Showing posts with label grey wolf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grey wolf. Show all posts
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Monday, December 16, 2013
Stop the Wolf Slaughter!
Please add your name to speak out for the protection of wolves that keep the ecosystem healthy....deadline Dec. 17th.
The public comment period on the fed's plan to strip Endangered Species Act protection for wolves ends tomorrow!
Take action today using the form below to tell them to keep America's wolves protected.
Take action today using the form below to tell them to keep America's wolves protected.
Stop the Plan to Slaughter Wolves
action.biologicaldiversity.org
Because of the government shutdown, the comment period on the proposal to strip Endangered Species Act protection from America's wolves has been extended to Dec. 17. Your voice is needed now more than ever -- please take action below and share this action with your social networks.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Killing for the sake of KILLING
Predators ensure the health of the ecosystem by culling the weakest, among other things.
There is no scientific basis for hunting wolves, quite the contrary.
This is KILLING FOR THE SAKE OF KILLING.
Bill Addeo swears he didn’t park an SUV with a dead wolf strapped to the roof on the Town Square just for the attention.
Addeo sat on a bench next to his Ford Excursion across the street from the Cowboy bar Thursday afternoon, eager to answer questions posed by folks passing by.
“It’s a neck shot,” Addeo said. “The bottom of the neck is blown apart and there’s blood everywhere, so I didn’t want to put him in the back.”
The Hoback Junction resident killed the wolf, a black 85-pound female, that morning while elk hunting near Bondurant.
Addeo said he toted the still-warm canine to Jackson to register it at the Wyoming Game and Fish office on North Cache Street. He parked it on the Town Square, he said, while his wife was shopping.
At the time Addeo shot the wolf, she and four packmates were sitting around “satiated” after having eaten an antelope, he said.
“We saw them from about one mile away,” Addeo said. “Then we crawled to 375 yards.”
His guide, Sammy L. Coutts, had forgotten shooting sticks to rest a rifle on for a shot, so the duo needed to improvise, Addeo said.
“He kneeled down and I put it right on his shoulder,” Addeo said. “It blew the hat right off his head.”
Coutts called the Jackson Hole News&Guide on Thursday afternoon to alert the newspaper to his client’s position on the Square.
The day before, Coutts had a shot at the wolves, Addeo said, but the hunting guide’s rifle didn’t prove steady enough.
“Yesterday, Sam saw the big one at about 250 yards,” Addeo said. “He gets on the hood of his truck and misses twice.”
Coutts stewed all night.
Back on the Square, almost everybody passing by stopped for a look. Most snapped photos.
Despite the interest, nobody gave Addeo flak for putting his wolf on display.
“There hasn’t been one person that’s said anything negative,” he said. “Everybody’s happy.”
Because Addeo was hunting in Wyoming’s wolf predator zone, where there are virtually no rules, a license was not necessary. The free-fire zone encompasses about 85 percent of the state. The southern edge of the zone starts in Wilson, just south of Highway 22, for about half the year.
Addeo could have shot all five wolves if he had the opportunity. The other four packmates, however, scampered off.
“After the shot went off,” Addeo said, “we ran the draw and never saw them again.”
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/print.php?art_id=10399&pid=news
There is no scientific basis for hunting wolves, quite the contrary.
This is KILLING FOR THE SAKE OF KILLING.
Hunter parks with wolf on the roof at
Square
By Mike Koshmrl, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Date: October 18, 2013
Bill Addeo swears he didn’t park an SUV with a dead wolf strapped to the roof on the Town Square just for the attention.
Addeo sat on a bench next to his Ford Excursion across the street from the Cowboy bar Thursday afternoon, eager to answer questions posed by folks passing by.
“It’s a neck shot,” Addeo said. “The bottom of the neck is blown apart and there’s blood everywhere, so I didn’t want to put him in the back.”
The Hoback Junction resident killed the wolf, a black 85-pound female, that morning while elk hunting near Bondurant.
Addeo said he toted the still-warm canine to Jackson to register it at the Wyoming Game and Fish office on North Cache Street. He parked it on the Town Square, he said, while his wife was shopping.
At the time Addeo shot the wolf, she and four packmates were sitting around “satiated” after having eaten an antelope, he said.
“We saw them from about one mile away,” Addeo said. “Then we crawled to 375 yards.”
His guide, Sammy L. Coutts, had forgotten shooting sticks to rest a rifle on for a shot, so the duo needed to improvise, Addeo said.
