in areas including the eastern third of the state. Similar controversy is building in, where proponents of reintroducing gray wolves submitted signatures Tuesday for an initiative on the state ballot next November, despite opposition from ranchers and state wildlife commissioners.
said McIrvin, who said his family would continue to oppose what they see as a broader agenda of wolf advocates and officials. “Year after year, Diamond M reportedly loses cattle to wolves while neighboring producers are able to effectively protect their herds,” said Claire Loebs Davis, an attorney for wolf advocates suing the state wildlife department.
Jay Holzmiller, a southeast Washington hunter and cattle rancher who served a recent six-year term on the state wildlife commission, countered that politicians in the state’s urban areas wield decisive power. “The ranching and hunting community does not have near the influence, nor near the number of attorneys, as ... the environmental side does,” he said.
“Wolves are what make the wild wild,” said Amaroq Weiss, the Center for Biological Diversity’s senior West Coast wolf advocate, who sees them as crucial to the evolutionary process in which the fittest survive. “If you love ungulates, and how athletic and fast and muscular they are, you have wolves to thank for that,” she said.
The state wildlife agency is allowed to kill wolves after three attacks on livestock in 30 days, or four in 10 months. Officials say they also consider whether shooting or trapping wolves would jeopardize recovery of the species, and whether the cattle owner has used nonlethal measures to prevent attacks.
RichReadReports Pissed off!! NO I don’t want to see cattle killed, that’s horrible but I also don’t want to see these wolves slaughtered!! This rancher could work with others, use the Range Riders & keep his animals away from dens! I feel he’s trying to have them killed! 🤬
RichReadReports Let's hear it for cow farmin' heroes
RichReadReports Jeez wtf. Wolves are about to become ZOO watch.
RichReadReports Not cool
RichReadReports Environmentalists are just that mental?
RichReadReports It seems strange that the rangers send their cattle into the national forest, aka the wild, then get upset that predators eat them.
RichReadReports “Seattle doesn’t ask us what to do with their homeless.” WTF their homeless. Also it’s tough to protect your🐮 yet that’s your JOB. Instead of having wolves shot from 🚁maybe idk protect you 🐮better.
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