, while his sister OR-5 died a lonely, terribly painful death in a steel-jawed leghold trap.”
Federal Endangered Species Act protections were rescinded for wolves in the northern Rockies in 2011, prompting what Weiss characterized as a hunting frenzy. More than 800 wolves have been killed in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming since then, reducing the wolf population 7 percent.
The brother of the California wolf, OR-9, was killed last year by an Idaho hunter, one of several radio-collared wolves that, instead of providing valuable research, became hunting trophies.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to remove protections for gray wolves over the rest of the United States, including Oregon and California, according to a draft rule obtained by the Chronicle last week.
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/04/30/sister-of-famous-california-wolf-trapped-killed
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http://www.lifewithwolves.org/home/?p=8291
August 8, 2011
http://www.lifewithwolves.org/home/?p=8291
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Photo: Courtesy ODWF
Posted in: Wolf Wars, Oregon Wolves
Tags: OR-9, OR-5, OR-9, Imnaha Pack, Oregon wolves, Idaho wolf killing fields, leg-hold trap torture
There’s been a lot of talk about tolerance these days, but sometimes it seems only the Left side really takes the concept of peaceful acceptance to heart. Fair-minded folk are encouraged to politely tolerate each other’s differences in order to get along. But lately the anti-wolf faction has hijacked the word to justify the killing of wolves.
For example, ten Washington state legislators recently urged their Fish and Wildlife Commission to enact a policy of allowing the unpermitted killing of wolves, “to maintain social tolerance for gray wolves in northeast Washington.” And a wolf-hunter/wildlife snuff film producer told NPR News, “Having these hunting seasons has provided a level of tolerance again.” Sorry, but I guess I just don’t see how killing wolves promotes tolerance for them; sounds more like enmity than tolerance.
UPDATE: May 1, 2013
Here are other numbers to call that may be more receptive, a big thanks to Louise K. for supplying them. And still continue to call Sally Jewell and the Interior, they need to hear from us.
It may seem the Interior and USFWS are turning a deaf ear to your calls and emails but believe me they’re listening. It’s our job to call and make noise, remember “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”, don’t be discouraged. Email, call and snail mail them. We cannot allow this to stand. Wolves need the protection of the ESA as Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan have firmly shown us. What did these states do as soon as wolves lost their protections? ORGANIZED WOLF HUNTS!! Their actions speak for themselves and are the best examples of why wolves MUST be protected from brutal state fish and game agency “management”!.
Keep on keeping on! We can win this!
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April 29, 2013
The USFWS is moving ahead with its wolf persecution plan. The agency has drafted a plan that endorses the delisting of wolves across the lower 48, basically saying they could care less wolves are being tortured, slaughtered and treated like vermin. It implies they don’t care about the science. It implies they don’t care wolves in North America have lost almost half their genetic diversity since the late 1800′s. It implies they aren’t concerned wolves are being isolated from one another due to increased hunting pressure, resulting in further loss of genetic connectivity. It implies they don’t care Yellowstone wolves now live on a virtual island, facing death if they set foot outside the park, as the iconic alpha female of the Lamar Canyon pack, 832f, sadly learned.
President Obama and his now retired side kick, Salazar are tone-deaf concerning wolves. They pulled the plug on wolf recovery in 2009 by removing Endangered Species protections for the imperiled animals, first in the Northern Rockies and now the Great Lakes. While the Democratic party once again looks the other way, wolf enemies are pushing hard for across the board delisting. This is ugly politics, nothing more. Ranchers, hunters and the politicians who serve them, are chomping at the bit to drive a final stake into the heart of wolves. Once a success story, in just four short years the Obama administration has turned wolf recovery into a nightmare. Not only are wolves being slaughtered in the Northern Rockies but wolves in the Great Lakes are getting the same treatment. For the first time Minnesota and Wisconsin held wolf hunts in 2012, mere months after wolves lost their ESA protections. Wisconsin trophy hunters, want to use dogs to track and trail wolves to their deaths. Michigan, the only state in the Great Lakes that didn’t hold a wolf hunt last year, recently classified wolves as game animals, opening the door to wolf hunts. Michigan residents went to work and collected over 250,00 signatures to allow a 2014 ballot initiative that would give Michigan voters a voice on whether or not they want a wolf hunt but that tremendous grass-roots effort is being thwarted.
