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by Tom RemingtonMarch 18, 2010
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by Greg FarberMarch 16, 2010
Nice Dragon’s Triad Claw hand signal Ashley, how high into the Satanic Free Masonic cult are you ? We see all you Holly Wood Traitors Luciferian practices, and your days of deceiving the people are almost over.. Say hello to Satanist Henry Breakspears for me Ashley, you’re just another of his whores..
Video Blogger Rockholme sharing the truth of wolf destruction on elk herds in northern Idaho, and helping to expose the lies of DOW and Free Mason and satanist actress Ashley Judd.. She gets paid to deceive and pretend..
Man! The Wolves In Idaho Sure Are Big!
by Tom RemingtonFebruary 26, 2010
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Maine Guide Recalls Coyotes’ Destruction Of Deer. Calls For Action
by Tom RemingtonFebruary 24, 2010
*Updated with more Photos Below*
*Editor’s Note* This story was submitted by trapper and Maine Guide, David Tobey of Maine. It has been edited by Tom Remington. This story goes hand in hand with yesterday’s article on reinstating of the snaring program that Maine needs to help rebuild the lost deer population. Follow this link for that story.
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The morning started like many others. I was sitting, peering out the window hoping for a coyote to come to the bait. This cabin my grandfather bought in 1928 for the purpose of deer hunting, a cabin that has slept six generations of deer hunters in my family, along with countless numbers of others that rate the times spent here as being an important part of their lives. The cabin is in a County that boasted for years the highest deer kills in the state. An area where all hunting camps in the region have memories and pictures of full game poles. In a county where for years famous bounty hunters and trappers, such as Wilbur Day and George Magoon, kept the bear numbers very low. Then there were the famous bounty hunters for bobcats such as Ash Peasly and Lloyd Clark who along with many others kept the cats as scarce as hens’ teeth. This all contributed to the healthy deer herd.
At this time the IF&W [Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife] was made up of folks with practical experience who made their decisions based on common sense and input from the guides, trappers and woodsmen that lived their lives in and around the woods and on the waters of Maine. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of the past and how well things worked, and ask myself why can’t folks like those in the past surface and once again make it happen for the sake of the deer?
As I scanned the shore past the bait, barely seeing with the aid of binoculars in the predawn darkness, I saw a coyote come around the point headed for the bait. After sliding open the window and positioning the 22-250, I saw that the first coyote had behind, her mate. It took about twenty minutes for the the coyotes to make their way to the bait. The fifteen or so ravens now there acted as a fear eliminator. As the first coyote, the bigger, got within a few feet of the bait the birds flushed making the coyote freeze in its tracks.
With the gun in a vise, I gently squeezed the trigger dropping the coyote. To my surprise the other “yote” ran about fifty feet, turned around and waited for its mate to leave with him. Unlucky for him the next 55-grain bullet flattened him too.
Of course I was beside myself scoring a double on the wily coyotes, but was happier then a dog with two tails when I discovered the first one was a 43-pound female with half-inch long black teets, along with worn teeth. This told me she was an old breeder. Her and the 40-pound mate of her’s would not be raising 5-7 young this spring in the same deer fawning grounds they have in the past. As a passionate deer hunter, I had done my part to help the whitetail this morning.
After hanging the coyotes, I got the sled ready for a forty-mile loop to the west, checking beaver traps. This trip is the same course I’ve taken for 35 years either trapping beaver or snaring coyotes. Even though the ride gets old the signs and things you see are always interesting.
The first several miles never showed a coyote track in the fresh inch of snow, but now I was nearing Gassabias Lake where I’d found a deer kill the trip before. The “yote” tracks were becoming more numerous. This got my dander up because for years I was able to snare this area to protect a very large intact deer yard on this lake. I still remembered back in the early 80’s being deployed to this area by warden Pratt from Enfield. The first day there I found eight coyote-killed deer. I remembered how helpless I felt because I only had 10 snares with me to set because I already had twenty of my thirty snare limit out in other areas.
My thoughts changed as I turned off the logging road onto the old carry trail, the same carry trail that Manly Hardy used 150 years ago as he traveled the area. In the snow covered trail ahead of me showed the running tracks of a 170-pound buck. I knew this wasn’t good. After a few feet, two coyote tracks showed up following the deer. I knew the outcome. I’ve seen it a hundred times before.
Photo by Dave Tobey
I sped up following the chase hoping I could intervene and save the deer to live at least another day. The deer ran to the lake, crossed a cove and onto the east shore, bare of snow maybe where he could get better footing to fight off his attackers.
They drove him back onto the shore ice. I saw for the first time where they took him down. There was blood and hair; not a lot. I turned off the sled and walked the track knowing well what I was going to find. The buck had made his way to a granite boulder, big as a truck. The giant boulder had gathered enough sun to melt the shore ice out ten feet to where the water ran a depth of 12”-16”. Here the buck took his last and best stand.
The deer was laying in the water. He stood up as I neared. At first I thought maybe I got here in time but then I saw why the deer wasn’t leaving. The buck had used the vertical rock as protection for his back while he put the hooves to the coyotes while standing in water. The two coyotes though were relentless.
