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Resolving the
wolf issue should be a No. 1
priority for your business or
organization. Right
now, shooting and hunting as an
industry, and as a recreational
pursuit, is losing in the "getting
the message across"
media battle. It's
time for you to significantly
step up your efforts to save
hunting from the wolves (a.k.a.
an out of control USFWS and
well-funded environmental
groups).
You can no longer sit on the
sidelines and wait for someone
else to lead the charge.
Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
Link to National Geographic
article:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/03/wolf-wars/chadwick-text
The National
Geographic piece does a fairly
good job. But it is still
written from a
"wildlife biologist's
perspective" ...a
wildlife biologist who is still
hell bent to assure people that
the wolf has it's place in the
settled community known as the
Northern Rockies.
And it may, but not at anywhere
near the numbers we have
today...which is a heck of a lot
more than the 1,600 to 1,700 the
FWP and USFWS like to throw
around.
Even this piece tries to
discount hunter input into all
of this wolf issue...and rest
assured there are tens of
thousands of Montana hunters who
put
a lot more boot leather on the
ground throughout the year than
these so-called wildlife
experts. Seasoned sportsmen know
what they're seeing and what
they're not seeing.
And these hunters are seeing one
heck of a lot more wolves (than
claimed by FWP) and a heck of a
lot less elk (than claimed by
FWP).
Let's face it...hunters (who
truly pay the bills for FWP) no
longer believe anything that FWP
tells them. How can they...they
know they've been lied to by
FWP about the number of
wolves...and about how low an
impact wolves have on big game
populations. (Seems that was
also more the angle of the
National
Geographic piece than depicting
the true story.)
Want to do a really good story
from the sportsman's
perspective...just go over to
Lincoln, a community right in
the middle of Montana hunting
country. Hang
around at the couple of small
restaurants there and talk to
the people coming and
going...run over to the post
office and do the same with
people coming to
pick up their mail (and be sure
to talk with postmaster Zach
Muse)...and drive out to the
ranch of Rick Dunkerley (who's
ranch borders town)...and don't
forget
to contact long time residents
of the area, like Bill Kornec.
Ask them how well the wolf is
fitting in with their community.
I'm sure you'll then come away
with a
much more objective story that
depicts more accurately how the
vast majority of folks who don't
live in a larger city in this
state feel about wolves. And
from the
perspective of those who hunt.
I'm sure your cameraman will
also come away with some footage
of deer and elk - since the
animals have moved into town to
escape the constant pressure and
depredation
from wolves.
Why is it that ALL media tends
to steer away from presenting
wolves from the sportsman's
perspective? After all, these
same sportsmen are the ones who
have paid
the billions of dollars over the
past hundred years to finance
real conservation projects. Now
it seems our wildlife agencies
want to buddy up with the enemy
of
hunting, those environmental
organizations with a goal of
eliminating hunting in this
country. You know, those
"nature groups"
who bilk the federal government
out
of hundreds of millions of
dollars annually - and have not
spent one thin dime on real
conservation.
Hey, did you notice how the
National Geographic article
failed to put a number to the
amount of game it takes to keep
the 8,000 or so wolves of the
"Lower 48"
fed?*
Or how much game these same
wolves kill just to satisfy
their blood lust...without
eating anything? And it sure
didn't touch on the spread of
hydatid disease among wild
ungulates or livestock. What was
also missing is the fact that
the wolves dumped into our
state, as well as Idaho and
Wyoming, WERE NOT
the native wolf of this
area...
and the Candaian gray wolf they
did use for the reintroduction
IS NOT ENDANGERED
(with more than 50,000
still roaming in Canada), and
being nearly twice the size of
the wolf that WAS
native here, these wolves have
twice the appetite...and twice
the ability to kill.
Do you think that was an
oversight...or just slanted
journalism?
The wolf wars are just
beginning, most guns haven't
even been uncased yet...but they
will be.
Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
"Save An Elk Herd -
Kill A Wolf!"
(Bumper
Stickers Now Available)
406 542-9751
*If there are 8,000 wolves now
in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
New Mexico, Washington, Oregon,
and now very likely
Colorado...and each of those
wolves kill an average of 25
deer/elk/moose annually for
food, that adds up to 200,000
animals lost annually.
Researchers now acknowledge
that wolves also kill just about
as much game for "sport". That
would up the total to about
400,000 deer, elk, moose and
other big game lost to wolves
annually. And where there are
wolves, those who spend the
greatest amount of time in the
out-of-doors claim there are
significantly more wolves than
being claimed by state and
federal wildlife agencies. If
there are as many as 10,000
wolves now in these ten states,
and many feel there are that
many and more, it means that to
keep them well nourished and to
satisfy their blood lust
killings is now taking upward of
500,000 game animals - EACH AND
EVERY YEAR!
