August 1, 2014
This was first posted in 2010. Wildlife Services continued to kill wolves even though 500 wolves died in the Northern Rockies in 2009, due to the first wolf hunts held in Montana and Idaho after the Obama admin. stripped them of their ESA protections. Along with poaching and Wildlife Services, wolves continued to die in 2010 after the hunts were over. This is just a fraction of the damage Montana and Idaho have inflicted on wolves over the last five years. Read it and weep, then get active. There’s a time to write about tragedy and a time to do something about it. How many more years will I have to report about dead wolves? It’s burning a hole in my soul.
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May 5, 2010
Wolf killing season continues even though the “legal hunts” are over.
Wildlife Services and Montana FWP are gunning for four wolf packs. The Trapper Peak Pack, Miner Lakes Pack, Bender Pack and any remaining wolves from the Battlefield Pack.
Do any of these packs have pups? It’s pup season and babies are just weeks old, totally dependent on their mothers to survive. Is this how Montana FWP intends to further reduce the wolf population by wiping out wolf pups when they kill their parents? The situation is disgusting to say the least. What happens to these pups when their parents are killed. They are BABIES! Do they leave them for dead, kill them along with the other members of the pack? When is this going to end?
The Montana Wildlife Services wolf extermination squad continue to go after wolves for livestock depredation even though wolf predation is a tiny figure in overall cattle deaths. Let’s ask ranchers how many cows they lose to disease, weather, theft and reproductive issues? They don’t want to talk about that because they don’t get reimbursed for cows killed by lighting.
People are outraged by the continued wolf killing. And the ranchers just sit back and let the feds take care of “the problem” for them. Why do Montanans owe the ranchers anything? It’s their cattle. Hire range riders, use electrified fladry, herders, guard dogs, what ever you have to do but why are federal tax dollars being used to kill wolves for agribusiness? It’s a subsidy for ranching pure and simple.
Yes, Montana Wildlife Services has been very busy and it’s only four months into the 2010. Read it and weep.
Stats From Montana FWP Weekly Wolf Reports:
Candy Mountain Pack 4/1 Authorized to kill two wolves (breeding pair end of 2009)
Dry Forks Pack 4/6 Removing wolves and collaring wolves, 4/7 one wolf killed, possibly two. (breeding pair end of 2009)
Ninemile Pack 3/23 one wolf shot from helicopter (breeding pair end of 2009)
Silcox Pack 3/ 5 one pup killed (breeding pair end of 2009)
Superior Pack 4/20 two wolves killed, 4/21 alpha male killed which removed the entire pack ( six wolves killed in total) (was breeding pair end of 2009)
Cedar Creek Pack 4/22 WS services given permission to kill five wolves from this pack, WS has killed three of those wolves
Trapper Peak Pack: alpha male and another wolf killed 2009, 4/13 (aprox date) yearling wolf shot by rancher, 4/23 WS authorized to kill entire pack
3/8 one wolf killed
3/23 three wolves killed
4/9 Gunning for entire wolf pack near Wisdom
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From Ralph Maughin’s Website: From April 22, 2010
March Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report released
The Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report has been released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. So far the report says there have been 28 wolves killed for 14 livestock animals taken. This doesn’t make sense when you consider that last month’s depredation numbers were the same as this month’s yet they report that 8 calves were taken and 10 wolves killed this month. Something didn’t get updated properly.
It also notes that “Additional capture efforts are planned through April.” This is noteworthy since wolves den in April. Does this mean that they have been capturing pregnant females just before denning? Usually ground trapping doesn’t occur when there is a chance of freezing temperatures due to the possibility of injury to the wolves’ feet so presumably capturing refers to aerial darting of wolves.
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This was not the purpose of the reintroduction.
Nobody envisioned wolves would be continually killed by the state for agribusiness. Why would you reintroduce wolves in the West only to send them down the road to extinction, once again? This is slaughter pure and simple and it’s WRONG.
And again, what about the newly born pups? They are doomed along with their parents!
Wildlife officials target 3 wolf packs for attacks on stock in Big Hole Valley
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_2fb6262e-4f54-11df-85a6-001cc4c03286.html
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State decides to kill Trapper Peak wolf pack
Ravalli Republic | Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 12:00 am
http://ravallirepublic.com/news/local/article_436e6a62-57df-11df-8321-001cc4c03286.html
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Bitteroot Wolf Pack To Be Eliminated
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 4:09 PM
By Mark Holyoak
http://www.kpax.com/news/bitterroot-wolf-pack-to-be-eliminated/
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Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Wolf Policies Foreshadow Extinction
The federal authorization for each state to reduce wolves to 100-150 animals puts northern Rockies wolves on a spiral toward extinction.