After almost tearing his scalp and hide from his face, they weakened the buck enough that he just laid down in the water while the two yearling 20-pound coyotes ate about ten pounds of meat from his hind quarters.
As I watched the deer lay back down never to get up again, I thought what a way to go. Lay in ice water and watch and feel two coyotes rip, tear, and eat one-third of your hind quarters. At first I was mad at myself. If only I was here sooner. If only I had trapped this area last fall I could have caught these two pup coyotes, that biologist think aren’t important enough to kill and believe pose no threat to a deer.
Then my anger turned to the IF&W. If Commissioner Martin, Governor Baldacci and others hadn’t ended the snaring program, I could have prevented this. I realized this area where I was standing is in the shadows of the Bangor office when the sun sets every day. How many times have I called there inviting biologist to accompany me on my trap line? And to just think, the large mammal group leader and state’s deer biologist are trapped in cubicles, not thirty miles away.
Folks, our government will never be the ones to save the whitetail deer in Maine. The sportsmen can fix this problem though; by supporting a private bounty system for coyotes; by donating and fund raising for conservation easements on Deer Wintering areas; and supporting the bill I will introduce next year to take the coyote off the list of fur bearers and allow year round trapping of coyotes.
David Tobey
Registered Maine Guide
P.S. Hope the following photos aren’t to offending or gross for the viewer, but this is happening every day and night in Maine.
Scalp almost torn from his head as he used his hooves to defend himself – David Tobey Photo
Imagine alive and standing after loosing this much flesh. Wish those that took my snares were there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – David Tobey Photo
Notice blood soaked water and hair – David Tobey Photo
Copy, Print, and post in every corner store in Maine. This is whitetail management at its best!!!!!!!!!!!!! – David Tobey Photo
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Maine Should Oppose Funding Fish And Wildlife With General Taxation
by Tom RemingtonFebruary 19, 2010
George Smith, Executive Director for the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, has announced a group effort plan to help fund the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife with a portion of the general taxation. SAM is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy and the Maine Audubon seeking 1/8% of sales tax revenue to fund MDIFW.
Smith writes of how nearly one million Maine residents enjoy the benefits of the hard work done by MDIFW and yet do not pay a nickel for it. He’s correct. MDIFW is funded through license fees and federal money kicked back via the Pittman-Robertson Act. And yet, MDIFW is overburdened with non fish and game programs all funded on the backs of hunters, trappers and fishers.
Changing the funding to come from general taxation is a bad idea and I’ll explain why. First let me briefly lay out my plan for how to ease the financial burden along with the stretching thin of MDIFW personnel. Remove a majority of the non game programs that have been dumped in the lap of MDIFW and place them at the Department of Conservation or other departments where they belong. Then fund those programs with general tax dollars. This would include but not be limited to management of all non game wildlife, including plants and vegetation. Add to that endangered species protection, wildlife viewing platforms, etc. and let’s put search and rescue and snowmobile/atv law compliance into law enforcement. When the Warden Service is needed, they can bill out their services to the appropriate department.
Keeping general tax dollars out of MDIFW is essential. If Maine should opt to allow this money for funding, I guarantee, environmentalists, anti-hunting and animal rights groups will begin pounding the drum and demanding that they have representation on the MDIFW commission. Just about every state in America that has buckled to the financial pressures to find ways of funding and chose tax dollar funding, has run up against this very problem.
Here’s one state in which I’ll give you an example. New Jersey began funding it’s fish and wildlife division, which by the way was morphed into a larger Department of Environmental Protection, with tax dollars. Almost immediately animal rights and anti hunting groups demanded representation. This was a petition that was circulated there last year.
I support Assembly bill A3275 and Senate bill S2041 – legislation that will democratize, modernize and remove the corrupting influence of profit from the hunter-dominated New Jersey Fish and Game Council, the state body that has power over our wildlife.
Declaration for an Independent and Democratic Wildlife Council
We, the people of New Jersey, stand united against the NJ Fish and Game Council, for it has abused its power, has broken the law, and benefits from millions of our tax-dollars every year without giving one voice to the common man.
We seek nothing but reasonable reforms that will prepare our state for managing wildlife in the twenty-first century. We aspire to nothing more than bringing democracy to a state body that now has none.
We act for the environment, for wildlife, for the people of New Jersey and the ideal of good government, for when one special interest holds tyranny over all, only arrogance and corruption can follow.
In this cause we are unanimous and resolute: The NJ Fish and Game Council must be dramatically reformed, so that it will at last serve the interests of the many instead of the recreational hunting desires of the few.
Notice the demonizing of hunters through “profit” when their goals are to put an end to all hunting and fishing. They describe it as “modernizing” and “democratizing” wildlife management. Is this what Maine wants?
In Smith’s article he points out that $2.4 billion is raked in each season through benefits directly related to work by the MDIFW. If you want to see that amount of money shrink in a hurry, then allow the animal rights groups to get a foot in the door to limit hunting and fishing opportunities. MDIFW spends enough time now wasting valued wildlife management dollars defending senseless lawsuits brought on the state by the same groups that will be demanding representation.
