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In reply to the discussion: Half of Idaho's wolves gone in a year, thanks to Obama's Sect'y of the Interior [View all]You are part of the problem.
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Half of Idaho's wolves gone in a year, thanks to Obama's Sect'y of the Interior [View all]
villager
May 2012
OP
So long as there's one teabagger in Idaho, there won't be room for even one wolf here
jmowreader
May 2012
#11
Damn, we'd better get rid of all environmental laws, then, lest we piss off the destroyers!
villager
May 2012
#94
for me, it was the selection of Salazar-the-rancher for Interior that signaled "business as usual"
villager
May 2012
#16
Why don't we just wipe out all wild life? This way human profiteers would not have anything more
sabrina 1
May 2012
#53
You probably never WILL hear a liberal person say something like that, either.
Judi Lynn
May 2012
#24
What a disgusting, horrific post. Welfare ranchers with invasive cow species are destroying
villager
May 2012
#17
actually, one reason coyote populations have expanded is because we killed off the wolves
villager
May 2012
#93
The reason kudzu is considered an invasive species is because it did not originally come
Jamastiene
May 2012
#27
i may be missing something but I don't see where it's said they died off naturally.
Kaleva
May 2012
#34
Yet we somehow managed without them for 70 years before they were artificially brought back?
LAGC
May 2012
#37
Humans can do fine without the wolves but other species of animals and plants suffered.
Kaleva
May 2012
#40
Didn't large wildfires in the early 1900's create a suitable habitat for elk to move into.
Kaleva
May 2012
#42
Whether the habitat was altered by fire or not, the elk herd was introduced by man
IDemo
May 2012
#44
Correction - the elk population at that time was in the panhandle and the eastern part of the state
IDemo
May 2012
#49
Homicide rate in US would plummet if all victims were listed as dieing of natural causes.
Kaleva
May 2012
#72
You've got to admit though that most Idahoans aren't that sympathetic to the wolf problem.
LAGC
May 2012
#51
"Their devastation to live-stock and wild game populations cannot be understated."
Rob H.
May 2012
#63
No. Sarah Palin has NEVER been right about anything unless it was a mistake.
truebrit71
May 2012
#115
We don't need high-powered rifles from helicopters. Spears and bows & arrows are quite sufficient.
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#89
Wolves...like any wild animals...are renewable resources which need to be managed.
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#74
I'm speaking of some of the posts in this thread, not the letter in the OP.
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#91
I never made any such claim. I will assert that it's cherry-picked to make wolves look adorable.
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#142
No -- not every other species on earth is a "renewable" "resource" for Lord God Man.
villager
May 2012
#92
I'm sure our canned hunt fan understands just how much we've lost and what it is still at risk.
ellisonz
May 2012
#120
I love science. Best tool ever invented to investigate and utilize the universe.
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#124
Isn't it funny how the term "fully exploited" is used instead of "fully utilized".
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#122
Given that *millions* of species have gone extinct in the last 4 billion years,
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#159
The one that supports the middle-class, Heinlein-reading lifestyle to which you are accustomed
villager
May 2012
#131
I'm already eating less meat, and buying less new stuff than you. Match that, instead of
villager
May 2012
#134
we should quit industrializing cows and chickens, for one thing, and viewing them as "products"
villager
May 2012
#160
The appointment of Ken Salazar to interior has been worse than James Watt..
truebrit71
May 2012
#106