House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves

[SummerMadness]

House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves

The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Friday to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, reopening a lengthy battle over the predator species.

Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the U.S. by the mid-20th century. Since securing protection in the 1970s, wolves have bounced back in the western Great Lakes states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as in the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[thecolorsblend]

Gray wolves are pretty deadly. This probably isn't a bad thing.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves

I'm sad for the gray wolf. The waya is a very important part of Native American culture and always has been. To quote Chief Luther Standing Bear, “The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.” Such disregard for these creatures and for nature is disheartening.

 

[Tanj]

Adapt or die Mr Wolf. Your cousins learned the lesson.

 

[redleghunter]

Gray wolves are pretty deadly. This probably isn't a bad thing.

I heard they are not bad with hollandaise sauce.

 

[comana]

Gray wolves are pretty deadly. This probably isn't a bad thing.

Allowing the demise of top predators usually comes with unwanted consequences.

 

[redleghunter]

Allowing the demise of top predators usually comes with unwanted consequences.

They are lifting the federal protections not calling for an open season.

 

[thecolorsblend]

They are lifting the federal protections not calling for an open season.

I don't think the distinction will be fully appreciated here.

 

[comana]

They are lifting the federal protections not calling for an open season.

I’m not so confident that ranchers won’t interpret it as a free pass to open season.

 

[redleghunter]

I'm sad for the gray wolf. The waya is a very important part of Native American culture and always has been. To quote Chief Luther Standing Bear, “The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.” Such disregard for these creatures and for nature is disheartening.

Perhaps a solution is to relocate a sizable amount of these wolves to Native Nation lands?

 

[Duke fan]

The gray wolf is God’s creation, and I hope they don’t go extinct. Other species such as deer could overpopulate without natural predators. We still have coyotes though who are populating. Hard decision!

 

[redleghunter]

The gray wolf is God’s creation, and I hope they don’t go extinct. Other species such as deer could overpopulate without natural predators. We still have coyotes though who are populating. Hard decision!

Conservation is key.

 

[Nithavela]

Good, more death.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Gray wolves are pretty deadly. This probably isn't a bad thing.

The last time a wolf attacked a night club and school were horrible!

 

[thecolorsblend]

The last time a wolf attacked a night club and school were horrible!

I acknowledge that you’re attempting to make a point.

But I must also acknowledge that your point is not clear to me.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Perhaps a solution is to relocate a sizable amount of these wolves to Native Nation lands?

Speaking as a conservationist and as an environmentalist, I would like to see the gray wolf remain within its own natural habitat without the threat of the most dangerous animal and predator to ever walk the Earth, human beings who kill other animals for sport and trophies. I would like to see the gray wolf remain within its own natural habitat without the encroachment of greedy human beings, who tend to resemble a horde of locusts by devouring and destroying everything within their path.

 

[redleghunter]

Speaking as a conservationist and as an environmentalist, I would like to see the gray wolf remain within its own natural habitat without the threat of the most dangerous animal and predator to ever walk the Earth, human beings who kill other animals for sport and trophies. I would like to see the gray wolf remain within its own natural habitat without the encroachment of greedy human beings, who tend to resemble a horde of locusts by devouring and destroying everything within their path.

To hunt anything to extinction levels is illogical. Most hunters are conservationists.

However, you must consider that humans too are part of our natural habitat. We build farms and ranches and are not going anywhere. Strike the balance.