I appreciate George Smith’s eagerness to find funding for MDIFW but not at the expense of the hunting, trapping and fishing heritage Maine has enjoyed for decades. I contend that we can actually grow the economic contributions to the state of Maine by shrinking MDIFW back to a fish and game department, while moving all non game programs into other departments, including Conservation and better funding those programs with the tax dollars they deserve.
The money that MDIFW generates now from license sales can then be put toward game management, which is suffering badly. With improved hunting, trapping and fishing opportunities, license sales will go up and non resident sportsmen will return to Maine to spend their valuable sports dollars.
Maine voters should seriously get all the answers and completely understand what an amendment to the Constitution would do to their hunting and fishing heritage. The quick fix to a money problem might look appealing but in the long run it may not be in the best economic interest for Maine to do this.
Tom Remington
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The perfect wolf trap By Bruce Hemming
by Greg FarberFebruary 12, 2010
In my first article Hidden from public view the truth about wolves http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/hemming1.html I was expecting a firestorm from the pro wolf side but out of all the emails only 20% stood by the wolves. Clearly 80% of the readers believe Americans should have the right to protected private property over wolves.
Researching wolves and you will soon learn what the meaning of 1984 really is. What do I mean by that? Simple articles and research will disappear from the web. Back in 2005 I posted on Michigan sportsman forum about a study done in Alaska. What did the study prove? That wolves un control would cause the main prey species to crash it would be on 17 year cycle. The prey species would peak followed by the wolves peaking and crashing the prey species followed by starvation of wolves and a crash of their numbers. The end result on the moose study that there was no extra moose for humans to hunt after the crash. Why do pro wolf want to see animals die long suffering deaths from starvation? Simple they bought into the myth of nature is perfect without man. They would much rather see an animal suffer through weeks of starvation then to allow the average America the right to protect their property.
I stumbled on the real goal of the wolf reintroduction. End the hunting culture in America. Guess what? want to read the study? It disappeared. My computer crash and I know longer have the link. Nor can I find it after weeks of Google searches. I saw this time after time on wolf attacks on humans the stories have short life’s and quickly disappear from the web search engines. Over and over I witness this event. One night I stumbled on a story about 40 something year old male in Minnesota who went for walk the official story is he died of heart attack then the wolves ate him. Guess what the next day the story was gone. 1984 again.
After 15 years the tri state area Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming final was approved for a wolf hunting this fall. Now let us back up and explain how wolves made it to the tri states to begin with. The Director of U S Fish and Wildlife service at the time was a woman named Jamie Clark. In my opinion she wanted to destroy the hunting culture in America. Bringing the wolves in would do just that if left un checked to spread across the land. She now today is the Vice President of Defenders of Wildlife. Wow, Jamie would you please tell the public how to use sportsman dollars to help get a job at Defenders of Wildlife? According to retired USFWS biologist Jim Beers Jamie also stole the money from the states funds to pay for the wolves reintroduction. What better way to destroy hunting in Americas then get animal rights USFWS director who’s policy of protecting the wolf are still in effective today. How many other hidden animal rights people are in the State and Federal wildlife agencies? I think FBI should be investigating her for fraud. I believe if the America Sportsman, ranchers and general public who care about wildlife don’t stand up right now and sue hunting and ranching is over in 30 years.
If you really want to understand what this all means from a wildlife biologist PHD in America that is one of few I trust to tell the truth about wolves read Dr. Charles Kay “Is Delisting Rigged.” Published in Mulie Crazy hunting magazine. Dr Kay said it well be the end of hunting in the western states. He told how the Rocky Mountain elk foundation spend millions of dollars developing the habitat north of Yellowstone for elk. At one time 4000 elk permits were issued each year for this area. Today 0 zero permits and the wolves that slaughtered off the elk would like to thank the sportsman for raising such good tasting elk. That is correct Sportsman you have been set up you fell for the wolf balance nature hoax and now the elk population is crashing. Before you run off and find the State wildlife guys preaching how great wolf are because they are bribed with Federal dollars. You must learn to look for the truth. How I found the truth was getting the deer harvest report for Michigan they clearly show a drop of over 50% on hunter harvest. Now I expose this source of information I am sure the 1984 types will find a way to hide these numbers too.
For those hunters that hang out on Sportsman forum be advised the animal rights groups have people posing as hunters for years. There job is to stick up for predators, cause fights between sportsman, play the straw man argument, and generally quote environmentalist views. Once you understand the game it is easy to spot the traitors. When you see someone start up a thread like I don’t know what do you guys think about 4 wheelers, I am not against scopes on muzzleloader but I don’t think scope fit the idea of primitive hunting. It is a game and I suspect some animal rights folks have full time paid staff members moderating the hunting forums. Post the truth about wolves and you will see a firestorm come out of the wood work. Even when you prove that scientific study that keeping wolves numbers down is better for big game numbers. Unfortunately most hunters today do not understand the balance of nature when it comes to predators. This is too bad because if the truly understood the balance their hunting would be better and this wolf hoax of balancing nature would never had gain all the ground they have.
