Comments on: Wyoming Senator Has Few Choice Words For Fellow Congressmen http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/01/17/wyoming-senator-has-few-choice-words-for-fellow-congressmen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wyoming-senator-has-few-choice-words-for-fellow-congressmen Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gary http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/01/17/wyoming-senator-has-few-choice-words-for-fellow-congressmen/#comment-6921 Gary Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:58:30 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/01/17/wyoming-senator-has-few-choice-words-for-fellow-congressmen/#comment-6921 Wolves feeding on deer, elk, and other wildlife do not constitute a problem. If there are not enough excess deer, elk, etc. to allow hunting at previous levels, so be it. You do not a have a fundamental right to hunt these animals. Hunting a privilege that can only be enjoyed when there is a sufficient population. Simply because wolves feed on game animals does not make them a problem. If they are killing livestock than by all means protect your cows, sheep, whatever. Maybe the wolf should be delisted, maybe it shouldn't. However, the impact on hunting has absolutely nothing to do with what the wolf's status should be. Mr. Barrasso is simply pandering to his base. If killing wildlife constitutes a problem, then I assume Mr. Barrasso doen't support hunting? Wolves feeding on deer, elk, and other wildlife do not constitute a problem. If there are not enough excess deer, elk, etc. to allow hunting at previous levels, so be it. You do not a have a fundamental right to hunt these animals. Hunting a privilege that can only be enjoyed when there is a sufficient population. Simply because wolves feed on game animals does not make them a problem.

If they are killing livestock than by all means protect your cows, sheep, whatever. Maybe the wolf should be delisted, maybe it shouldn’t. However, the impact on hunting has absolutely nothing to do with what the wolf’s status should be. Mr. Barrasso is simply pandering to his base. If killing wildlife constitutes a problem, then I assume Mr. Barrasso doen’t support hunting?

]]>