Federal judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado
Federal judge denies cattle industry’s request to temporarily halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado
A federal judge has denied a request to halt the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado just days away from the predators’ release.
A federal judge has allowed the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado to move forward in the coming days by denying a request Friday from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the predators’ release.
While the lawsuit will continue, Judge Regina Rodriguez’s ruling allows Colorado to proceed with its plan to find, capture and transport up to 10 wolves from Oregon starting Sunday. The deadline to put paws on the ground under the voter-approved initiative is December 31.
The lawsuit from the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and The Gunnison County Stockgrowers’ Association alleges that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately review the potential impacts of Colorado’s plan to release up to 50 wolves in Colorado over the next several years.
Wolves need to be reintroduced in many parts of the U.S. Here in Indiana, hunters have to keep the deer population down and even they can't do a good enough job. Other states have even bigger problems with feral hogs. Wolves are essentially no threat to humans but there's always scaremongering.
Meanwhile, these ranchers are throwing a shit fit about TEN WOLVES.
Wanna bet they also QQ about deer and/or hogs running amok?
Probably not because those won't affect their bottom line as much. Wolves harass cattle herds and run the weight off of them, requiring more workers to protect the herd and also reducing sale price. With wolves reintroduced, the price of beef will increase.
That being said, we definitely still should reintroduce them, they have so many positive effects on the environment. Even if not reintroduced, it won't be long before the wolves in Wyoming start making their way down anyway.
Will wolves control feral hog populations?
https://feralhogs.extension.org/natural-predators-of-feral-hogs/
Red wolves were. Grey wolves probably would be.
I’m so tired of the cattle industry in Colorado. From their extreme water usage in a water strapped state, to their entitlement to using federal land to graze, to their insistence on killing the wolves that the state voted to introduce, to their election of Lauren Boebert. It is selfish bullshit after selfish bullshit and enough is enough
There are very few people in this world who feel as entitled as rural westerners do. Their default position is that the land is theirs to do whatever they want on and the rest of us can fuck right off. Nevermind that their precious "way of life" is barely a century old and rides upon the back of Native American genocide and massive public subsidies and corruption together with the destruction of entire ecosystems and vast swathes of public land. While a lot of them are perfectly nice people otherwise, ranchers are among the worst offenders in this sense.
Those cattle mongers should see the doctor about the state of their gut fauna (relevant XKCD)
XKCD is always right on the money.
The deadline to put paws on the ground
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