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BILLINGS, Mont. -- Tens of thousands of wolves would be returned to the woods of New England, the mountains of California, the wide open Great Plains and the desert West under a scientific petition filed Tuesday with the federal government.

The predators were poisoned and trapped to near-extermination in the United States last century, but have since clawed their way back to some of the most remote wilderness in the lower 48 states.

That recovery was boosted in the 1990s by the reintroduction of 66 wolves in Idaho and Yellowstone National Park. Yet as those first packs have flourished, increased livestock killings and declining big game herds have drawn sharp backlash from ranchers, hunters and officials in the Northern Rockies.

But biologists with the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity want to expand that recovery across the country. A few isolated pockets of wolves, they say, are not enough.

"If the gray wolf is listed as endangered, it should be recovered in all significant portions of its range, not just fragments," said Michael Robinson, one of the petition's authors. He said the animals occupy just 5 percent of their historic range in the lower 48 states.



"Oh, give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
And cattle and sheep play all day!"

Yeah, I'm cool with flooding the flyover states with wolves. It gets their populations up, makes us look like we care as a country, and only affects a couple of thousand people out in remote areas that nobody cares about.

WIN!!!

Just keep them west of say, Maryland, and I'm good with it.

93henfan wrote:Yeah, I'm cool with flooding the flyover states with wolves. It gets their populations up, makes us look like we care as a country, and only affects a couple of thousand people out in remote areas that nobody cares about.

WIN!!!

Just keep them west of say, Maryland, and I'm good with it.

We got coyotes in Baltimore city!

This is what every citizen of my state wants, wolves AND griz returned to their entire original range, all of it.

93henfan wrote:Yeah, I'm cool with flooding the flyover states with wolves. It gets their populations up, makes us look like we care as a country, and only affects a couple of thousand people out in remote areas that nobody cares about.

WIN!!!

Just keep them west of say, Maryland, and I'm good with it.

Shit, they'd be a great way to keep the heroin addict population in check over there.

Wedgebuster wrote:This is what every citizen of my state wants, wolves AND griz returned to their entire original range, all of it.

That would be fine. The Elk they brought back to the Smokies don't have a natural predator.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

This photo was taken at the Red Flag Tailgate Saturday afternoon after the App St/ GSU game upon my breaking out the top shelf margueritas.

From left-right: Blueballs, Baldy, Ivytalk, EagleGus2, T-Dog, GreatAppSt

There were originally only 1500 wolves in Minnesota, now the numbers have doubled with the introduction of man to Minnesota.

Gil Dobie wrote:There were originally only 1500 wolves in Minnesota, now the numbers have doubled with the introduction of man to Minnesota.

You say it like it's a bad thing, Gilmond. Where you there with Father Hennepin to count them, you old buzzard?

I recently saw a PBS documentary about historic efforts to eradicate wolves. It led to horrendous deforestation, particularly along streams. The re-introduction of wolves to these areas has started a flora comeback.

SuperHornet wrote:I recently saw a PBS documentary about historic efforts to eradicate wolves. It led to horrendous deforestation, particularly along streams. The re-introduction of wolves to these areas has started a flora comeback.

That's cuz of the wolf poop.

bandl wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:I recently saw a PBS documentary about historic efforts to eradicate wolves. It led to horrendous deforestation, particularly along streams. The re-introduction of wolves to these areas has started a flora comeback.

That's cuz of the wolf poop.

Actually, removing the wolves led to overpopulation of their natural prey, which further led to over-grazing and near-destruction of the watershed.

SuperHornet wrote:

bandl wrote: That's cuz of the wolf poop.

Actually, removing the wolves led to overpopulation of their natural prey, which further led to over-grazing and near-destruction of the watershed.

No. It's becuz of the poop.

bandl wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:


Actually, removing the wolves led to overpopulation of their natural prey, which further led to over-grazing and near-destruction of the watershed.

No. It's becuz of the poop.

OK. I'll take your word for it.

SuperHornet wrote:

bandl wrote: No. It's becuz of the poop.

OK. I'll take your word for it.

too far?

bandl wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:I recently saw a PBS documentary about historic efforts to eradicate wolves. It led to horrendous deforestation, particularly along streams. The re-introduction of wolves to these areas has started a flora comeback.

That's cuz of the wolf poop.

Wolves are into instant weight-loss too.

bandl wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:

OK. I'll take your word for it.

too far?

Not far enough. In the words of the immortal Grizo, I'd like to get a look at those puppies uncaged!

Grizalltheway wrote:

93henfan wrote:Yeah, I'm cool with flooding the flyover states with wolves. It gets their populations up, makes us look like we care as a country, and only affects a couple of thousand people out in remote areas that nobody cares about.

WIN!!!

Just keep them west of say, Maryland, and I'm good with it.

Shit, they'd be a great way to keep the heroin addict population in check over there.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

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