Absolute power corrupts absolutely! Don’t believe it? Look at our wildlife and how they suffer at the hands of our corrupt officials in various offices in various agencies, including our illustrious government! 1 question comes to mind, WHY?
We are trying our best to see what good can come out of ANYTHING from H.R. 2406? The SHARE Act and all the riders it carries with it, but not having any luck… All we can come up with is 1 simple thing, WHY? What evidence and validation does our illustrious Government have that warrants these decisions. What exactly do they envision happening or developing out of these preposterous decisions? How will it benefit WE THE PEOPLE? Why does our wildlife have to suffer due to their misguided views and prior mistakes they’ve made along the way! What does our wildlife even have to DO with our budget in the first place? Wildlife doesn’t have to be de-listed just because you think it will help balance a budget! That lie is so transparent a child can see right though it so we are not sure who they are trying to kid! WE THE PEOPLE want our wildlife to be safe and protected because they are what real life is supposed to be all about. The H.R. 2406 Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act and it’s riders are a DEVASTATING attack against Wolves, which in turn will affect other wildlife as well as the economy and our ecosystem. xftlowx – Will we allow species to become extinct on our watch? If we let special interest groups persuade our government officials, there will be no wildlife left if there is money to be made. Business does not care for our land, our people, or our wildlife. They care about increasing profits. This is not what our government officials should be concerned with but instead to work for the people who elected them and the future of our country’s wilderness. As an elected official you can only receive a limited amount of funding from these businesses. The people can always outraise that number if you work for them. A certain grass roots funded candidate recently proved that in his campaign. Start working for the people and see a change in our country towards a prosperous future. – People are outraged by over hunting in Africa and species almost being wiped out, will we allow the same in the U.S. to our wildlife? In our own backyard we have irresponsible and bloodthirsty people who are the small minority who want to ravage the land and only kill for sport. Any chance they get to destroy a living being for bragging rights to their subculture is a chance that they will take. This is especially true for endangered species like wolves who are barely surviving in the wild. We see in Africa that Elephant’s, Rhino’s, and Lion’s are endangered. Yet there are only very few wolves left in the wilderness. Wolves’ are not a threat to humans. They are scared of humans and stay out of sight. Only trappers and hunters seek out these animals for their own gratification and provide absolutely no scientific evidence to back their actions to kill wolves. Enough is enough! We have killed millions of wolves as a country in the recent past. Give these living breathing animals a chance to be a part of our great wilderness as they have always been. They are almost gone and your rider to HR 2406 would make it so that they are no longer protected. – Will we allow fairytales and propaganda against wolves persuade us to ignore the science that proves wolves are valuable to natural ecosystems? If your knowledge of wolves comes from stories like the red riding hood and the 3 little pigs, then you are not fit to make educated decisions about killing or protecting this animal. Scientists have proven that wolves are not mindless monsters but in fact are one of the most intelligent mammals on the earth. They hunt to survive and keep the deer and elk population from various diseases. The green of the forests comes back because they herd the deer and keep them moving. Young trees have a chance to grow and grasslands can flourish. Even if Wolves don’t hunt this is true. – We spend millions to kill wildlife every year and barely support scientific efforts to preserve wildlife. The USDA Wildlife Services (WS) admitted recently in its annual report to having killed at least 3.2 million wild animals in the U.S. last year alone. Their budget is over $1.14 Billion tax dollars from 2004 to 2013. Total wild animals killed are 34 million. This is all in the name of protecting crops, farm animals, private property and even other species such as rare birds and prey species favored by hunters. – It’s clear that greedy special interest wants more land to set up business like logging, fracking, and cattle ranching. They want to ravage the land and kill all wildlife there in. They don’t represent the people, they represent their own interest. – Wolves were once wildlife that coexisted with humans in the north east United States. Now they are extirpated. This has occurred in the last 2 hundred years because of lack of regulation. In Maryland alone we have lost Gray Wolf, American Elk, Eastern Mountain Lion, Snowshoe hare, American marten, and Eastern harvest mouse. All to over hunting, cattle bounties, and irresponsible development. If we can learn from history we know how our American wildlife will end if we delist and deregulate efforts to preserve our true national treasure which is our wilderness land and wild beauty. Giovanni We the people want you to listen to our voice referring to H.R. 2406 Sportsman Heritage Recreational Enhancement act this new bill is unconstitutional. We are deeply troubled and do not agree with your bad decisions in which you are placing our wildlife into. Wolves should not be removed from the Endangered species protections this will surely cause extinction of the wolf due to more poaching and more trapping. The attacks on our wildlife is highly appalling, unethical and very unlogical it appears you are using our wildlife to satisfy special