How many missing people are eating by wild animals? How many wolf attacks have happen and are being covered up? How many times has the Federal agencies threaten people with prison time if they tell their story to the press? Making my film Undue Burden the cost of living with wolves http://www.prosts.com/Documentary-Undue-Burden.htm I interview Jess Carey he is Catron county, NM Wolf investigator. Jess is a smart man understand wildlife and predators been doing the job for 10 years highly qualify honest hard working man. He told me a story about how corrupt the Federal government in New Mexico really is. From Jess own words. A Border Patrol came in to report his hunting partner had been attacked by wolf. Jess took the report and drove to the hospital. The Federal Law Enforcement agency were leaving. The poor hunter being viciously attack by wolf needing stitches to stop the bleeding was then threaten with 10 year prison sentence for killing an endangered wolf.
The man was scouting for elk un armed during the day he saw a wolf coming by and he froze the wolf was trotting by he turn his head slightly to keep and eye on the wolf. The wolf seeing the movement immediately attacked grabbing the man by the knee. The man yelling kicking hitting the wolf. The wolf refuse to release, he then tried to strangle the wolf that didn’t work. He remember he had a pocket knife. Pulled the knife and repeated stabbed the wolf until the wolf release and ran off falling over dead.
The Feds so scared this guy when Jess interview him he said it was coyote that attack him or maybe it fox but no it was not a wolf. Jess is an expert on defining wolf attacks on livestock he can measure the jaw bite marks and tell you what animal did the attack scientifically Jess ask for the pants so he could measure the bite marks. The guy refused. In fact the poor guy was so shook up about the corruption from the Federal Government he moved several states away. A rumor, maybe but I have feeling this is a unstated policy of the Feds. Why would I say that because of another case I heard about in Michigan where a father and son were hunting together. The father saw a wolf stalking his son and shot it dead. He toss the wolf in the river and a few days later feeling guilty turn himself in. His mistake. The rumor in a backroom deal in the court house no charges will be filed if the man does not talk about the incident to the press or anyone.
Then I interview Greg Faber of Idaho who told me about a fishing tree when he was trapped in a spruce tree for 2 days with a pack of vicious wolves underneath the tree. Un armed deep in the Idaho back country trapped in a spruce tree, the pack held him hostage for 2 days. Greg in his own words.
Instantly I sensed this would not be the usual howling session and testing on me, they had made up their minds I was their prey. It was only a short run to the log and across it. Had the first wolf had not bumped into the second and gone splashing into the water, they would have torn me down before I reached the lowest branch of the mighty spruce. I looked around while running and knew I had to make that spruce, it was the only one I could be sure of making, so I sprang towards it. The lead wolf swept around the point of the land yelping and struggling against the current. It occurred to me that he might not make it out, and I wished him into the fastest part of the current where his legs would tire and let him drown.
The lowest branch was a good nine feet off the ground, I ran right up that massive trunk throwing myself back and up and wrapped my arms around that branch pulling myself up and swinging a leg over the branch then my other. I stopped a moment, caught my breath and my mind, and then pulled myself around to the top of the branch and slid over against the tree. Holding on, I stood up and grabbed another branch then steadied myself. One wolf had just nipped my vest as I rolled around the branch to safety, lucky for me he leaped after me too soon and fell short; otherwise he would have pulled me to the ground.
Were is the friendly wolf that never attack humans? I guess the wolves didn’t get the memo not to attack humans. Is the rare incident if so read this one. http://wolfcrossing.org/2007/11/09/wolf-pack-incidents-luna-pack-threatens-hikers-and-hunters/#comment-19236 They said that on Wednesday evening that they were above camp gathering firewood when they noticed movement and the saw the wolves and evidently the wolves made a move toward them and they ran back to camp and one of them climbed up in a tree and waited until the wolves left. They were terrified! Guess the big friendly Mexican gray wolves didn’t get the USFWS memo that they never attack people.
One thing I really want everyone to understand is when wolves attack. Normally it is in the fall through spring. Expect for the Wolves of Russia book you learn about wolves that specialize in killing children. These wolves in the summer would race in to villages grab children toss them on their back and race for the woods. But in researching all the human attacks there is a few things every person going into the woods needs to understand. Wolves are like sharks they are attracted to the smell of fresh blood. I found two different cases where a person was injured with an axe bleeding badly his friend left him to get help in both case returning they only found blood remains and fresh wolf tracks everywhere. One man was armed and they found 5 dead wolves around him. If we keep protecting this super predator over humans we will again start reading about cases like this. Well maybe the pro wolf side will do everything in their power to bury stories like this.
In researching this subject I came up with a theory where the werewolf legend came from. A wolf when attacking tries to disable a prey animal this keeps the animal from escaping. But when attacking another predator the wolf wants to disable the main defense in man case it attack the face thinking our teeth are the main defense. A 6 foot tall wolf standing on his hind legs would tower over a man at the time (when the werewolf legend started) who’s average height was 5 foot 6 inches. A witness would report the wolf standing on 2 legs attacking the face. Not understanding what the wolf was really doing the superstitious folks figure it was a werewolf.