“Senate Bill 288, approved this week in that chamber and now headed to House, would allow the Natural Resources Commission to designate an animal — such as the wolf — as a game species and authorize a hunt regardless of what voters might decide in 2014″…….joosting@mlive.com
This is not success, this smells of dirty pool, backroom deals and backdoor politics.
I remember the Spring of 2009 very clearly. A new President after eight years of George Bush, what a relief. Finally we’d have someone in the White House who cared about wildlife. But the Obama administration did the unthinkable and appointed a rancher to oversee the nations treasured wild places and just like that wolves were stripped of their endangered species protections. When the news broke of the wolf delisting, I was stunned. Wolves had been facing the wrath of Wildlife Services for almost a decade. Entire packs in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming were routinely gunned down for miniscule livestock depredations. We had no way of knowing it would get much, much worse for wolves in the next four years.
Before we knew it Montana and Idaho were planning wolf hunts to commence in the fall. In mere months wolves went from endangered to hunted.
The killing has only escalated way beyond anything we could have imagined. Not only are wolves facing hunts that grow more gruesome every year but the USFWS wants to finish wolves off by effectively removing their protections across the lower 48. The refrain that wolf recovery is a “success story” is absolute BS. A SUCCESS STORY? Idaho is holding year round wolf hunts, trapping and snaring wolves by the hundreds. Montana initiated wolf trapping for the first time and eliminated quotas. It’s a success story if you think success is defined by Wyoming’s “predator zone”, which encompasses over 80 % of the state, where wolves can be shot on sight. Some success story. Scum trophy hunters were luring Yellowstone wolves out of the park with puppy distress calls. That’s a success story? Just head over to Facebook and read a few of the sick anti-wolf sites, it will turn your stomach. There’s a certain wolf hating page where members admit they get off on torturing wolves.
“The members of this Facebook page come right out and publicly admit (brag is more like it) to ‘getting wood’ when seeing wolves trapped, tortured and killed, whether in images or in real life. They feel ‘orgasmic’ hunting, trapping, killing, butchering, and even eating their victims.
It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to know what else they are doing when torturing wolves to death”…..Examiner.com
What’s happening to wolves mimics the extermination of the 1900′s. Not only were wolves trapped, shot, arrowed and poisoned with strychnine but they were also set on fire, had they lower jaws removed, then let loose to suffer and die. The atrocities being perpetrated against wolves in 2013 are every bit as evil and sick. And who put the rubber stamp on this slaughter? Who weakened the ESA? The Democratic controlled Senate, who stuffed a wolf delisting rider into a must pass budget bill and stripped wolves in the Northern Rockies of their protections, WITHOUT JUDICIAL REVIEW! There was no science involved in that. It was a ploy to get Jon Tester re-elected, by playing to the wolf hating crowd in Montana and every single Democrat Senator voted for it except three and Obama signed the bill into law. How shameful is that? What’s even more pitiful is how clueless the MSM is. Jon Stewart was praising Jon Tester for speaking out about another rider, recently slipped into an appropriations bill, that would give biotech companies like Monsanto immunity from the courts. Maybe Jon Stewart missed the memo that it was Jon Tester who inserted the wolf delisting rider into the 2011 budget bill, to help get himself re-elected. Wake up Jon S!!
Now is the time to stand up and say no to wolf persecution. Sally Jewell is the boss at Interior now and it’s our job to convince her to turn away from this “plan”. Wolves inhabit less than 5% of their former habitat. If the USFWS has their way hostile state governments will draft “wolf management” plans effectively keeping wolves from dispersing outside the “kill zones” of the wolf states, stopping wolf recovery in its tracks.