interests, hunters, gun lobbyists, ranchers and most of all for your own political gains. Also wolves should not be a tool to balance a budget they are Gods creatures removing them is a crime against nature and of the tax paying citizens in which you use our money to kill wolves. We the People Demand you leave Wolves Under Endangered Species protections and quit playing God with our wildlife you have no right! Connie To Whom it May Concern I’m not sure who’s reading this and doubt the right one’s will as an act of indifference, so bearing that in mind I’m not going to be as formal and polite as I could be and was taught to be when speaking to someone of authority. I no longer believe in or respect any authority, not one. There is no law, principle, or moral issue binding me from my decisions, and I may do things in a way you feel is ‘wrong” but I’ve have done every wrong thing for a “right” reason whether you like my methods of achievement or not. What you have done and allowed regarding the delisting of wolves as a federally protected species and by revoking their protected status nation-wide is like signing their warrant to execution and extinction. We all know you did it to sell the game lands for the gas and oil checks you’re getting because let me guess: “The most fertile and productive areas are in federally protected wildlife reserve lands, and if we can work right through the wolves we’ll give you a couple extra $500k if it makes you feel better about us killing off a species completely for your land and our money”………..Did this seriously just happen in a sane and rational world? Clearly some of you are either being deliberately obtuse or your uneducated asses doesn’t remember Yellowstone National Park and the Ecological destruction of the entire park in less than a decade due to the removal of wolves……5000 acres of Aspen trees dead, herd over-population beyond control, but tourist #’s were up so the dust and litter and money increased, but the land of the entire park died!!!!! Wolves are a “keystone species” just like human beings!! If you remove all of them from an environment, the rest of the entire environment will fall totally out of balance and die, rapidly!!! I guess you never saw I Am Legend with Will Smith….. Just moving into places and taking lives of an entire species will destroy the land. That goes for every damn land in every damn state, not just the ones wolves are in. But we have ended the existence of far too many species of life due to our greed and expansions as humans. We had federally protected lands for a reason!!! They were to be kept as natural preserves so people could experience true nature, not make money selling the damned mineral rights and destroying habitats and lives!!! Wouldn’t even be down with it if it were them coming and saying they had to bulldoze your home with your family because an gas pad or oil pump was going in, and that’s just tough shit for you, it’s going to happen. Not cool now, is it. But you’ll be ok with someone completely destroying your home and all your memories and lives as long as they offer enough money to buy a new one as nice or better. You’ve all sold out; you sold your souls for this. No lives matter more than others, not even human. To crush and unprotect this species is a moral error and I feel it’s the worst mistake in wildlife ever. Please do not do this. You can reverse the legislation, you can protect them. Do not allow this to pass. I know I said it like an asshole, but you know dam well I’m right. Make peace with it, and yourself. Protect the Wolves!!! Michael Are you ready to commit wildlife genocide? Because that is what will happen if you allow wolves to be delisted! Wolves initiate the feeding cycle for countless other wild animals. In essence, they ARE the Law Of Nature. Without the proper balance in nature, we doom more than just the ecosystem! Didn’t we learn enough from the last time they were delisted? Apparently not! But like so many other corrupt agencies and/or people do, you are prone to repeating the same mistakes. Last I knew, the Government is formed by the people for the people, and we are the people. The land is PUBLIC land unless it has been purchased! Isn’t wildlife part of said land, via habitat? Thus doesn’t that make wildlife our wildlife? So, what other personal ulterior motives and personal vendettas does you really serve? Isn’t that in fact a form of abuse in itself? Are you more worried about your image than serving proper justice for wildlife in general? That’s what it sounds like to many of us tax paying citizens! You turn everything negative into another reason to control wildlife, including turning your backs on crimes committed against nature! You tend to cater to ranchers more often than not. While nobody wants to see livestock killed by predators, it is going to happen due to the Law of Nature. Besides, do you not already have a compensation plan in place to reimburse those who lose livestock to wolves, if proven? Do you not sponsor culls throughout the year? How do energy bills or spending bills have anything to do with wildlife? In fact, you would be considered heroes to incorporate your so called energy spending bills to BENEFIT wildlife in general, rather than destroying more and more wildlife habitat along the way! We are tax payers are we not? Do we not have a say in the matter? Does that give you the right to use our hard earned income to fund these bogus practices for no viable reasons, other than make you look larger than life, and quite possibly fatten your wallets along the way? It’s the same old story every time – the faces may change but the corruption in the Government stays the same! We’re tired of all the lies and all the bullshit. It’s time we took our wildlife back and we will not rest until proper justice is served! You approved a rather large budget (1.5 billion) but at what cost? You still feel the need to interfere with the progress made by so many