Somewhere on a remote mountainside in Colorado’s Rockies, a latch flipped on a crate and a wolf bounded out, heading toward the tree line. Then it stopped short.
For a moment, the young female looked back at its audience of roughly 45 people who stared on in reverential silence. Then she disappeared into the forest.
She was one of five gray wolves wildlife officials released in a remote part of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains on Monday to kick off a voter-approved reintroduction program that was embraced in the state’s mostly Democratic urban corridor but staunchly opposed in conservative rural areas where ranchers worry about attacks on livestock.
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It marked the start of the most ambitious wolf reintroduction effort in the U.S. in almost three decades and a sharp departure from aggressive efforts by Republican-led states to cull wolf packs. A judge on Friday night had denied a request from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay to the release.
I can’t help but laugh because apparently Democrats have voted to release large predators into the parts of the state where Republicans live.
There’s risks to choosing to live away from other humans. North America is rampant with large predators: wolves, bears and lions. Humans banned together millennia ago for such protection. If you wish to live a dozen miles from more than 2 other people, that’s a risk you take.
Reintroducing wolves is fixing the mistake we made in killing them all; which is causing more problems than it solved.
Why do you think we killed them all? So people didn’t have to take that risk?
Edit: I was wrong about ranchers getting a lot of subsidies, it’s the crop farmers that receive a disproportionate amount of subsidies.
https://thecowdocs.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/do-cattle-ranchers-and-farmers-get-government-subsidies/
Be prepared to see a lot of trash people claiming wolves killed their livestock because there is a government subsidy fund for livestock killed by wolves but not other predators like bears, cougars, coyotes etc. instated when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone
From this book: The Killing of Wolf number Ten
Why is there a subsidy for that? Ranchers should be able to protect their herds without wantonly murdering wolves. Fuck, get some drones with pepper spray or stun guns. The future is now cowboys!
The future is now cowboys!
But I don’t WANT the future to be cowboys now! sulks
I take it you have no idea what ranching is like.
Been to multiple actually. Commercial and private.
Also read the edit
Then you should know that cow calf operations are price takers not price makers. So as you pay more for beef at the store the ranchers are getting less per pound.
Cow calf operations are the only independent part of animal production left in the United States.
POLITICS EVERYWHERE WOOOOOOO!
Woooooooooooooooooooooo!
Finally someone is doing something about the terrible vampire problem out there.
Inside U-Haul there are 5 wolves
Underrated joke of all time
Sounds like those guys need to get some German Shepherds. Time to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.
I’d be more excited about this id I wasn’t 100% sure people will be shooting these wolves.
I mean it worked in Wyoming didn’t it?
Woooves come and the trump goes out, wooves come in and the trump goes out - 🐺👏👏👏
North Carolina has tried to save the red wolves and hunters and farmers routinely kill them. They will be extinct despite the conservation efforts unfortunately.