Catron County: Groups aim to overturn wolf law
The federal government has been reintroducing the wolves to the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area — 4.4 million acres of the Gila and Apache Sitgreaves national forests in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona plus Arizona’s 1.6 million-acre White Mountain Apache reservation, interspersed with private land and towns.
The program began March 29, 1998, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 11 wolves that were bred in captivity.
The recovery area had 59 wolves as of January 2007 [mjh: That’s +48 wolves in 9 years.], and that number has fluctuated with wolf deaths and removals and the births of pups, said Elizabeth Slown, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman in Albuquerque.
The agency conducts one count of wild wolves annually.
By the end of June, only 26 wolves could be located [mjh: Is that -33 wolves in 6 months? Something doesn’t add up, but anyway you count it, this program is a miserable failure in large part because of local opposition.] through radio telemetry, the lawsuit said.
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/65651.html
Oh please.
First point: There aren’t 33 wolves missing. Uncollard wolves are counted from planes – if you can’t see them the day you happen to fly over them, you can’t count them.
The wolf project people aren’t saying that 33 wolves are *missing*, so why are you implying that something bad has happened to any wolves?
Second point: Your article starts out with a statement that Catron County aims to overturn wolf law, by which I assume you mean ESA law. Do you hve any evidence for that or are you just trying to get people to read your blog by inflaming them with falsehoods?
How about instead of reporting unfounded rumors, you get the facts before you post these fictions? There is absolutely nothing going on in Catron County about overturning any ESA laws. Read the county ordinances for yourself, don’t simply believe other people’s propaganda.
First point: Most of this blog entry was a quote from the Santa Fe New Mexican, including the headline, “Catron County: Groups aim to overturn wolf law.” Complaints about that headline should be taken up with the editor. [mjh: my additions appear highlighted in yellow in brackets.] I see no mention of the ESA — I assume the law in question is the Catron County ordinance and the groups in the headline are environmental groups. Is your second point an example of an unfounded rumor or an inflaming falsehood?
Second point: So the numbers make sense to you? It all adds up? The goal was 100 wolves before now — are we halfway there yet?
Third point: Give me a link to the ordinance.
Finally, I got one person to read the blog by quoting the news. I gotta try some different bait. peace, mjh
Ah, Wilderness! » wildlife
http://www.mjhinton.com/wild/?cat=15
Link to Catron County ordinance: http://www.catroncounty.net/wolfhotline/assets/001-2007.htm
Thanks, cred. I find the language of this ordinance almost incomprehensible. I could not find the following on the Web: the Catron County Commission passed Resolution 036-2007, Emergency Wolf-human Incident Protective Measures (January 24, 2007). Send me a link if you find one. peace, mjh