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Volaris

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23. I say, if you have a dead and half eaten cow,

Fri Jan 18, 2013, 09:23 PM

Jan 2013

you should be able to fill out a form at the local Federal Land Management Office, and let the Taxpayers re-imburse the price of the killed livestock (per that day's Market Price, plus maybe 10% for the pain of filling out the paperwork). In 10 days, no rancher in America would care how many cows the wolves eat, and it wouldn't be that many anyway, because there arent that many wolves LEFT.

To me it seems like an excuse to kill off a top preadator, and not much else.

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Fish and Game to spend more on reducing wolf population [View all] G_j Jan 2013 OP

Hi, I hunt. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #1

Wild boar are a nuisance where you live? Where do you live? ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #2

Where do you live? XemaSab Jan 2013 #3

I live in Western Montana. ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #4

They haven't gotten across the columbia river into WA yet. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #12

Wild pigs wreak havok on ecosystems. alarimer Jan 2013 #5

They're not indiginous? Where are they from? nt ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #6

brought here by Europeans Kali Jan 2013 #7

So the people who hunt them generally eat them? ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #9

yes but Kali Jan 2013 #10

You can, and some people do. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #11

Not here, no. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #8

one reason it is easy to 'collapse a wolf pack' G_j Jan 2013 #14

That was a sad article. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #16

They ruin the habitat for native species. Mojorabbit Jan 2013 #18

not ALL ranchers Kali Jan 2013 #13

Good point. Thank you. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #15

I forget where but G_j Jan 2013 #17

you can probably imagine how well that works out Kali Jan 2013 #19

is it direct knowledge of this G_j Jan 2013 #21

not direct for me, no Kali Jan 2013 #22

I say, if you have a dead and half eaten cow, Volaris Jan 2013 #23

I absolutely agree. Owl Jan 2013 #24

Wanna-be apex predators hate competition = humans. flvegan Jan 2013 #20