Federal Judge Stops Alaska Fish And Game From Killing Wolves – Rome Burns!

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While a ruptured oil well spews forth its environmental venom, contaminating the Gulf of Mexico and depositing tar balls and crude oil onto beaches and destroying marshes and sensitive wildlife areas, BP lies to the people and the Obama Administration is so inept the only thing it can do is put on parties and rock concerts. Kick ass Barry O!

While the environment is being destroyed, our government is so riddled with ignorance and lack of common sense, driven by personal agendas and political ideals, it can only see that doing environmental impact studies and getting all the proper paperwork in place, while Rome burns, is what is needed.

Have we come to this? Have we ……..? Oh, wait! I’m sorry. This post is supposed to be about a federal judge stopping Alaska’s wildlife management program not the Gulf oil spill.

Well, that’s alright. The same lead in will work. So, while I’m on the subject of governmental ignorance and incompetence how about them federal judges?

U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland said his hands were tied by laws forcing him to rule against the Alaska Fish and Game Department in their desire to kill seven wolves on Unimak Island because the caribou herd there has been reduced from 1,200 to 400. Caribou on this island are used for subsistence for Alaskans living there. For those in San Francisco, that means the Alaskans eat them to live, much the same way that you live at Starbucks and McDonald’s.

Maybe Judge Holland felt his hands were tied, but when you read stuff like what is found in an article at Yahoo! News, written by the Associated Press, one has to wonder if the judge is smart enough to know he had no options. Here’s a short list of some of the things Holland said according to the AP:

1. “U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland said that while sympathetic to the state’s argument, he had to abide by law when ruling against the state’s request to immediately conduct predator control in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on Unimak Island.”
2. “Somebody’s governmental pride will be bruised here and there is no avoiding that,”
3. “It is the federal agency’s prerogative to decide what they have decided.”
4. “Holland found that the court didn’t need to step in now and try and prevent immediate harm to rural residents because “the harm has already been done.”"
5. “He acknowledged that the herd is in a “bad situation” but felt in time that could be remedied.”
6. “Holland made clear in his concluding remarks that he couldn’t understand why the federal agency hadn’t worked more cooperatively with the state,”

Gee Whiz! That all sounds like reasons to believe his hands were tied. I’ll be right back. I’m going to get a drink of “Kool-Aid”.

Ahhhhhh!

However, the Federal Government-run agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, along with their lawyers and assorted cronies, were even worse than the judge.

1. “But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argued it is bound by certain environmental laws that must be considered, and that takes time.”
2. “The federal agency late Monday announced it would allow the state to relocate 20 bull caribou from another herd off the island to Unimak in hopes it would lead to better calf production in future years.”
3. “But Department of Justice lawyer Dean Dunsmore said the agency does not consider the situation an emergency. He pointed out that the state informed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service less than six months ago that it believed the herd was in dire straits.”
4. “Since then, Dunsmore said the government has been working with the state on a permit issue requiring consideration of the National Environmental Policy Act, also called NEPA.”
5. “”The government has been clearly working with the state to act on its permit but must follow NEPA — and is trying to do so,”"
6. “Bill McAllister, spokesman for the Department of Law, said the killing of seven wolves is “off the table” as a practical matter because help this calving season would come too late for the herd.”

Gov. Jindal of Louisiana can’t protect his shore lands and marshes because Government has to study the effects building sand berms would have on the environment.

Here’s some advice to both Louisiana and Alaska. Just kill seven damned wolves and get hauling sand!

When wildlife management becomes agenda-driven politics, science is obsolete, common sense vanishes and Rome burns while the fools hide their buckets full of water in hopes of saving the water.

While oil continues to spew into the Gulf and ignorance rules the day, the only effort we should expect from BP is for them to do whatever it takes to retrieve the oil not stop it. The oil means money. And Obama can go suck a raw egg. All he’s done is point a basketball, golf and party-weary finger and say he’s going to go kick some ass. Classy act and lack of leadership.

Rome burns!