Before I get into one of the pro wolf letter please understand right away you are dealing with some very evil people that believe that mankind needs to be thin out to save the earth. The common theme is everything is man fault. No one ever mention all the great things man has done. No one ever mention how in the early 1900’s hunters stood up and stop wholesale slaughter from market hunters. Restoring wildlife to the high flowing numbers we enjoy today. Because when you are in the elitist camp of the environmentalist everything is man fault. Like Hitler before them that wanted the eugenic program they have step even farther across the insanity line. You must read about Dr. Doom who wants to use Ebola virus to wipe out 90% of all humans on earth. http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/04/doctor_doom_eric_pianka_receiv.html guess what? I know hard to believe he is evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert in others words an environmentalist. It clearly appears that elitist of this country are only teaching our youths one side Eugenie’s and slaughtering off people to save the earth. Wow who appoints these egg heads to play God.
Keeping the above in mind let’s read what the 20% pro wolf people had to say to me in their own words I love this one the best because how out of touch the person really is with nature.
You obviously have a personal beef with wolves/nature in general, and it shows in your article. Mankind, and his “man-molest destiny,” has wrought a suicidal imbalance that plaques the very livelihood of all creatures, great & small; not the least of which our own species. Lest we learn the necessity of balance & tolerance, there will be no future for man.
Many people simply are not happy living in Disneyland, USA, and will gladly accept the risks & consequences of co-habitating in a true natural environment. This country is littered with “safe” concrete-encrusted havens. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Just don’t shove the extinction of the wolf down the throats of those with wider fields of vision.
brain
I believe his name is Brian but maybe Brain is his real name. Personal beef with wolves and nature. This is stunningly funny. History is a perfect example of what to do right in nature. Man for 10,000 years has hunted wolves and kept them under control. In fact it easy to prove that Native Americans hunted the wolves. This is easy to verify by looking up an old Remington painting that showed the Lakota Sioux stalking buffalo wearing wolf skins. In the predators world you are either predator or prey there is no gray area. If man fails in his reasonability to be the top predator nature will filled the void and allow another predator to filled the gap in this case wolves. I have learned the lesson of balance in nature. Nature is a wonderful teacher far better then repeating pro wolf ad agency replies. While this person I believe is young idealist new utopia type. You see all the current buzz words paid for from millions of dollars to Defenders of Wildlife. Tolerance, man made imbalances, no future for man, and my favorite cohabitating. I am sure the wolves would love to share your tofu burger with you. Before you lecture me with over 40 years of experience in nature make sure you have facts straight and don’t just repeat buzz words from the environmentalist pro wolf brainwashing web site.
First let me clearly stated no where I have ever said the words wipe the wolves out the young reader being rash assume that is what I meant. My personnel belief is allowing hunting and trapping of wolves to keep their numbers in balance with the habitat. What a ridiculous statement cohabitate with wolves. So we allow wolves to come in our sanctuary of our private property in our children playground and slaughter our beloved pets right in from of our children? Yes this has happened in several states where the wolves have been shoved down the throats of the local residents. Do we as one reader suggested allowed 10-20 people to be killed by wolves each year?
The reality of nature is amazing animals are a resource to be utilized not put on a pedestal above humans. Most species can be harvest each and every year and the following year the same numbers of animals will be there again. Example wolves a 35 to 50% harvest of all wolves in an area for easy math say there is 1000 wolves you allow hunters and trappers to take out 350 to 500 wolves each year guess what. Magic happens mating season new pups and the following fall you again have 1000 wolves. This can go forever it has worked for 10,000 years and we still have wolves. With today’s understanding of nature we can do this for each species. The reality is allowing harvest of wolves is actually better for the wolves. The wolves quickly learn to fear man, livestock, dogs and houses and stay in the wilderness. The reminding wolves in the winter have an easier time surviving because of less competition from other wolves. This also keeps a healthy wolf population less prone to disease. Arizona banned trapping within 2 years coyotes were attacking children, today rabies and mange is throughout the state. Why man is not using the resource provide the animals are over populated nature steps and kills off the surplus population.
Now for all you self proclaimed nature experts have you ever seen an animal with mange. A truly horrible way to die. Mange is a parasite that lives just under the skin rapidly multiply an animal with mange will lose all its hair over a period of months the intense itching will cause the animal to bite and leave open wounds on its body. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=picture+of+coyote+with+mange the top 3 pictures should satisfy your curiosity of truly grotesque way to die. This disease has been around for centuries but the high amounts seen today can be trace back to the crash of the fur market. All the people that say I could never wear fur and save the animals has caused this suffering to multiply across America. Saving the animal from traps sounds like a Disneyland fairy tale because the reality is the animal suffering has increased dramatically. But you never hear about this because those of us who truly understand nature are not allowed in the main stream media.
I read of a trapper that visits the Russian trapper of Siberia back in the early 90’s he told the people of Russia about the anti fur people here in America. The Russian reply “how can anyone be against what Mother earth has created.” For the Christians what did God cover Adam and Eve with? Animal Skins. No matter what you believe in Mother Nature or God, nature has been designed for man to utilize the animals. The animals are healthier, (population wise), we have seasons and limits based on 100 years of scientific study. We can manage population each and every single year. There will be plenty of animals for your great, great, great, great grand children to see.
