"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Releasing apex predators is not a problem to the state and federal agencies, especially here in Washington State. They started with wolves, grizzlies are next.
A woman hiker was trapped in a tree for hours by a wolf pack in Eastern Washington. She was rescued by a farmer, who shot one of the wolves. Said farmer was criticized by those same agencies for shooting that wolf, instead of taking other measures.
There are black bears and cougars around me. I have never had a problem with them. I don't go into the woods unarmed, though. A grizzly? That's a whole nuther thing.
could be, the article says there's farms and orchards nearby an I think most rural areas are populated with republicans; the cities are all liberal and outnumber the rural population.
Actually, Rebecca, that should be the "northern Cascades in Washington State". But the subject area is on the east side of the Cascades in the 4th District of Washington State, which is what Representative Newhouse represents in Congress.
And, yes, that area votes Republican. And it's a very rural part of the state, lots of federally owned lands, plus tribal lands. Hence it's easy to dump an apex predator species there, the gray wolf being the previous "experiment".
The flip side is that predator species will expand and migrate. Western Washington is a very blue area, especially northwest Washington ... ... and there are confirmed wolf packs west of the Cascades.
Eventually, there will be grizzlies on the west side as well. A point that the donk base ignores.
The government (federal or state, I can't recall) reintroduced red wolves into eastern North Carolina back in the mid 1960s. Many of them starved to death, others were run over by cars as they trotted across busy roads in the early morning hours, and still others were killed by farmers who found them helping themselves to their chickens. There are, today, an estimated 23 red wolves in the wild in eastern North Carolina. Not - if you'll pardon me - exactly a howling success, is it?
Releasing apex predators is not a problem to the state and federal agencies, especially here in Washington State. They started with wolves, grizzlies are next.
ReplyDeleteA woman hiker was trapped in a tree for hours by a wolf pack in Eastern Washington. She was rescued by a farmer, who shot one of the wolves. Said farmer was criticized by those same agencies for shooting that wolf, instead of taking other measures.
Not the Bee... oh well.
ReplyDeleteThere are black bears and cougars around me. I have never had a problem with them. I don't go into the woods unarmed, though. A grizzly? That's a whole nuther thing.
How about introducing grizzly bears to Washington, D.C.? I can get behind that. Or killer bees?
ReplyDeleteWhat, did northern Washington state vote Republican or something?
ReplyDeletecould be, the article says there's farms and orchards nearby an I think most rural areas are populated with republicans; the cities are all liberal and outnumber the rural population.
ReplyDeleteActually, Rebecca, that should be the "northern Cascades in Washington State". But the subject area is on the east side of the Cascades in the 4th District of Washington State, which is what Representative Newhouse represents in Congress.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, that area votes Republican. And it's a very rural part of the state, lots of federally owned lands, plus tribal lands. Hence it's easy to dump an apex predator species there, the gray wolf being the previous "experiment".
The flip side is that predator species will expand and migrate. Western Washington is a very blue area, especially northwest Washington ... ... and there are confirmed wolf packs west of the Cascades.
Eventually, there will be grizzlies on the west side as well. A point that the donk base ignores.
The government (federal or state, I can't recall) reintroduced red wolves into eastern North Carolina back in the mid 1960s. Many of them starved to death, others were run over by cars as they trotted across busy roads in the early morning hours, and still others were killed by farmers who found them helping themselves to their chickens. There are, today, an estimated 23 red wolves in the wild in eastern North Carolina. Not - if you'll pardon me - exactly a howling success, is it?
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