Tom Remington

http://www.alaskahuntingtoday.com/bearcountry/ Chuck

The people of Unimak Island ask Sec. Salazar in a letter to allow the state to go ahead with the wolf control. Last spring the chairs of the regional subsistence councils met with Sec. Salazar to discuss the USFW’s take over of game management on federal lands in Alaska. One of the topics was predator control, the regional councils ask the Secretary to align federal predator control policy with that of the states. Apparently they opted not to. So much for peoples need’s.
ar

Again, Tom. You are the nice guy when it comes to describing the Criminal activities by the US someFish noWildlife with No Servive. (USFWS)

ADF&G has been told by the same criminal USFW and no Service that culling the wolves would result in fines.

USFWS has as much as said go kill the damned wolves and suspect fines; as they have no intention of culling wolves – ANYWHERE, any time for any reason.

Game herds collaspe and they set on their hands doing nothing while refusing to do their jobs. Sounds criminal to me.

And while they wait for impact results the situation continues to deteriorate to beyond recovery. They have to go away; and VERY good ridence.

They act with such authority (not granted) and everyone seems to be scared of them. I suggest disregarding all of USFWS and prosecute for detrimental damages through out the United States.

Forming directly out of the Green Peace movement and Save Planet Earth -syco babel communists, and headed by Jesuit Priest McSorely. US Forestry and No Service is the same damned thing as USFW and no Service – Communist think tanks infiltrating our various departments – and did i mention they lie all day long about it. A lot like Lee does; all day. Sorry Lee for that. But you have been duped into those thots of yours. Consider an other side. any side but criminal activities of the communist infiltrated our departments of Services.

Go shoot the wolves via state law. The USFWS is a terrorist organization along with the USForestry and No Service.
Tom Remington

I think we are looking at a pretty good opportunity for Alaska to push back against Federal intrusion. We’re talking about killing 7 wolves in order to feed human beings. Why is that a difficult solution to comprehend?

Kill the damned wolves and be subject to the fines. If they get fined, tell them they are broke and will pay the fines when they can.
ar

As soon as we don’t have to spend all our money buying meat.

Unless ADFG is ready to let USFW and no Service be their mama, The boys in company A should take off their skirts, mount up and go do their jobs like they had a pair.
http://bluehorseoutfitters.com Jim Richards

Forget the judge and feed the folks. Take the wolves out.
Art Greenwalt

As a 41-year resident of Alaska and one who has hunted here extensively, I have watched our wildlife being mismanaged under our past 3 govs (Murkowski, Palin, Parnell) to culminate in this atrocity.
Two facts to remember:
1. The bull:cow ratio is 5:100 and the bulls are old so reproductive rates and calf health are low.
2. In the past 9 years, residents took only 12 animals while trophy-hunters took 90 of the best bulls.
This is data from our own state Fish and Game Dept.
Killing wolves will not address this imbalance created by trophy-hunting and mismanagement by the state.
The USFWS is considering transplanting young bulls to the island. That WILL help.
The state (and others as here) are playing the predictable “poor little state vs big nasty feds” card because the actual data does not support their views. This was mismanaged by Alaska and now the ADFG wants the easy way out.
BTW, the residents of False Pass, the only town on the island, do most of their hunting on the mainland where the terrain is easier. That is but a few miles away while the caribou are 75 miles away on the other side of island, no road access.
Maybe Mr. Remington needs to do some real research instead of depending on hearsay and secondhand articles from biased sources. We see his sort of casual journalism all the time up here in Alaska.
Greg Farber

