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What a great headline! I hope there is no limit on license.





AP/Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

This 2004 photograph provided by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shows an adult male wolf from the Lazy Creek pack north of Whitefish, Mont.

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite recent court actions restoring the animal's endangered status across most of the country.

Various proposals would gas pups in their dens, surgically sterilize adult wolves and allow "conservation" hunts to drive down the predators' numbers.

Once exterminated across most of the West, wolves made a remarkable comeback in recent decades. Yet as packs continue to multiply, their taste for livestock is stoking a backlash.

Wildlife officials say that without public wolf hunting, agencies need greater latitude to eliminate problem packs.

Wolf advocates say the response to marauding wolves is too heavy-handed.

I'd be remiss if I didn't hang the obligatory dead wuff pic.

That's the proper way to effectively rehabilitate a woof.

A different wuff going for a ride

This one seems very well behaved too. What's your secret, Steelhead?

Never had a problem with them actually, they are always just hanging around

Well at least the Fed's are finially admitting that they have turned into a problem.

Which is the exact reason that it should never have happened. The fact that there is ANY surprise only elevates the dumbphuctitude to a +P+ level.

There's a very useful tool for this surgical sterization:

As a sheep rancher I knew in Texas said to a PETA chick that recommended the same approach for the coyote problem 'Lady, I don't have a problem with the coyotes [bleep] my sheep to death'

Mighty good lookin' woofs ya got there. This one seems to enjoy "hangin' around."

What... BrentD's on vacation??

Must be. Him and DPole, BuzzH, 4100fps and a few more of those wolf lovers. Surely none of them have had a common sense attack.

Could it have finially dawned on a few people that the area will only support so many wolves? Above that number something has to be done.

And that's exactly their purpose. The 'something' that has to be done is to eliminate sport hunting so the wolves will have more game to eat. That's what this is all about.

Amen, and amen, and amen.

Can we repeal the Pittman Robertson Act, so our money isn't being thrown down the toilet by people who haven't contributed to it?