By Michael J. Robinson, Guest Writer, 4-21-10
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Please write to Carolyn Sime and the rest of the wolf team to express your outrage over the continued killing of wolves for agribusiness:
Carolyn Sime, Helena
Montana Statewide Wolf Coordinator
(406) 444-3242 (work)
(406) 461-0587 (cell)
Click Here To Email Her:
Click Here To Contact Montana Wolf Team:
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Write to Montana’s Office of Tourism and tell them you want Montana to stop killing wolves or you won’t spend tourist dollars in the state:
Montana Office of Tourism
Mailing Address
Montana Office of Tourism
PO Box 200533
Helena MT 59620-0501
Email
mt-webmaster@visitmt.com
Phone/FAX
Phone: 406.841.2870
Fax: 406.841.2871
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Lastly, please stop eating beef!! It’s a cruel industry and will help save wolves. Watch Earthlings and Food, Inc. to see how much ranchers care about their cows and sheep. It will make you sick!
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Boulder White Clouds Council
Exposing The Big Game
Footloose Montana
Friends of the Clearwater
Lockwood Animal Rescue Center
Louise du Toit
LUPUSLAETUS
Mercy For Animals
Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance (NIWA)
Predator Friendly®- Because Wildlife Matters
Project Coyote
Project: Wolf
The Nature Conservancy
The Ravensong Group
WildEarth Guardians
Wisconsin Wildlife Ethic-Vote Our Wildlife
Wolf And Wildlife Studies: Jay Mallonee (Independent Wolf Biologist)
Wolf Song of Alaska
Wolves in english ! Les loups en anglais !
WWP's Gray Wolf Page
Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative
Howling For Justice 
It is a sad commentary on the USDA Wildlife Services and the wolf jihad states of MT-ID-WY-WI and their state agencies and USFWS. Some are disappointed with what these wolf hating, mismanaging states and agencies have and are doing and refer to it as happening under the “Obama Administration”. Now imagine how much worse under Romney-Ryan Administration or a McCain-Palin Adminstration
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How much worse could it get than it is? I don’t see how it could get any worse. Wolves are going to be killed to very low numbers under a Democratic administration, and the ESA is going to be watered down under a Democratic administration for other species, in continuing demoralizing steps. I don’t see how it would be any worse, at least for wildlife and wildlands. Neither party really cares about them.
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Oh, and the wild horses are going to be all ‘zeroed out’ under this Democratic administration also – it is shocking.
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The Democrats are destroying the very heart of the environmental movement – breaking down the ESA and the Wilderness Act. I have no doubt that wolves will be delisted in the lower 48 under this Democratic administration, as well as grizzly bears, and sage grouse will not be listed. These are things that even Republicans couldn’t accomplish, if not for working with this Democratic administration. I’m dismayed about how brainwashed the American public is, continuing to cling to this Democratic administration, despite all that is going on right before our very eyes.
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You hit the nail on the head ida. We all knew what the Republicans were capable of but the betrayal by the Democrats is stunning. Obama has done more damage to wolves and wildlife than George Bush could ever dream of doing.
For the wolves, For the wild ones,
Nabeki
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Reblogged this on hocuspocus13 and commented:
jinxx xoxo
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Will this evil hunting on harmless prey ever end. Sick of these so called men that kill for the thrill……. Shame on all of you these are helpless animals trying to make their way with pups. The world is so broken God help our wildlife. Where is the media coverage on all this killing.
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Actually, I wonder know if it might not have been better if a Republican were in office, because the Democrats of old would have fought harder for these Democratic values, and done their own obstructionist . Now, they are just yes people (got to be politically correct, that’s more important than anything these days!), bobble-heads standing by their man in the White House, no matter what bad or non-decision he makes.
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oops, that should read ‘I wonder now’ and ‘done their own obstructionist blocking’.
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I had no idea this is sick and evil , to treat Wolves and there beautiful pups with such evil and and destruction is wrong . I have been crying for an hour now and I just cant believe I live in a world that is full of ungodley , filthy , evil men that instead of doing good they choose to destroy and kill . God I pray that whoever is doing this will you please stop I cant bear it its just to sad how can you take the beauty God gives us and just destry it. Let them have the livestock , thats what you need to do . Leave the wolves alone you bad evil men . How dare you you should be ashamed .
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