Art

I’m going to stick with notable Alaskans who disagree with you such as the journals of Frank Glaser, 1915-1955 (Alaska’s Wolf man, and his successful efforts to save Moose and Caribou from wolves. And http://www.gardnerfiles.com/alaska%202-a.pdf and- A Case History of Wolf-Human Encounters in Alaska and Canada
http://www.wc.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/techpubs/research_pdfs/techb13_full.pdf and > Coronation Island.. The killing of wolves to boost moose and caribou populations in Alaska has made headlines all over the country. Back in 1960, a government program to stock an Alaska island with wolves received less attention.
The terrain of Coronation Island, which Alaska biologists stocked with wolves in 1960 Photo by Dave Klein
Alaska had been a state for one year when its Department of Fish and Game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in southeast Alaska. At the time, the remote 45-square-mile island exposed to the open Pacific had a high density of blacktailed deer and no wolves. In 1960, biologists from Fish and Game released two pairs of wolves on the island.
The experiment was the only wolf-stocking effort undertaken in Alaska and probably worldwide at that time, said Dave Klein, a professor emeritus with the University of Alaska’s Institute of Arctic Biology. Klein, who had studied deer on the island for his Ph.D. thesis, helped the state make the decision to transplant wolves on Coronation Island.
“Alaska had just become a state and you had a brand new Department of Fish and Game staffed with young biologists who wanted to do things based on biology rather than a mix of politics and science. It’d be much more difficult to do it now.”
In 1960, Fish and Game biologists released two male and two female wolves at Egg Harbor on Coronation Island. Before they left, the researchers shot five deer to provide food for the wolves.
Biologist Paul Garceau visited the island in May 1961 and found tracks, deer remains, and wolf scats containing deer hair and bones, showing that the wolves had adapted to life on the island. Two months later, a commercial fisherman shot the two adult female wolves, but Garceau saw tracks of wolf pups on the island when he returned later that summer, indicating that the females had given birth before they died, and the pups had survived.
In 1964, Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Harry Merriam explored the island for eight days and saw 11 adult wolves and the tracks of two pups. He estimated that at least 13 wolves lived on the island and three litters of young had been born since the first wolves had arrived.
The following summer, in 1965, Merriam spent 10 days on the island, seeing wolf tracks on all the beaches. He saw no sign of deer on the north side of the island, but found deer tracks on the steep slopes of the island’s south side, where rough terrain and dense brush may have provided the best chance for deer to escape wolves.
In February 1966, Merriam saw only three wolves on the island, and their tracks suggested they were the only wolves left. He examined more than 100 wolf scats; six of those contained wolf remains only, suggesting the animals had resorted to cannibalism. Deer remains in the scats were less than one half of the previous spring; fragments of birds, seals, sea creatures and small mammals constituted the rest.
In August of 1966, Merriam and his partners collected seven wolf scats, compared to 201 one year before. They found just three sets of fresh deer tracks. By 1968, one wolf remained on the island. Biologists who inventoried the island’s animals in 1983 found no evidence of wolves, but the deer were once again plentiful.
Alaska’s only wolf-stocking experiment taught biologists the importance of habitat size (they concluded that a 45-square mile island was too small for both deer and wolves). The study also showed how many factors play into the dynamics of a wild animal population, which is a point Klein said many people miss in current arguments about wolf control.
“The relationship between wolves and their prey is very complex,” he said. “Sometimes wolves are the key predators of caribou or moose, sometimes bears. Sometimes severe weather is the main factor, sometimes food availability.
“The main problem with these kinds of controversies is people are unwilling to look at the complexity of the ecosystems involved. Things are not simple in nature.”
This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute
Greg Farber

What the u.s gov misleads the public with is the Coronation Island experiment was a success, and filed away for future use. Of course resident hunters feeding their families and the u.s. gov have different definitions of success. u.s. gov success means rural resident hunters failure. Division, loss of rights, turning independent people into dependent putty in u.s. gov hands is a success for them.. Like Kissinger bragged on, ” control the resources of water and food and we control the people “.. No shit.
Diana Schrump

When are we going to face facts about the wolves? When are we going to stop people that never get outdoors or out of the office? Then that stop the people that do get outdoors from enjoying the outdoors like walking with a pet or just walking and being stalked,chased,getting attacked by wolves. Why is it that the goverment and the people can’t face the truth and fats about the wolves. Anybody that hunts or has spend any amount of time in the outdoors and see that the coyotes take the sick and the weak. The genetic monsters that they have made can take down a healthy full size elk one on one isn’t right. We had a logger attack and some are saying killed here in Wis back in April this is being hidden so the people don’t find out. Back in 2000 the same Willow pack that attack this logger attack bird hunters again was kept silent!

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