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August 06, 2009
Crying Wolf, Calling Bluff - 7
That clicking sound you hear? It’s the oiled-steel rotation of an Old West six-gun, the classic signal of a coming showdown, of a gunman idly wheeling the cylinder before putting it to use. It’s been heard all across the West this year, but the sound is getting more incessant. The issue to be resolved in the dust of main street at high noon Whether we get to hunt wolves this fall. And there’s a new wrinkle to the posturing that’s been keeping wolves in the news, but out of our crosshairs: An Idaho Fish & Game Commissioner has indicated that he thinks hunters will illegally kill wolves this winter if they aren’t allowed to hunt them legally. “It will either be a state-authorized (hunt) or it will be an illegal one,” Commissioner Randy Budge told a group of Western attorneys (www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005127242) this week. It’s not spoken of openly, but wildlife officials in Boise, Helena and Cheyenne are worried about the backlash from normally law-abiding hunters if wolves are protected yet again this winter in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The notion that wolf numbers need to be controlled is so prevalent that if one is killed illegally, the list of suspects would number the tens of thousands. This week could decide whether the hunt is sanctioned or not. Sometime in the next few days, Idaho is expected to announce its quota for a wolf season this fall, and a lot hinges on the number. “If Idaho comes up with a conservative quota, then I think we could squeak by,” said an official with Montana’s Fish, Wildlife & Parks Department. “But if they authorize a really liberal quota, then not only could we get sued again, but a judge could issue an injunction to stop the season.” That would be a travesty, because Montana has already authorized a wolf season for this fall, with the relatively restrained harvest quota of 75 wolves. That’s a modest start to manage a wolf population estimated at more than 500 in Montana alone, but at least it would signal to hunters and ranchers (if not to nut-job environmentalists) that wolves could be treated like other trophy wildlife, hunted in a fair-chase season. Montana is on the verge of issuing hunting licenses for wolves, and once that happens, it will be hard to call back the season. But Idaho is a wild card. Not only does the Gem State have more wolves than the other states (upward of 800 according to some biologists) but the tolerance of its sportsmen has reached the breaking point. Which brings us back to Commissioner Budge’s veiled threat, and the suspenseful clicking sound of that spinning cylinder.
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Comments (7)
It looks to me like the population numbers support limited hunts in both states. I say this from the opposite corner of the country so maybe my vote doesn't count.
Aren't Idaho residents already using the shoot, shovel, and shut up philosophy?
I'm not at all sure that those targeting wolves will bother to shovel, one it attracts attention and two it tends to slow the process. I was wondering why I've noticed people buying full metal jacket bullets recently....maybe now I know.
Civil Disobedience - "Resistance to Civil Government"
By Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the time has come to blow the dust of Thoreau theory to affect change and engage in some time honored "civil disobedience"
Charlieelk, surely you know that it is only meant for liberals to engage in civil disobedience. When they do it, it is a noble calling. When conservatives do it, we are nothing more than ruffians or NAZI's as Pelosi called them. They use a double standard. The Obamantion, who was a community organizer cannot deal with communities who organize against him. And as far as Pelosi's comment about the NAZI's. NAZI was a shortened form of the National Socialist party, You know the people who nationalized their auto industry, took over the health care industry, the banks... Does any of that sound familiar? And we all know how great their health care system worked under Hitler, the elderly and disabled just disappeared and "mercy killing" became a better alternative.
Yea you are right about that Bo, but it is time to take more main stream.
Your point on mercy killing is already happening have you seen this video?
Oregon says no to chemotherapy, offers assisted suicide instead --
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/03/video-oregon-says-no-to-chemothera...
taggs go on sale monday the 24th.
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It looks to me like the population numbers support limited hunts in both states. I say this from the opposite corner of the country so maybe my vote doesn't count.
Aren't Idaho residents already using the shoot, shovel, and shut up philosophy?
Charlieelk, surely you know that it is only meant for liberals to engage in civil disobedience. When they do it, it is a noble calling. When conservatives do it, we are nothing more than ruffians or NAZI's as Pelosi called them. They use a double standard. The Obamantion, who was a community organizer cannot deal with communities who organize against him. And as far as Pelosi's comment about the NAZI's. NAZI was a shortened form of the National Socialist party, You know the people who nationalized their auto industry, took over the health care industry, the banks... Does any of that sound familiar? And we all know how great their health care system worked under Hitler, the elderly and disabled just disappeared and "mercy killing" became a better alternative.
I'm not at all sure that those targeting wolves will bother to shovel, one it attracts attention and two it tends to slow the process. I was wondering why I've noticed people buying full metal jacket bullets recently....maybe now I know.
Civil Disobedience - "Resistance to Civil Government"
By Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the time has come to blow the dust of Thoreau theory to affect change and engage in some time honored "civil disobedience"
Yea you are right about that Bo, but it is time to take more main stream.
Your point on mercy killing is already happening have you seen this video?
Oregon says no to chemotherapy, offers assisted suicide instead --
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/03/video-oregon-says-no-to-chemothera...
taggs go on sale monday the 24th.
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