What is un natural is the Disneyland no hunting and trapping fantasy put out by the environmentalist. In this world you will have swings in animal population where years you will not see certain animals because of starvation, diseases, and too many predators. When the prey species crash the most dangerous time for human will happen starving wolves will be attacking humans in great numbers. Read the book Wolves in Russia www.wolvesinrussia.com to see what will happen in America soon if we do not wake up to the reality of wolves.
For my unscientific poll on the readers that wrote 80% are not in favor of putting an animal above humans. This is quite common when the general public is allowed to see the whole truth about wolves only 20% or less are in favor of allowing wolves free rein to terrify children kill beloved dogs, slaughter livestock and kill horses. Now that I said this I am sure some environmentalist will post this article on one of the 100’s of pro wolf sites and I will be flooded with the save the wolf and the heck with humans emails.
A hunting season was final approved for Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming but was shot down by a Federal activist judge in Montana Now what is the new number of wolves before a hunting season? 6000 you can kiss elk hunting goodbye in the west if you have 6000 wolves in another 10 years that number of wolves will have wiped out the elk herd. The elk and deer herd will crash the hunting season will be closed and the perfect wolf trap will be sprung on the hunters. The wolves will then spread across the United States and in 30 years all big game hunting will be over. Unless the hunters today wake up to the perfect wolf trap and stop the insanity.
The other things readers must understand is wolves do not make quick kills. On large animals it is not uncommon to find the animal disabled and 10-20 pounds of meat eaten off the victims and left alive to suffer for days. Many pro wolf sites are so afraid of my film Undue Burden the real cost of living with wolves they will not even mention it for fear they will lose support from their members. I well leave you with one final thought please tell me which one of your family members you would like to see die this way so we can cohabitate with the wolves?
1864 Marion County, Arkansas. 3 dead
The scene where it occurred was sad to look upon by the one that made the discovery. The shape of three human beings slain and eaten by wolves. A young mother with 2 children. Attacked by a pack of wolves during the night and destroyed. Their awful doom and destruction can never be accurately described, but never let us imagine the heart rending shrieks and dying moans of the unfortunate family. This mixed with the noise made by the wolves snapping and snarling was certainly awful.
The woman made a desperate effort to defend herself and her children. She had fought the wolves over the space of half an acre. Stones, clubs, and chunks of dead wood that she had used in resisting the attack lay scattered on the down-trodden grass. They were the only weapons of defense and she made desperate use of them to the finish. Finally they overcome her and gloated in the blood of the helpless human creatures. The terror of these poor beings when they were attacked by the vicious and hungry pack can never be fully explained. Their deaths must have been Truly awful.
Bruce Hemming
The End Game – Idaho Wolves Fact vs Fiction
by Greg FarberFebruary 9, 2010
Our hunting heritage, our decades of conservation, building up elk and deer herds, protecting Mountain Goats, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Moose, Antelope, and predators, Bears, Cougars, Wolverines. Even the Wolf, etc.etc. are being destroyed by the false conservationists known as the Eco Friendly, Environmentalists, installing agenda 21 of the United Nations Charter. These evolutionist, Creationist hating communist monsters will not listen to truth coming from the blood soaked grounds of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana. The wipe out of the elk and deer is the reality, and other species are being stressed as well, including other predators, by the massive over populated wolves reintroduced in 1995.
The North American Hunting Model since 1937 funded by hunters paying for licenses and tags fees, the ammo and gun tax, and zero general funds taxes, built up the elk and deer herds, and several of the other once abundant wild life species in the Three states where you now have wolves. Those hunters used the surplus of those herds to survive also. They built this up, the wolf could be a part of it, but people who built nothing into this model, want it all for the wolves, and want to bash hunters so they will go away.. The wolves cannot nor ever have they built up anything, those are myths, studies, models, based on presumptions, not reality. The fact is the North American Hunting Model provided the chance for wolves to be here again, now very foolish and selfish people would allow the wolf to destroy that which we hunters built up, and also will ultimately destroy the wolves.. No Big game Management, no wolves.. PERIOD.
The ongoing Idaho wolf predation study by IDFG substantiates that wolves regulate prey (elk) populations and that wolf predation mortality for those elk populations in the Lolo and Sawtooth Wolf Management Zones exceeds the predation mortality of hunters and bears or lions. The IDFG research is among the best being conducted on the question of wolf mediated effects on a prey species. These findings are compelling substantiation that wolves do indeed have profound impacts on a targeted prey species, within current habitat conditions.
Also in the Lolo and Sawtooth Zones including the surrounding wilderness areas, there is no public lands grazing allotments. (Except in unit 36). The Wolf needs ten deer and or five elk for every ten square miles of wild lands that one wolf inhabits.. Do they have this combination? NO.
