Because People in power are Stupid: was the eighth wolf fitted with a GPS collar to be shot
Those collars are great trophies.

If they were to put the collar on, or in their pocket after the kill, the gps readings would open a few eyes...
OMG!! It's at the mall!

jshine: So, we can kill these by the millions:
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...yet wolves are different somehow? Why? Whats the difference -- aside from how much wolves look like domestic pets.

You are lucky trolls are on the endangered species list.

Vegan Meat Popsicle: / I'm just pissy because some fat, illiterate drunk was hunting in off-limits property behind my house a few years ago and put a bullet in my deck

Maybe he went to City Hall and got a Permit for a deck...

I think we should kill them all. They ravage livestock, are a danger to pets and smaller people, and devastate population of slower maturing animals like elk. We almost completely wiped them out, deliberately, and a hundred years later some moon headed pollyannas decided that we need them back. Ridiculous.

Keizer_Ghidorah: HeadLever: Keizer_Ghidorah: Smegg
I can't even think of a response to something this stupid.

Actually, this point is legitimate. Here in Idaho, wolves are one of the main causes of declines in big game populations to the point where hunting tags were drastically reduced and in some cases, completley eliminated from certain areas. This not only pisses off hunters, but this also reduces revenue to the state which typically spends this money on wildlife and conservation type programs.

Probably because of the limited space for wildlife to live in as well as humans hunting the elk as well. You can't blame the wolves for doing what they've been doing for a few million years.

Not sure if you are familiar with the Western US or not, but most of the land out here is public (no development). The county I grew up in is about the size of Connecticut, has a population of about 400 people and is 97% owned by the federal government. the space that wildlife has here is not really 'limited' in any sense of the word.

And no one is blaming the wolves for doing what they do. Thier population just need to be managed as with any other big game animal species.

HeadLever: Keizer_Ghidorah: Smegg
I can't even think of a response to something this stupid.

Actually, this point is legitimate. Here in Idaho, wolves are one of the main causes of declines in big game populations to the point where hunting tags were drastically reduced and in some cases, completley eliminated from certain areas. This not only pisses off hunters, but this also reduces revenue to the state which typically spends this money on wildlife and conservation type programs.

Probably because of the limited space for wildlife to live in as well as humans hunting the elk as well. You can't blame the wolves for doing what they've been doing for a few million years.

browntimmy: HeadLever: browntimmy: You get zero manliness points for hunting when the only danger is you being an idiot with your weapon.

Being sucessfull is all we need for us to be happy with the results. Arbitrary points given by anonomyous posters on a social website is not why folks hunt. You can take your manliness points and keep them in your mom's basement for all we care.

How about running over a squirrel with your car? Fun activity? Do you make a trophy out of it?

Squirrels go in stew. Raccoons are the ones that get made into trophies:

HeadLever: grasse: Reintroduced after an aggressor took them all out... Oh wait that aggressor was humans

Yep, the old time ranchers knew how devistating they could be on livestock.

So they chose extincting a species over building better fences... Smart people! The wolves totally deserved it!

Litig8r: grasse: Well you did choose to live in a wolf populated area, it's not like they were put there after you moved.

I feel the same about women who go to bars and then complain about being raped.

I was not aware that bars stood for Brick Abodes Rapists Stay... but if it did, then yes I would see your point.

Personally, she wasn't my favorite. I didn't vote for her - I thought her song was off key and her dance moves kinda pedestrian.

Gunny Highway: jshine: So, we can kill these by the millions:
[www.saawinternational.org image 425x319]

...yet wolves are different somehow? Why? Whats the difference -- aside from how much wolves look like domestic pets.

You are lucky trolls are on the endangered species list.

They still need to be managed.

Who the fark shoots a wolf?!? Why not go twist a bald eagle's head off while you're at it?

Suck it wolf