UTAH WANTS IN ON WOLF SLAUGHTER
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His bloodlust piqued by the slaughter of hundreds of wolves in Idaho and Montana, Senator Allen Christensen is seeking to pass a law requiring the killing of all wolves that migrate into Utah. Backed by a posse of hunters and cattlemen, Christensen thinks wolves are out of control in Utah (that would be all two that have entered the state since 1975).
The confused Christensen says his bill is “good for wildlife” but under questioning admitted that “wolves are wildlife, too” (very good, Senator!). Apparently referring to Utah, Christensen declared: “We would like them not to immigrate into here.”
Senator Christensen, please check your grammar, logic, and basic legal knowledge. While gray wolves in Idaho, Montana, and the northeast corner of Utah were prematurely removed from the endangered species list last year, they’re federally protected in most of Utah — and the Center for Biological Diversity is now in court to earn back federal protections for all northern Rockies gray wolves, including those in Utah, as we’ve already done for Great Lakes gray wolves. With the wolves federally protected, any state bill to exterminate them would crash into the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
UPDATE: This week, Utah’s top wildlife official, Jim Karpowitz, came out against the bill, saying it would force him to go to federal prison for killing wolves or to state prison for not killing wolves.
Read more on Christensen’s bill and Karpowitz’s opposition.
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@MadMike,
what the hell?
They really ought to keep those together, they were written across quite a few years but again, the worlds merge in “Cites of the Plains”
That picture didn’t make me cry – it pissed me slam right off. I personally don’t understand what thrill it is to shoot an animal with a gun. Occasionally, it is warranted – a rabid animal is a danger to everything around it and is in extreme pain. That’s about it. I say if they want to hunt, let them man up and hunt with their bare f’ing hands, at least give the animal a level playing field.
Hill, my (((H))) I was very reluctant to post it. I would LOVE for it to go viral. Viral…VIRAL…VIRAL!!!
Oso I hear you. The Native Americans revered the wolf. The Invader Americans want to destroy it. Sad! Sad! Sad!
That picture made me cry.
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Mike,
this picture,it makes me want to slit their damn throats and it also makes me want to cry.To see these assholes, and their asshole kids smiling like there aren’t a bunch of beautiful animals slaughtered right in front of them;beautiful dead wolves and it pleases them.
I don’t know what to say. It’s awful.
SJ: The Crossing is not available on Kindle, yet. I had forgotten that he also wrote No Country for Old Men….
They must be. He’s very deservedly popular these days.
-SJ
Thanks SJ. I am hoping these books are Kindle Ready. I love my KINDLE!! 🙂
Gwen I know what you are saying. There is a relatively stable coyote population here in South Georgia, despite the fact that Georgia has open season on them, and a half dozen other species like beavers, crows, and etc. They used to have a bounty on them but they had to lift that after the public outcry embarrassed the most red of the red necks..
Bill!! Your avatar came through! Fantastic…and you are right. We have been killing since we first stood upright.
“over-react”
@ Gwendolyn,
I’m glad their graduating from peeing to biting hasn’t made anybody overact here… yet.
Watkins Glen?
I love that town, There’s a race track there that I ran with my friend’s Suzuki GSXR back in 1996. Awesome place.
-SJ
@Mad Mike,
It’s actually part of what’s now generally referred to as his “Trilogy.”
“All the Pretty Horses”/”The Crossing”/”Cities of the Plains”
-I’d just get the the whole thing, it’s cheap, get the hard cover cause you’ll beat the hell out of it. It tracks the lives of two young men separately who finally meet in the third novel. It’s a gratifying read, but it will break your damn heart. Made me weep for days when I first read it years ago. They are essentially cowboy stories at early to mid 20th century, although the last book ends in 2002, (it was written in 1996 I think)
I also recommend “Blood Meridian” if you don’t know it.
Most violent thing I’ve ever read by anybody.
-SJ
I don’t agree with culling back any population. Killing wild life for anything less than life threat or life sustenance just wrong. This is heartbreaking.
SJ – I lived in Watkins Glen when I attended Cornell, like a thousand years ago… and the coyotes used to pee on the side of my house in the winter… right in front of me!!! Yes, coyote medicine here. I actually like coyotes. I know they can be troublesome and dangerous … still, I really have a sympatico with them.
I hate to see pictures like that, they all look so proud. Wolves are pretty much wiped out in western Europe, there might be a few in northern Spain, maybe.
Humans are not content to just slaughter each other they also want to slaughter all other species as well.
I read McCarthy’s The Road and loved it. I didn’t know about The Crossing but I am headed to Amazon right now. Second point: We almost drove the wolves to extinction once and it looks like we are hell bent on doing it again. The Obama administration chose not to overturn the Bush ruling that removed them from the endangered list. I cannot stand that fucking Salazar!!
Yeah, this is horse shit.
Two days ago, Coyotes attacked a pitbull, a woman, and another woman in separate incidents in and around lower Weschester, New York (We actually have a “seasonal” Coyote problem in upstate New York, and in New Jersey believe it or not.) Thankfully as soon as some local politicians tried to seize the moment and propose some anti-Coyote act or something similarly retarded, they were shouted down, not just by local citizenry, but by the victims themselves… -well not the pitbull, I think he’s still fucked off about the whole thing.
Save the wolves. Everybody in Utah should read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Crossing” and settle down.
-SJ