As far as ranchers leading government officials, state and federal around by the nose with some type of control is unsubstantiated and nothing but wild conspiracy theatrics tossed out by subsidized $450 per hour WWP representatives with agendas and preconceived mythological theories of their own, not proven or supported by real science of any kind, not to mention the wolves well known history around the world and in Alaska in particular. The truth about wolves in Alaska www.gardnerfiles.com
The game is not available to support the over population of wolves. Wolves are starving, fighting one another, killing one another, and leaving the area.. WWP is not just in denial of this, they know it but cover it up, and we are fighting bad sciences based on governmental cover ups by those involved who only wish to justify their $85,000 per year salary, and who suffer from mans ego and pride which refuses to acknowledge their mistakes to the public, they would rather remain deceptive.. When if the truth were known they would all be called upon to resign..
All science and or so called studies based on the evolutionary theory are just that, nothing more than theory’s.. Period…
Darwin deliberately set out to establish a materialistic metaphysic supported by some biological speculations is clearly supported from Darwin’s early university years and his notebooks. That Darwin clearly did not follow the evidence, as he claimed in his autobiographical boilerplate (largely a promotional effort instigated by Francis, his son), is also very true.
And if those studies are in error, And I personally Know they are, what then has bad science done to the wolf, and what will this bad agenda serving science cause to be done to the grizzly’s if they are included into idaho’s landscapes in more of these theoretical experiments ? The fact is, it is not fair to either animal.. The fact is our hunting community needs to band together and fight these eco terrorists calling themselves the new stewards of EVOLUTION..
Wake up Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, stop allowing the United Nations and their traitor lackeys to shove their agenda down our throats while their communist dog decimates what we built up since the 1930s.. Enough is enough. The time for pretty talking is over..
University taught evolution is for mush headed fools..
New Jersey Working On New Bear Management Plan
by Tom RemingtonFebruary 4, 2010
*Update* There will NOT be a public meeting that was scheduled for Feb. 9, 2010. But please contact your rep. on this. It’s very important that fish and game decisions be left in the hands of fish and game experts not political experts.
The New Jersey Fish and Game Commission is working on a black bear management plan that would include a hunt in the fall of 2010. According the the U.S. Sportsman’s Alliance, a meeting is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2010.
The new management plan is to be heard at the February 9 meeting of the FGC being held at the Central Region Office in the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area in Robbinsville. According to one of its main authors, Council Member Len Wolgast, the plan would allow for a bear hunt to take place this fall.
If passed, the plan must then go to the acting Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for final approval.
I reported a couple weeks ago about a new bill, Assembly Bill 181, which if passed, would take away the lone power of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency in New Jersey, to be able to cancel a hunt or plan approved of by the Fish and Game Commission. Previous EPA Director, Lisa Jackson, now head of Obama’s EPA, arbitrarily canceled all bear hunts and ignored a court-approved bear management plan.
New Jersey sportsmen are encouraged to attend this meeting if possible and show your support for the management plan and the Fish and Game Commission.
Tom Remington
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How Pristine Where Our Ecosystems Before Western Exploration?
by Tom RemingtonFebruary 3, 2010
Oh, if only we could return to the days before man got into our wilderness areas and destroyed everything. Imagine how wonderful it must have been. Nature doing a fine job all on its own and then all of a sudden man expands his reach and destroys it all.
This is what I hear all the time. Even our education factories teach our kids this inaccurate history. Few have ever heard of what it was really like. I know I have had many discussions with people about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I admit I was one of those who dreamed about how wonderful it must have been. What could be more exciting to a man who loved the outdoors than to be a member of the Lewis and Clark troop? This would provide a participant the opportunity to see the forests, the plains, the rivers, the valleys, the birds, deer, moose, elk, bison, mountain goats, wild sheep, tons of beaver, muskrat, mink, lynx, bobcat, mountain lions, coyotes, wolves, oh, my. What am I forgetting. I might have been in for a rude awakening had I been there.
Lewis and Clark mounted their expedition from around 1804-1806 and their journey was quite well documented. We know that they took along “professional” hunters and trappers to provide food for the members. Logs show Lewis and Clark spent much of their time trading with Indians for dogs to eat because there was no game.
During the years of 1825-1860, Jedediah Smith, Peter Skeen Ogden, Milton Sublette, Joe Meek, John Fremont, Charles Preuss, Captain J. H. Simpson, and Howard Egan, explored all over the West, both on foot and horseback. They kept diaries and logs of their adventures and these accounts describe a much different picture of what it was really like before man moved into this region and settled.
Jedediah Smith is believed to be one of the first explorers of this region. In 1827, Smith and what was described as two of his best men, set out up the American River, through Central Nevada and ending up at Lake Lake, Utah. Smith’s log describes this trip accordingly.
After traveling 22 days from the east side of Mount Joseph, (Sierra Nevada’s) I struck the Southwest corner of the Great Salt Lake, traveling over a country completely barren and destitute of game. We frequently traveled without water, sometime for two days, over sandy deserts where there was no sign of vegetation and when we found water in some of the rocky hills we most generally found Indians who appeared the most miserable of the human race. When we arrived at the Salt Lake, we had but one horse and one mule remaining, which were so feeble and poor that they could scarcely carry the little camp equipage which I had along. The balance of my horses I was compelled to eat.
This expedition originally began with 14 men and 28 horses.
In 1828 Peter Skeen Ogden led an expedition into North Central Nevada. In an area that is now near Winnemucca, Nevada on the Humboldt River (Marys River), what was seen is described this way.
