Mollie, I am glad to see you come around bud.
About 3 years ago I did , from what research I gather, a small report and found that since its inception the wolf intro has cost the taxpayer around 300,000,000 mill which did NOT include the reduction in hunter driven economies nor the livestock wolf kill vouchers. Wyoming alone has several areas , known wolf zones only ( doesn't pay to wolf kills outside of these zones) , where vouchers are paid out to the tune of about 400,000 annually and growing. A current bill is on the docket in Wyoming to provide vouchers for all livestock wolf kills.
The biggest pisseroffer for me are the western towns that were once funded by Elk, Mule Deer, Rocky Mountain Sheep etc where family businesses such as taxidermist, gun shops, outdoor clothing stores, horse packers, processors, bars, grills, hotels etc were shut down by the wolf.
Furthermore the Mckenzie Valley Wolf was the wolf chosen against the will of many biologist being that its prey behavior, pack hunting behavior and size were all dissimilar to the predator niche of the Rocky Mountain Gray. This was the predator niche to be filled in the first place.
No doubt the cervid decimination and spreading of the wolf was a known, and yet it continued absolutely by design as were the greeny lawsuits.
The anti hunters are same same with anti gun period. Massive money and social media campaigns are in effect to track down and punish those that practice SSS ( not a deep enough hole I reckon ) are and have been successful even when a rancher produces proof that he was constantly under attack by the same pack or pair of wolves.
These anti hunters groups / anti gun groups "mostly" failed at gun control, they "mostly" failed in lead bullet bans ( btw , thank you for copper monos) but they have hit a home run with predator protection and reintroduction.
Currently they have bills across the country to ban trapping period, see California. Bills to ban coyote rodeos and further they are now producing and pushing bills so wild as to include not exposing a domestic dog to low temperatures for even short periods of time and or even staking out your dog during a field trial. This would certainly fence in the retriever and houndsman communities. They are winning while the hunters bicker amongst themselves and fail to unify while thinking some NPO will protect them.
The anti hunter / anti gun equation is ingenious :
Reduce the game stocks + take away hunting success or enjoyment = reduce the hunter numbers = break the back bone of the 2nd amendment.
Currently there is a group pushing hard to reintroduce the Western Cougar into the East.
https://www.mountainlion.org/ActionA...terncougar.asp
Project coyote:
http://www.projectcoyote.org/endkillingcontests/
You won't change my mind on this one period. I have to deal with these loonies almost daily now and I swear I am NOT making this stuff up.
So you fellas , whether it be ducks, deer, turkeys, quail or rabbits that you enjoy hunting GET WOKE - take action and for the love of all things hunting in the South East don't buy this crap about coyotes not being a problem per Dr Yada Yadas findings or that for every one you kill you just made 50,000 gazzillion more.
Much agreed tack em all to the wall !
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