Wolf management

Wolf management

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Continuing my discussion with Mike Schlegel, retired Dept of Fish and Game official. "What would you say to a pro-wolf activist that the primary predator on elk is human beings? The Fish and Game Department through their management strategy sets the seasons and limits and sex specific harvest regulations and they can regulate that those populations so that they are not significantly impacted by hunting. Wolves on the other hand, operate 24-seven, 365 days a year. There is a lovely gal named Suzanne Stone,... I know Suzanne Stone, she is extremely biased. I was the department's representative on the fish and wildlife wolf recovery team. During that process in which the population goals and objectives for wolf recovery were determined, the Defenders of Wildlife never once challenged those data. Not until a plan was completed, and now they are crying wolf that the recovery goals are way too low. By and large the wolf issue has become a cash cow for many of these environmental groups. The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife through the equal access to justice act, they get compensation for legal activities. Used to their advantage to keep this process in the courts.
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