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The Idaho House
of Representatives take the
first step to reduce state's
wolf population
to just 150 wolves - declaring a
State of Emergency.
Go to the following link -
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/HCR043.pdf
Montana's legislators need to do
the same thing!!!
Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
406 542-9751
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http://www.idahotrappers.com/lobowatchflyer.htm
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http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/apps/releases/view.cfm?NewsID=5304
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/wildlife/manage_issues/echinococcus.cfm
The
connection above is a link to
IDGF web site and a press
release they
sent out to Idaho's newspapers.
The second connection is to an
echinocossus info document on
their web page.
Jeff
Sayre
Lewiston, ID
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CONFUSED
Let's get this straight. The President
and his Congressional cronies
humiliate the Supreme Court Justices and
then castigate the
Supreme Court's Constitutional authority
in a public spectacle by
incorrectly accusing the Court of
allowing foreign corporations to
flood American political candidates and
campaigns with foreign
money and influence.
Isn't this the same President and the
same Congressional cronies
that just spent the last year lecturing
us that terrorists, excuse me
I meant "isolated individuals" and
"criminals", from places like
Yemen and Pakistan and other such
"foreign" locations are
entitled to all the rights, privileges,
and Constitutional protections
as American citizens? This, while these
same characters are
actively working with UN and "foreign"
anti-gun activists to draft
and ratify a UN Treaty on gun control
that will trump the 2nd
Amendment of the US Constitution and
thereby strip American
citizens of their Constitutional right
to bear any and all arms
except for those allowed by governments
like now rule in Chicago,
Washington, and Zimbabwe.
So
we are to be in mortal fear of
"foreign" corporations while
celebrating the fact that "foreign"
criminals (AKA "terrorists"),
just like illegal aliens, are to be
accorded every benefit of
American citizenry and then to be
simultaneously resigned to
the activities of these same characters
to strip American citizens
of their Constitutional right to keep
and bear arms?
As
my Chicago grandmother observed of
another Chicago
politician long ago, "you can watch a
thief, but you can't a liar."
Jim
Beers
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LOBO WATCH
would like to congratulate Sportsmen for
Fish and
Wildlife for making the headlinesfrom
Defenders of Wildlife.
And tips its hat to Cabela's and
Sportsman's Warehouse for
realizing who their customers are, and supports
efforts to more
closely control predators - including the wolf.
I received the attached Defenders of
Wildlife press release last night,
calling for its members to boycott these two outdoor
sports retailers,
for sponsoring controlled predator management. It
also shares that
Nikon bowed in to the pressure and withdrew
its sponsorship of
SFW predator hunting derbies.
My only question about all of this is,
"Where are major outdoor
sports companies like Bass Pro Shops...Bushnell
...WinchesterAmmunition...Ruger...Remington...Hornady...
Leupold...Realtree Camouflage...Thompson/Center
Arms...
and the vast majority of others in an industry that
relies on
shooting and hunting for its livelihood? Are they
too cowardly to take a stand for saving the quality
of hunting
we've enjoyed for the past 30 or 40 years?"
Perhaps it's time for sportsmen to do a little
boycotting of their own...
for what these companies ARE NOT
doing.
Several dozen hunters that I've already sent this to
have responded
that Nikon is no longer an option
when it
comes time to buy a new riflescope or set of
binoculars.
It's time for sportsmen in this country to support
only those companies
who are working hard to save our wildlife and
hunting...and to forget
about those who so easily cave in to the pressures
of anti-hunting
groups likeDefenders of Wildlife.
Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH
406 542-9751
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I have
had a number of requests to publish on the LOBO
WATCH website maps that would share the location of
wolves in Montana and Idaho.
The following link will take you to the start of
that effort - beginning with Montana.
If you would, please take a few minutes to share
areas where you have encountered wolves, their
tracks, their kills, wolf depredation, or if you
were one of the lucky ones - where you killed a wolf
during the 2009 wolf season here in Montana. If
you've shot one otherwise, just report it as a
sighting. What you do to handle how wolves are
destroying our big game hunting and livestock
production is entirely up to you. I know what I'll
do if one steps out in front of me while hiking,
camping or fishing this spring...but will report it
as a sighting.
Please keep it all within the past 12 months - and
if you have a lot, keep it to the most recent 5 or 6
know locations.
http://www.lobowatch.com/WolfLocator.html
I'd like to get at least 8 or 10 other on before
actually publishing a link to the page. And if you
don't want to use your full name, just give your
first name and the town/city where you live.
Thanks,
Toby
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