Thank you, Salt Lake Tribune, for your article, ("Should Mexican Wolves roam Utah?" Sept. 10).
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a sham.
This agency has done little for America’s wolf recovery. Instead of
protecting and encouraging acceptance of America’s wolves, they sit idle
while wolves are slaughtered. Recently they’ve proposed the delisting
of America’s gray wolves. (Mexican grays are excluded, for now.)
FWS permits the extermination of wolves based
on speculation. Relocating a wolf because it crosses a boundary line
disrupts the formation of new packs and the expansion of suitable
territory.
Reintroduced 15 years ago, the Mexican Grays
continue to struggle with 3 breeding pairs. Births are limited. Grays
are waiting for release while FWS stalls, wasting time and taxpayer
funds. The delay causes inbreeding and weakens the genetic pool,
reducing the Mexican grays’ survival if released.
Instead of encouraging wolf recovery, the FWS
submits to pressure from special interests, neglecting their obligation
to the majority of taxpayers.
As taxpayers we deserve a return on our investment in wolf recovery .
A full congressional investigation is
warranted into this slacking agency. They need to be accountable for
their lack of wolf recovery and wasting of taxpayers’ funds.
Irene Sette
New Milford, N.J.
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September 12, 2014 in Letters, Opinion
Mismanaging wolves
I am writing to express my sadness and disappointment over the fact
that the state of Washington seems to be following in Idaho’s footsteps
relative to wolf (mis)management. It appears that the alpha female of
the Huckleberry Pack was killed during a rather secretive assault before
nonlethal measures had been fully implemented.
Removing the alpha female from the pack was possibly the worst thing that could have been done if reducing depredations on livestock were the goal. Now that pack is leaderless and will not have guidance on where, how and what to prey upon.
Too many state wildlife management agencies in too many Western states seem to be catering far too much to the self-interests of livestock operators and not enough to the rest of the world, both human and animal. I, and many others, want the wolves to come first.
Barbara Moritsch
Eagle, Idaho
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Removing the alpha female from the pack was possibly the worst thing that could have been done if reducing depredations on livestock were the goal. Now that pack is leaderless and will not have guidance on where, how and what to prey upon.
Too many state wildlife management agencies in too many Western states seem to be catering far too much to the self-interests of livestock operators and not enough to the rest of the world, both human and animal. I, and many others, want the wolves to come first.
Barbara Moritsch
Eagle, Idaho
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