“He kneeled down and I put it right on his shoulder,” Addeo said. “It blew the hat right off his head.”
Coutts called the Jackson Hole News&Guide on Thursday afternoon to alert the newspaper to his client’s position on the Square.
The day before, Coutts had a shot at the wolves, Addeo said, but the hunting guide’s rifle didn’t prove steady enough.
“Yesterday, Sam saw the big one at about 250 yards,” Addeo said. “He gets on the hood of his truck and misses twice.”
Coutts stewed all night.
Back on the Square, almost everybody passing by stopped for a look. Most snapped photos.
Despite the interest, nobody gave Addeo flak for putting his wolf on display.
“There hasn’t been one person that’s said anything negative,” he said. “Everybody’s happy.”
Because Addeo was hunting in Wyoming’s wolf predator zone, where there are virtually no rules, a license was not necessary. The free-fire zone encompasses about 85 percent of the state. The southern edge of the zone starts in Wilson, just south of Highway 22, for about half the year.
Addeo could have shot all five wolves if he had the opportunity. The other four packmates, however, scampered off.
“After the shot went off,” Addeo said, “we ran the draw and never saw them again.”
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/print.php?art_id=10399&pid=news
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
The Gray Wolf
We have more important issues to address like GLOBAL WARMING.
Removing federal protection for wolves is NOT based on science and is merely KILLING FOR THE SAKE OF KILLING.
Wolves keep the ecosystem healthy!
Please add your name and speak for wolves.
Removing federal protection for wolves is NOT based on science and is merely KILLING FOR THE SAKE OF KILLING.
Wolves keep the ecosystem healthy!
Please add your name and speak for wolves.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Kill It Because It Moves?
A grey wolf was spotted in Kentucky last March. This was the first grey wolf seen in the state in 150 years... so they shot it.
It’s a wildlife mystery.The first documented free-ranging wolf in Kentucky’s modern history was shot and killed by an unsuspecting hunter, state wildlife officials have announced.
No charges are expected to be brought because there’s no reason for any hunter to expect a wolf to be in the state, since they haven’t been here for more than a century, according to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
The shooting occurred in March — and state officials said they were at first skeptical, Mark Marriccini told me this morning. When state officials first heard about it, they thinking it might have been someone’s German shepherd, he said. But they crossed all their t’s and dotted all their i’s in an effort to confirm the animal’s identity, sending DNA samples out for confirmation.
DNA analysis performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center in Colorado determined the 73-pound animal was a federally endangered gray wolf with a genetic makeup resembling wolves native to the Great Lakes Region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Oregon confirmed the finding.
How the wolf found its way to a Munfordville hay ridge at daybreak in March remains a mystery, the agency reports. Wolves have been gone from the state since the mid-1800s.
Wolves have been in the rebound in the northern Rocky Mountains and in the Great Lakes region — and they sometimes are known to roam great distances. But Marriccini said this one showed some signs of possibly having lived part of its life in captivity.
It had a large amount of plaque on its teeth — a characteristic common of wolves that have been in captivity. A largely carnivorous diet requiring the crushing of bone as they eat produces much less plaque on the teeth of wild wolves, officials said.
“We just don’t know,” Marriccini said.
The wolf was taken by a hunter near Munfordville in Hart County on March 16, officials said. A hunting forum features some photos purportedly of the animal. Caution: they are a bit graphic.
State officials identified the hunter as Hart County resident James Troyer, and said Troyer shot the animal from 100 yards away while predator hunting on his family’s farm. Troyer, 31, said he had taken a coyote off the property just two weeks earlier, according to state officials. But when he approached the downed animal he noticed it was much larger.
“I was like – wow – that thing was big!” he recalled. “It looked like a wolf, but who is going to believe I shot a wolf?”
Wolves resemble coyotes, except they are much larger. From a distance, the size difference is difficult to determine, officials said.
Troyer convinced Kevin Raymond, a wildlife biologist for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, to look at the animal. Once Raymond saw the animal was twice the size of a coyote, he contacted furbearer biologist Laura Patton, who submitted samples to federal officials for DNA testing.
Because state and federal laws prohibit the possession, importation into Kentucky or hunting of gray wolves, federal officials took possession of the pelt.
Gray wolves have been on the federal endangered species list, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service this year declared them recovered, and proposed taking them off the list.
http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2013/08/15/yes-it-was-a-wolf-in-kentucky/
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