More Idaho Citizens Are Speaking Up About Wolves
February 25, 2010
The drum has been beating for years that “the citizens” want wolves in their forests and fields. Perhaps they did before they began learning what the truth was about having so many of them that now they are showing up in their back and front yards.
The Benewah County Commissioners voted 2-0-1 to adopt their own wolf management plan, which is an amendment to their current predator plan.
The document states that the Board of Commissioners both “recognizes that the existence of the wolf in Benewah County threatens the culture, heritage, customs, property, and lives of the people of the county and restricts their free use of their own real estate and public lands” and considers the wolves to “represent an economic and cultural emergency.”
“It is our recommendation for wolf management to be coordinated with whichever agency is managing wolves,”
That agency at present is the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The commission hopes to be able to work with IDFG in order to reduce wolf populations by expanding take methods. This is something I have written about in the past. They also want to begin to educate the citizens about the dangers of habituating wolves.
Tom Remington
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When they proposed 150 wolves in our wilderness, that sounded reasonable. Now that we have nearly 10x that number it has become a problem for many rural Idaho towns and villages. The impacts on rural families (non-rancher) has been significant, yet this is often overlooked by the media.
Thank you for posting this information Mr. Remington.
You are absolutely right! I place blame for this “rebellion” by the people, squarely in the laps to those who refuse to acknowledge the restoration was long ago complete. This includes but is not limited to the many “conservation” and “environmental” groups, who have wasted hours and hours and tons of money on ridiculous lawsuits. At blame as well are the courts for being snookered by the enviros into believing their faux science and for the USFWS and Department of Interior for following in the path of the same groups, discarding their own promises.
These all have created an atmosphere, much like what exists across this country from the political corruption, and have now caused the people, prompting their local, county and state governments, to fight back against this.
It blows my mind that anybody or group can be so set in their way about exactly how they intend to have their way, that they will destroy what they set out to do. It really gives one pause to stop and ask, “What was their plan all along when they sold us this wolf reintroduction?”
Or is this simply some kind of mental illness?