Please contact the Interior Secretary and let her know Americans love wolves and want them protected. We can’t continue to allow a handful of wolf hating zealots to drive policy.
Please speak out for wolves, we are their voice!
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
202-208-3100
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240
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Posted: Friday, April 26, 2013 1:20 pm
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Top Photo: Courtesy old-district87-org
Middle Photo: Courtesy Earth Island Journal
Posted in: Wolf Wars
Tags: wolf persecution, draft to delist wolves, USFWS betrays wolves, politics – politics – politics, Sally Jewel, Department of the Interior
On April 8, the body of a 15-year-old Rottweiler named "Aussia," was discovered in a pond in Erie County, Pa., by officials with the Erie Boat Commission.
The officials knew who to contact about the body they had found because one dog owner in the area had been conducting a desperate search for her dog for months.
Laura Victoria was Aussia's guardian, and she had been searching the area in and around Corry, Pa., since Aussia's disappearance back on January 21.
It gives me comfort to view wolves in their natural habitat, unmolested by their greatest enemy, humans.
The Gyrfalcons, snowies, foxes, hares and all the wildlife on Ellesmere, are beautiful as well.
Interestingly the wolves got by on small prey, including lemmings, for a while, since they didn’t have a litter of new pups to feed that year!
I seem to remember Arctic wolves eating lemmings in Farley Mowat’s iconic book, Never Cry Wolf!
Alert to the anti-wolf crowd…notice the raptors and foxes are hunting and eating prey, just like the wolves, as all predators do. Amazing how nature works!
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Video: Courtesy Black7Cloud YouTube
Photo: wolf wallpaper brothersoftdotcom
Posted in: gray wolf, biodiversity
Tags: arctic wolves, Gyrfalcon , Ellesmere Island, Canada, arctic foxes, snowy owls
Once again Dave, you hit the ball out of the park with another powerful video. Wolves are the closest relatives of our beloved dogs, separated by just .2% of their DNA, while the difference between wolves and coyotes is 4% . When will the haters open their eyes and see how wolf-like dogs really are? The amazing qualities canis lupus familiaris possesses evolved from their closest ancestor, the wolf: loyalty, playfulness, intelligence, superior sense of smell, endurance and most of all, love of family.
Our world would be a lonely place without our canine companions. If there were no wolves there would be no dogs. Take off your blinders trophy hunters and stop pretending you’re not killing the wild brothers of your canine friends!
When the canine first became domesticated, dogs were loved and wolves were hated, any links were unrelated by the hordes.
Legends, fairy tales, passed down by generations, spread the lies and accusations, scaring men in every nation of the world.
Science ridiculed with lies, It’s nature, cover up your eyes
We love you, We miss you, We watch over you, We kill you
Less than human how can you look in a mirror, does the truth ever figure, with your finger on the trigger of your gun,
Less than human, where the hating has no boundaries, and the traps spew out of foundries, utilized by evil armies of so-called men
Where politicians compromise, it’s nature, cover up your eyes
We love you, We miss you, We watch over you, We kill you
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by Helen Briggs BBC News Science Reporter
A boggle-eyed pooch tucked into a Balenciaga handbag; an elite greyhound tearing around the track in a flash of fur and claws; a sniffer dog on the trail of illicit drugs.
Given that dogs come in every shape, size and colour, it is strange to think they are all wolves under the skin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4965516.stm
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Video: Courtesy of Ratty and the Watchers YouTube
Photo: Chris Martin-Bahr Science Photo Library
Posted in: Wolf Wars
Tags: ‘Less Than Human’, Ratty and the Watchers, dogs descended from wolves, wolves wild dogs, canis lupus familiaris, canus lupis
This blog is dedicated to the memory of Wolf 253, the beloved Yellowstone Druid wolf named Limpy, who was shot and killed in March 08, on the very day ESA protections were lifted for the gray wolf, by the then Bush Administration.
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