people who have dedicated their lives to ensure wolves survival? Not only that but these asinine decisions will open the door for poaching, trapping, killing (legal or illegal) of other predators! You claim it’s predator management. You can use any excuse or means to justify it anyway you want, but the results are still the same! True conservation means to preserve, to save, to re-introduce! That goes for the habitat too. You are sadly mistaken if you call this wildlife conservation management! Wildlife deserves protection because they don’t understand the concept of always being blamed for just being a wild animal! Besides, many encounters could have been avoided had proper measures and precautions had been used, or if non lethal methods were used as well. As a result, when you condemn an entire species to extinction, the ripple effect it creates and causes carries much bigger repercussions than expected, and can have more devastating results than positive outcomes. Look at the pattern and tell me it isn’t personal agendas at work! Democrats voted for the bill, republicans voted against it, with a few from each party doing the opposite. President Obama has vowed to veto the Bill if necessary, and the Democrats have vowed to overrule it if he does! It doesn’t seem logical or ethical at all, does it? Besides you manage to screw everything else up, and don’t we have real issues to worry about instead? Just as we have our problems, wildlife has their own world to deal with, let alone humans to add more problems to their plate or complicate things as they stand now! A group or an agency is ONLY as good as it’s leader! And the USFWS is as corrupt as they come. Your agency has been exposed countless times for numerous atrocities you have either sponsored or allowed to happen, and your failure to serve proper justice for our wildlife when it is warranted, instead you turn their back on them when they need us the most! It’s well documented but many sheep just don’t get it! The main culprit is Dan Ashe, and we will not rest until he is out of office! Besides, why would we want anybody who is against wildlife rights to be in office of an agency that is responsible for their well being? Who are you to play GOD with our wildlife? Douglas
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Please correct me if I am wrong – isn’t the purpose of USFWS agencies to preserve and protect our wildlife, not to destroy it? Why eradicate an entire species when there are MANY other predators that are just as responsible? Without wolves to initiate the feeding cycle, countless other wildlife will die off – including but not limited to: eagles, hawks, foxes, coyotes, bears, panthers, ravens, and even insects just to name a few! Are you really ready to commit wildlife genocide?
So let me get this straight – you are saying the use of Judas wolves, aerial hunting, baiting wolves, poisoning wolves, illegal hunting and trapping of wolves, using dogs to hunt wolves is all part of conservation? Sorry but I’ve spent too many summers at conservation camps, attended numerous conservation seminars over the years and that even I can tell you that this is not conservation at all, quite the opposite. Sounds more like desperation! Those actions will only lead to more illegal hunting/trapping/poaching wolves using any means necessary to kill wolves. The proof is already in the pudding! Also, why must hunters resort to high-powered rifles, using a lighter grained ammo, with high-tech scopes capable of shooting vast distances just to video the kill for the sole purpose of bragging rights on YouTube or Facebook? Where is the logic in that? They shoot animals not even moving, which in all reality is like cheating! Please explain the educational practices and benefits behind that theory? How can that even be considered conservation or wolf management? Last I knew, the Government is formed by the people for the people, and we are the people. The land is PUBLIC land unless it has been purchased! Isn’t wildlife is part of said land via habitat, thus doesn’t that make wildlife our wildlife? So, what other personal ulterior motives and personal vendettas does your agency serve? Isn’t that in fact a form of abuse in itself? Are you more worried about your image than serving proper justice for wildlife in general? That’s what it sounds like to many of us tax paying citizens! You turn everything negative into another reason to control wildlife, including turning your backs on crimes committed against nature! While nobody wants to see livestock killed by predators, it is going to happen due to the Law Of Nature. Besides, do you not already have a compensation plan in place to reimburse those who lose livestock to wolves, if proven? Do you not sponsor culls throughout the year? How does energy bills or spending bills have anything to do with wildlife? In fact, you would be considered heroes to incorporate your so-called energy spending bills to BENEFIT wildlife in general, rather than destroying more and more wildlife habitat along the way! We are tax payers are we not? Do we not have a say in the matter? Does that give you the right to use our hard-earned income to fund these bogus practices for no viable reasons, other than make you look larger than life, and quite possibly fatten your wallets along the way? It’s the same old story every time – the faces may change but the corruption in the Government stays the same! We’re tired of all the lies and all the bullshit. It’s time we took our country back and we will not rest until proper justice is served! You can use any excuse or means to justify it anyway you want, but the results are still the same! Conservation management means to preserve, to save, to re-introduce! That goes for the habitat too. You are sadly mistaken if you call this wildlife conservation management! Let’s look at some definitions based on conservation: Replenish: the act of restoring used or lost supply