01-24-2010, 06:29 PM
I wholeheartedly agree with you. We need to respect the predators that once roamed this area. While I'm no anti hunting animal rights activist. Surely wolves had their place in the wild, and still do.
Utah and Idaho and elsewhere have what I call "Hunting Supremacist". Thinking that they are the "only ones" who should hunt Elk and Deer.
They are arrogant, knee jerking response folks that certainly don't realize that humans have invaded and destroyed Elk territory since day one. Take Colorado for example it once had—before the white man came—abundant Elk between Denver and Colorado City. The population of Elk in Colorado was like one million.... yes with wolves. Today the Elk herds are gone between those two cities....and forever.[shocked]
But what wiped the Elk herds out? Mr "modern man" white settlers did that....thank you very much. The wolf had them balanced with the ecosystem....perfectly too.
And by the way Elk were never a sustenance species to begin with. Perhaps with all the herds around the settlers thought they would never vanish. Surely the wolves did absolutely nothing to hurt the Elk herds. They even helped fish and beavers and other wildlife by keeping Elk from overpopulating.
Humans are the blame for lost Elk not wolves.
Glad someone here at BFT agrees with me about wolves. [cool]
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Utah and Idaho and elsewhere have what I call "Hunting Supremacist". Thinking that they are the "only ones" who should hunt Elk and Deer.
They are arrogant, knee jerking response folks that certainly don't realize that humans have invaded and destroyed Elk territory since day one. Take Colorado for example it once had—before the white man came—abundant Elk between Denver and Colorado City. The population of Elk in Colorado was like one million.... yes with wolves. Today the Elk herds are gone between those two cities....and forever.[shocked]
But what wiped the Elk herds out? Mr "modern man" white settlers did that....thank you very much. The wolf had them balanced with the ecosystem....perfectly too.
And by the way Elk were never a sustenance species to begin with. Perhaps with all the herds around the settlers thought they would never vanish. Surely the wolves did absolutely nothing to hurt the Elk herds. They even helped fish and beavers and other wildlife by keeping Elk from overpopulating.
Humans are the blame for lost Elk not wolves.
Glad someone here at BFT agrees with me about wolves. [cool]
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