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Just another of a multitude of reasons I'm ashamed to be a Californian where this buffoon would be called a "rancher".



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WELCOMING WOLVES BACK TO CALIFORNIA � A RANCHER�S PERSPECTIVE


My husband and I live on the Bar C R ranch in Petaluma, CA where we run 300 mother cows using predator friendly ranching methods. I am also an advisory board member of Project Coyote � a coalition of educators, scientists and predator-friendly ranchers who promote coexistence between people and wildlife. As someone who understands the importance and benefits that predators provide to both ranch lands and entire eco systems, I want to see the wolf recover in California.

Last week I spoke at a rally in Sacramento in support of maintaining federal protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)- and against a proposal put forth by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist wolves from the ESA. To delist wolves would be wrong in so many ways; these important canids are keystone species and necessary for the balance and health of wild creatures and wild places. To delist would be unscientific, counter-productive, and financially wasteful.

As important apex predators, wolves need and deserve protection across their historical range. And as they try to expand into their former range, they run the gauntlet of misinformed management that results in their needless death. Wolves are unaware that they are crossing political boundaries where they will face ever-changing policies ranging from excessive killing to nearly full protection. If they are not consistently protected with sound conservation strategies now, how will delisting improve their peril?

Many management tools and techniques have proven successful in preventing attacks on livestock. Ranchers who use non-lethal methods report lower losses from predation than those who use lethal methods. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as well as USDA Wildlife Services and State Fish and Game departments can promote and improve non-lethal methods.

Unfortunately, old traditions�even bad ones�die hard, and some ranchers will continue to engage in their war on wildlife, however real or imagined the threats might be. Delisting wolves sends ranchers the message that it is unnecessary for them to have systems in place to help prevent wolves from attacking their livestock in the first place.

Why are Wildlife Services, State Fish and Game department and hunters allowed a functional open season on wolves? They are ready and willing to kill any wolf that is considered a problem. The truth is, the wolf really isn�t the problem- rather it�s lack of coordinated management where wolves cross from a protected area to a kill zone: lack of effective management that provides good healthy habitat with sufficient game populations that together deter wolves from killing livestock and; lack of cost-effective management that should promote and implement non-lethal control measures.

In the last two centuries, we have shot, gassed, poisoned, trapped, and snared: bison, prairie dogs, badgers, grizzly bears, coyotes, wolves, foxes, bobcats and more, all because they pose some sort of threat to livestock.

Meanwhile, the American public has started to see that these animals we are killing actually play a valuable role in our ecosystem, and maybe the slash- and- burn way we are �controlling� wildlife isn�t sustainable. We overharvest the natural prey for predators like wolves; we take away their habitat and replace it with domestic livestock with little protection. We create the very problem that wolves are being killed for.

Ranchers should welcome the wolves back into California, not only for the ecological benefits they bring but because wolves were in California long before our sheep and cattle, and if we force the public to choose, they might decide that wolves are a more valuable resource than our livestock. If we devoted just half the money, time and energy towards learning to coexist with wolves as we have towards our war against them, livestock producers could save countless lives on both sides of the fence, while also building a new reputation as an ecologically responsible industry that has learned from its mistakes. We all would win. And then and only then might you might consider delisting the wolf from the endangered species list.

I would bet that she has not been in the cattle business long. miles

A cow is a cow, a hiefer a heifer, and a bull a bull. A "mother cow" is a name used by a non-ranch owning individual.

I stopped reading after the first sentence, no reason to fill my head with more lies.

Cattle ranching in Petulama, CA..!!!

Just thinking about that makes me laugh...

Wait till this Hag has a calf half eaten by coyotes before it makes it out of the "mother cow", she'll be singing a different tune..

300 pair would be proper terminology.


"ranchers waging a war on wildlife......"



Last I heard rangeland is the only place left for wildlife. Subdivisions.....not so much.


The fact is most ranchers don't mind a healthy population of deer, elk, antelope. They don't compete for the same forage.


Wolves, much like free range bison, don't fit well in today's 'environment'.


Deer, elk, moose, etc., have enough to worry about without throwing wolves in the mix.

Yes to this^. I'll go one further. this is probably a gentleman's ranch owned by some Hollywood millionaire, or other green millionaire. Where the cows dye of old age, and have funerals. Biggest load of DADDY COW CHIT so far today.


Take care, Willie

"The truth is, the wolf really isn�t the problem- rather it�s lack of coordinated management where wolves cross from a protected area to a kill zone: lack of effective management that provides good healthy habitat with sufficient game populations that together deter wolves from killing livestock"

I'm really wondering how those boundaries between protected areas & kill zones are known to the woof so he doesn't leave those protected areas?

Also wondering how this idiot thinks sufficient game populations can be maintained to feed the woofs so they don't take livestock, when the woofs go through healthy game populations & wipe them out in a matter of a few short years.

This woman's "ranch" won't be healthy for long if they have protected wolves in their area.......they'll have a feast until their livestock is gone.

MM

This reminds me of a recent hunting trip I took near Hailey, ID. I started up a long single track road named Slaughterhouse Gulch. It was fenced on both sides and about every other post held a sign reading "Spirit Woman Ranch Keep Out". Well into the 2d mile of this, I came to the 'ranch'. It was a large cement slab with a very high dollar motor home parked on it and lots of flowers planted around it. There were no cattle, no barns, nothing other than an "Ive got mine, you keep out" attitude.

Hence all the non-existent urban wildlife issues...

"deter wolves from killing livestock"

Nothing deters wolves from killing livestock! They go for the easiest and most plentiful prey which will always be livestock.

if Californian's choose wolves over livestock, then let them dumbasses eat seaweed and everyone else refuse to ship any kind of meat to them.

Remember, this editorial was brought to you by the same idiots that ended mountain lion hunting in CA. Mountain lions now have found that humans and their pets are easy prey in CA.

I'm guessing she doesn't need the herd to pay it's own way - or (God Forbid) actually make money!

Mark

Wonder where our resident Wolf-humper is to explain this to us?

predator friendly ranching methods. Huh?

Me too. I wonder how many grazing units she has?

That was another good one.

only thing about her that is true is she's politicly correct ,but DUMBASS wrong, the first sentence set the tone and let us know how dumb she really is


norm

The only comment I can make about the "mother cows" is the letter was written for the average subburanite, they have never heard of the term "pair". But these are the type of people who can believe her propaganda. The wolf is to return to its historical range, how is it going to avoid the neighborhoods, subdivisions, golf courses,etc.and have the same population as in the past?

I googled her name and found her website. Its full of good information on how to live alongside predators.... grin

http://www.ranchersforwildlife.com/about-us.php

There's an ask questions section, where she'll work with you.


My question would be how would a wolf be used as a valuable resource in raising live stock?

I wonder what she really does for a living. Possibly an officer in PETA or other animal rights org.

Because Farley Mowat said they mostly eat mice. Mice are bad. Or are they? Maybe they're just as good as wolves!


So wait a second - shouldn't she also be promoting a rodent-friendly ranching methodology?

I suspect that would mean that I go out each week and shoot one or two cows in the head.

Then the wolves and coyotes would not have to expend so much energy to chase down their next meal.

The next step will be to teach the predators to vote the "Welfare Ticket" like the rest of the free loaders in this nation.