Wolves to the Slaughter

ABQjournal NM: Wolf Killed for Depredations, By Rene Romo, Journal Southern Bureau

If we trapped, we may have gotten the male, which may have caused the female to move the pups,” Slown said in an e-mail. “This way the male will take over the pups’ care.”

At least four pups have been observed in AF924’s litter, Slown said. Federal officials will provide supplemental food, such as elk roadkill, to improve the wolf pups’ chances of surviving with only one parent.

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/576369nm07-06-07.htm

Aw, don’t those officials sound so damn caring and helpful? Except that their help comes after they deliberately slaughtered a mother with offspring.

The wolf reintroduction program is an absolute disaster and horrifically inhumane. No more wolves should be killed FOR ANY REASON short of an eye witness to wolves killing PEOPLE (won’t every happen). There are enough cows in the world to feed every wolf with plenty left over for people.

It is time to take the public lands back from the ranchers who believe they own those lands and their own profit is the only use for them. If ranchers can’t cope with protecting their cattle and can’t be satisfied by the money wolf supporters pay them, then they should move to town.

A female Mexican gray wolf released into the Gila Wilderness in late April was shot and killed Thursday by a federal agent due to repeated livestock depredation.

The alpha female of the Durango pack, designated AF924, was released into the wild with her mate on April 25, and within a short time she whelped a litter of pups. …

The Durango pack alpha female was the third wolf killed by federal officials for livestock depredation this year in the recovery area of southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico, said Elizabeth Slown, spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

An entire pack— the Saddle pack with an adult male and female and seven pups— was trapped and removed from the wild in early April. Only four breeding pairs remain in the wild.

Slown said federal officials chose to kill AF924, rather than remove her from the wild for captive breeding, because trapping presented difficulties. …

“If they (Fish and Wildlife) had removed her like we asked them to three weeks ago, that wouldn’t have happened,” Catron County Manager Bill Aymar said Thursday of the slaying of the wolf.

It’s a topsy-turvy world when a Catron County official sounds like a humanitarian. This program is an appalling travesty managed by incompetents serving selfish public lands freeloaders. STOP SLAUGHTERING WOLVES! Cows are born to slaughter. mjh