Protection: the action of protecting someone or something, or the state of being protected. To keep someone or something from harm. Habitat: the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Extinction: the state or process of a species, family, or larger group being or becoming extinct. Endangered: (of a species) seriously at risk of extinction. Threatened: having an uncertain chance of continued survival <a threatened species>; specifically; likely to become an endangered species Nowhere in those definitions do they mention eradicate any species for any reason. But these are NOT acts of conservation: Poaching: has traditionally been defined as the illegal hunting, killing, or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. Control: determine the behavior or supervise the running of. Managing: having executive or supervisory control or authority: Killing: an act of causing death, especially deliberately. Hunting: the activity of hunting wild animals or game, especially for food or sport. Trapping: catch (an animal) in a trap. You do so much other wonderful work for numerous animals, yet none of that matters when you kill wildlife for no true viable reason! There are MANY proven non-lethal ways of managing wildlife. Now let’s look at the Second Amendment – which too many people twist it around for their own benefit! The Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791. It reads: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” While I don’t intend to be negative about the second amendment, many people twist it from what it was actually intended for: the right to protect yourself. Nowhere in it does it mention the act of slaughtering an entire species. In fact it doesn’t even mention hunting either! Also, can you show me recent documented proof of a healthy wolf attacking a person? So again, correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t wolves and other apex predators meant to be wild? Along with that, aren’t other “wildlife” animals also meant to be wild? Do predators know the difference between wild prey and livestock? Weren’t predators present in most places before humans? Do we not intrude on their territory? How many species will starve without wolves to initiate the feeding cycle? Do they not symbolize freedom in America? Do they not constitute smaller predator control? Do they not generate income as tourists attractions? In 1926 the last Yellowstone wolf was killed, yet Yellowstone Park has reintroduced wolves once again, and already they face the same tyranny as before. In 1973 the endangered species act was finally enforced due to the outcry for support! But that didn’t stop wolves from being illegally hunted and/or slaughtered, thanks mostly to the many complaining ranchers. FOR NO VIABLE REASON I might add! Also, the numbers are almost similar to what they were in 1973! In North Carolina the red wolf was making a slow comeback until very recently when USFWS turned their backs on them! It is the exact same situation with Mexican wolves! The ordeals in Oregon, Montana and especially Idaho could have avoided their wolf culls simply by using PROVEN NON LETHAL techniques! But they chose not to! Wolves are born to hunt, it’s the law of nature but only 1 in 5 attempts is successful. Recent research is finding that many of the so-called “wolf kills” actually occurred AFTER the prey has already either died or become infected with 1 of countless illnesses! Elk and wildlife feeding lots are making wolf encounters more frequent than they normally would be. The last few supposed wolf kills occurred over a period of several days, not just a single day as originally reported. While nobody wants to see livestock killed by any predator, it will happen, and that’s the law of nature in action – only the strong survive! Besides, there is a compensation program set in place for livestock killed by wolves, is there not? However, there are MANY NUMEROUS crimes against wildlife which never receive due justice, primarily because feds basically just turn their backs on them and the situations! This has been well documented! Not only that but wolves also are the backbone of wildlife as most other animals that share their habitat depend on them for so much! What will happen to them through time? There are so many proven cost-effective and successfully used non lethal methods of controlling wolves and other predators. The only problem is not many people are aware of them or their quick answer is to kill them, problem solved! Along the way, countless accidents happen killing family dogs, hunting dogs and other wild predators. Speaking of “other predators”, what wild animal will be next on the hit list to blame ranchers misfortunes on and take up arms to eradicate them as well? What kind of legacy are we leaving for future generations? I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of having to find reasons or make excuses to explain why we are in the sorry shape we are in as it is, let alone having to deal with this kind of b/s. You seem to have no problem listening to ranchers complaints including quick responses, yet you tend to forget how much wolves contribute to the economy let alone the ecosystem. Wolves generate a lot of income as a sight-seeing attraction. Wolves also help keep the rodent populations lower than without wolves present. I am also getting extremely sick of hearing those that just don’t like wolves disrespecting them by taking videos of wolf hunts and/or kills for the sole reason of bragging rights on YouTube or Facebook, while you turn a deaf ear to those of us that respect wildlife. In closing, this goes for ALL predators – the corruption in most agencies like this favors the ranchers and our tax dollars are funding this, and our wildlife is suffering the consequences of it! So, who gives you the right to play God? Your actions must cease now before it’s too late! XFTLOWX |
Douglas
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