Colorado wolf reintroduction

[stumblinhorse]

Around me there is already more wolf kills than lions. There was already 20 cattle/4 dog/3 sheep killed within 30 miles of me, before the release. The neighbor 2 properties down lost a llama to a lion. That is the only lion attack I have heard of around here. But we have so so many deer and antelope, the lions don’t need to risk killing livestock. And we have a lot of lions. They do well here.

 

[Rockbadchild]

A pretty interesting podcast, lots of miss conception debunked in there

 

[etpm]

A pretty interesting podcast, lots of miss conception debunked in there

I had to quit watching Joe Rogan. He just spouted too much BS that was easily checked and proved false. He thinks his opinion is fact in too many cases.
Eric

 

[Rockbadchild]

I had to quit watching Joe Rogan. He just spouted too much BS that was easily checked and proved false. He thinks his opinion is fact in too many cases.
Eric

I havent been watching as much anymore, i’ve been watching lot more of Shawn Ryan show then him lately but Joe still put up some interesting one here and there she didn’t let him get away with much in this one …

 

[oosik]

My 80 acres is very remote. Mile off the county road - twelve miles from our small college town. It's classified as Open Range land.

We have all the big, normal carnivores here. Coyote, wolf, black bear and cougar. Of course, skunk, badger, racoon and porcupine also. I can't let Brownie( Cocker Spaniel) out on his own. I'm always with him when outside. Brownie is an innocent.

Twenty two years ago I got two Blue Healers. Good friend and his wife were going back to the Philippines. These two dogs would not fare well there.

These dogs DID NOT like coming in the house. They would lay out on the porch in the winters worse snow storm and not mind it one bit.

They developed a rather unique "habit". At night they would range out and hunt coyotes. One night - terrible howling, barking, growling in the yard. Got up and looked out the kitchen window. Not about to charge out there with all this goings on and not seeing it first.

There in plain view of the yard light. These two had drug a coyote back into the yard.
They proceeded to kill the coyote and began to eat its innards.

Spicy German hot dogs saved the day. A favorite snack of the two healers. Got the healers off the coyote and the coyote into the bucket of the tractor. Next day I burned the coyote down to mere ash.

Lord know how much of this went on. Out where we could not see or hear.

 

[scootr]

I had a german shepard that was hell on coyotes in the desert. One night I finally got out of bed to investigate after an hour of listening to the absolute chaos going on outside. When I shined a light to my surprise she was barreling around a boulder barking and snapping at two poor coyotes stuck on top of the rock.

 

[lincmercguy]

They shoild have been introduced in the counties that voted for it instead of the counties that voted against it.

 

[walhondingMF]

I live rural, have always lived rural, and will always live rural. I understand the argument, about many issues actually, about the masses in the urban areas making decisions for us in the country. I also have to remember this though. A good deal of our country is public land, which means the people in the city are owners of that land as well. Because the West has so much public land, the public landowner vs private landowner is far more common in the western part of the country.
Diane Boyd is published and her books are great reads if you like he topic. She's probably considered the national expert on wolves and has a fantastic perspective on the issue. Her background started in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Wolves were never completely eradicated from some of this area. She became a bit of an expert on not so much dealing with the wolves, but at dealing with people when it came to wolves.
If you don't want to listen to her on rogan, look into the meateater podcast. She has been on there a few times.

 

[deserteagle71]

A good deal of our country is public land, which means the people in the city are owners of that land as well.

But the city dwellers are "absentee" owners. And they make ill-informed, emotion-based instead of fact based, decisions about the land surrounding my property (BLM land on two sides) that doesn't affect them at all. But it sure affects me!

 

[walhondingMF]

But the city dwellers are "absentee" owners. And they make ill-informed, emotion-based instead of fact based, decisions about the land surrounding my property (BLM land on two sides) that doesn't affect them at all. But it sure affects me!

Great point that I do not disagree with. However, is it possible that BLM land, which you have access to could be privately owned by someone who would not give you access to it? Public land is a unique thing to our country, and one of the best things about it. Unfortunately, we need the money from those in the city to help afford it.