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In reply to the discussion: Gray Wolves No Longer Need Federal Protection, Obama Administration Says [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)33. I think you have the idea of population balance reversed.
Without the wolves we would have to increase the human culling of elves in Wyoming to keep them from over populating which damages their environment and in the long run damages a larger number of elk.
Unrestrained wolf population has led to a reduction of elk population from 20,000 to 10,000 so your two sentences become nonsense.
For the record I am against gun ownership. I personally have never hunted after my father told me how shooting one deer made him sick to his stomach and really don't have an interest in fishing for the same reason. However to ignore the basic system of natural predators and to allow the wolf to over populate is as stupid as over hunting them, and yes homo sapiens are the natural predator of the wolf in the natural ecosystem, so a regulated cull is in fact humane.
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Gray Wolves No Longer Need Federal Protection, Obama Administration Says [View all]
IDemo
Jun 2013
OP
rich hunters and guides, rich ranchers who lease federal land nearly for free....
wordpix
Jun 2013
#45
'game hunter' near yellowstone put sheep out there then got his 2 free wolf permits
Sunlei
Jun 2013
#50
Maybe Obama's telegraphing that the "Grey Wolves" in Turkey don't need "protection" any more...
cascadiance
Jun 2013
#11
Well, we no longer need 4th Amendment protection either, according to this same
villager
Jun 2013
#26
I am not surprised to find so many knee jerk reactions without any effort to find out the facts.
grantcart
Jun 2013
#28
Maybe you should have someone who can read help you out with this subthread, eh?
pipoman
Jun 2013
#86
don't lecture us on science when you just talked about the controlling and culling wolf populations
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#64
and you are telling us with a straight face that of the two, wolves are too numerous?
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#82
let's get the facts straight in talking about population: It's humans who are overpopulating
wordpix
Jun 2013
#49
O.is a greenhorn & easy to snooker..it's chronic wasting disease (gamefarms) and clim. change
Sunlei
Jun 2013
#47
Maybe we should turn the gray wolves loose on the criminals in charge of the NSA.
Faryn Balyncd
Jun 2013
#53
I think this is wrong but would welcome anyone showing that Im the one that's wrong.
Leontius
Jun 2013
#61