Wolf controversy continues

http://www.thewildlifenews.com/…/kathie-lynch-yellowstone-…/

Here is a look at how the one-species conservationists are reveling at the wolf introduction in Yellowstone National Park, still praising it as a “conservation success story”. That introduction of non-native Canadian wolves began on January 12, 1995 - 20 years ago this week.

Note as you read this story how it fails to mention that the great elk herds that were within the park have been whittled down to only about 20-percent of what they once were ... or how those wolves have spread parasites and diseases which have been contracted by the wild ungulates of Yellowstone, such as the spread of hydatid disease due to the Echinococcus granulosus tapeworm (which is carried by upwards of 80-percent of all wolves in the Northern Rockies). “The Wildlife News” report at this link also fails to share that the park’s wolves have been hard hit by mange and distemper, which has reduced wolf numbers to about half of what they were just 6 or 7 years ago.

About the only thing they’ve gotten right is how Yellowstone’s wolves are now killing each other. And that’s due to the elevated competition for the drastically reduced prey populations of the park...and of the country surrounding the park. And that competition will only continue to heighten...to the point where wolves won’t be able to subsist inside Yellowstone’s boundaries. The idiocy of psuedo conservationists, such as those who frequent “The Wildlife News”, is that their so-called “natural balance” will eventually turn YYellowstoneNational Park into a total wildlife wasteland...where even the wolves cannot exist.

Unfortunately, the same exact thing is happening inside the several dozen National Wilderness Areas within Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. These areas are so remote and inaccessible, they’ve become nothing more than core predator areas, where wolves can breed and raise young...which will readily leave those areas to move right down into human inhabited valleys and ranch lands.

            Toby Bridges

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