SNARES HAVE TO GO!
Wednesday, December 02, 2015 2:27pm
“An 89-pound female gray wolf was killed in Utah last month in a strangulation snare intended for a coyote.
She was the second wolf killed in Utah in less than a year and the third in the southern Rockies.
The most recent killing occurred around Nov. 7 in northeastern Utah, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The previous wolf killed in Utah was shot on Dec. 28, 2014 by a hunter who claimed he thought it was a coyote. That wolf, nicknamed Echo, had been the first wolf documented at the Grand Canyon since the 1940s.
The third wolf was killed in Colorado on April 29 by a hunter making the same claim. All three wolves had migrated south from the Northern Rockies wolf population found in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
An analysis conducted by the Center for Biological Diversity found that since 1981, more than 50 dispersing wolves have been killed as they tried to expand across a greater portion of their natural range.
“Utah should end its war on coyotes, which has had a deadly effect on at least two wolves that have wandered into the state,” said Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity. “The loss of these three wolves is yet another grim reminder that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to do more to protect dispersing wolves and foster further wolf recovery.”
Utah offers a bounty on coyotes, reportedly to increase the number of deer. Wildlife officials point to habitat loss, drought, and less forage as probable reasons for decline in deer populations.
The most recent wolf killing occurred in a portion of Utah in which wolves were stripped of their Endangered Species Act protections through a rider on a must-pass budget bill in 2011.
“Ongoing persecution of wolves is one of the prime reasons they continue to need Endangered Species Act protections in Utah and across the country,” Robinson said.
The Center for Biological Diversity points to scientific studies show that wolves benefit their ecosystems.
For example, wolves keep elk moving, thereby limiting browsing along streams and allowing saplings to mature into trees that provide shade for fish habitat and birds.
Wolves provide carrion for scavenging animals such as eagles, wolverines and weasels. Wolves benefit pronghorn through killing coyotes, which unlike wolves, inordinately focus their hunting on pronghorn fawns.”
**Special thanks to “The Journal” for providing this information (http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20151202/NEWS01/151209984/Another-wolf-killed-in-Utah)
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Its a shame this kind of thing keeps happening, its the same old nonsense, any creature that is a predator is looked on as an enemy. We have the same attitude in the U.K. with foxes, they are looked upon as something spawned out of hell by certain elements in our society It will take a long time to change attitudes.
RIP ❤ 😥
Snares and Traps are Outlawed in 86 CIVILIZED Countries! America is behind them all! Both Wolves And coyotes are essential to a Healthy ecosystem! If we kill them all, we will have a overabudance of rodents and disease!
Traps and snares should be outlawed, too many accidental deaths not intended . Pets, eagles, even children are among the unwanted victims.
It was a wolf, whats the big deal. Just think of all the other wildlife that was saved.
Tom, the problem is the manner in which this animal, among many others, had to die. I could easily say that a bald eagle got caught in a trap, died, but it saved a few rodents by doing so.
Then how do we control the vermin (wolves)?
Tom, why would you want to control wolves? Have you heard of non-lethal and pro-active measures instead of simply killing them all? There are several…can you name them or even tried them if you’re in wolf country? I’ve come across many people with your one-sided mindset. If killing is your only talent, then I’m not sure why you are even on this website. This is about wolf preservation, not extermination.
The more wolves killed, by any means is always good news.