From clumps of sage on the hillsides, scrawny, brown-bodied men peered out upon their passage. Down in the Valley, now and again, the Indians scurried into the brush ahead of them. They were clothed, if at all, in twisted rabbit skins; They had no horses. They lived on seeds, and what wild fowl they could bring down. Ogden had never encountered a race of animals less entitled to the name of man.
The following year Ogden returned to the same area to do some trapping on the river. He describes the river as being very “unwholesome” and says the antelope, which during this time would be near the rivers are scarce. He declares, “woe to them who depend to them for support”.
In 1832 Milton Sublette led a group of trappers into the Marys River (Humboldt). There was no game and the trappers had to eat the beavers they had been trapping. His reports stated that there was not much for what wild animals there were to eat and that they were forced to eat wild parsnips, which poisoned them. The group had to leave this area and head north where they hoped to find something to eat.
Because of this it became necessary to at once abandon the river, and strike across the country towards the North, where after being four days with almost no food, and several weeks in the state of famine they reached the Snake River above the fishing Falls, they were forced, as they passed through the country, to subsist upon ants, crickets, parched moccasins, and the pudding made from the blood, taking a pint at a time from their almost famished animals.
Joe Meek recalls holding his bare hands in an anthill until they were covered with angry ants and then licking the ants off and eating them like a hungry animal.
Joe Walker later traveled through this same Marys River area and continued on into California near the Truckee River down the West Slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Having left Salt Lake and traveling 14 days into California, the expedition had not seen any game to eat and instead lived off horses they were compelled to kill to ward off starvation.
One man killed a deer, which he carried to camp on his back. The animal was dressed, cooked and eaten, … in less time than a hungry wolf would devour a lamb. This was the first game larger than a rabbit that they had killed since leaving the Salt Lake two months ago. For fourteen days they had lived on nothing but horseflesh …twenty four horses had died in crossing the mountain, and seventeen of these had been eaten.
1825 and 1826 found Ogden covering much of what we all know as Oregon today and not only did his group not find any game but the horses were starving because they couldn’t find even any decent grasses for the horse to feed on. It wasn’t just the explorers finding these wastelands. Ogden relates a story told of an Indian woman in Oregon.
The winter before had been so severe, she said, that her people had to resort to the bodies of relations and children. She had killed no one herself, but had fed on two of her children who died.
Things are pretty harsh when anyone has to resort to cannibalism but to first have to kill somebody to eat them, is unfathomable.
John Fremont and Charles Preuss covered areas of Southern Wyoming west toward the Bear River and then South toward Salt Lake. Things were tough. Game was missing and grazing grasses for the horses were non existent as well. Explorers tried trading with the Indian for food but soon discovered the Indians were starving to death themselves. It was only upon finding the Shoshone camped out along the Snake River, were they able to find a tribe living well from ample supplies of smoked Salmon.
Fremont’s party traveled the Columbia River north into Vancouver finding much the same. They even had to buy firewood from some of the resident Indians. Heading south toward Nevada, local tribes warned Fremont there was nothing for his horses to feed on. They were right.
… They had found nothing but dry, shallow basins, their way “broken by gullies and impeded by sage, and sandy on the hills, where there is not a blade of grass.”
Later Fremont would find Pyramid Lake and gorge on trout.
In all of the travels that are documented by many of these explorers, in what is now the state of Nevada, only one time is there mention of someone sighting an elk, but it is believed the person saw a mule deer and mistook it for an elk.
The Indians in this region mostly lived terrible lives, with little clothing, food or sufficient shelter. They ate mostly rats and insects and what few other birds or small game they might be fortunate to find and kill. We have visions of Indians having access to ample game animals and utilizing the hides for clothing and shelter. Such was not the case in most of the Great Basin.
Howard Egan, Sr. was the first Mormon explorer into the region of the Great Salt Lake. As a matter of fact he traveled there with Brigham Young. Egan covered much of the area between the Salt Lake and west into California as he was in the business of driving cattle there.
Egan recounts for us how the Indians crafted these remarkable corrals they would use to trap antelope. The entire episode of putting on a drive required all the men, women and children of the tribe. One had to question whether the effort put into the building and driving was worth the 24 antelope they trapped in twelve years. But when you’re hungry, some antelope is better than none.
The Indians did a similar thing conducting a cricket drive. No, I’m not kidding. Trenches were dug of about 1 foot wide by 1 foot deep and covered over with a thin layer of stiff grass. All the tribes people would begin pounding the ground with tufts of straw in a concerted effort, to drive the black crickets toward the trenches. Once the trenches contained all the crickets they could drive, they set the grass they had placed over the trenches on fire, killing the crickets. They then used the crickets for food, mostly grinding it up and mixing it with other things to make a concocted kind of flour.
These and more accounts certainly paint a far different picture of how things actually were than what we are often taught about how balanced and bountiful our forests and wilderness were before man arrived. Man certainly made his share of mistakes in being good stewards of the land but in time we figured out what we had to do to sustain game populations and to control the predators that destroyed those.
With the presence of man and bringing with him agriculture and the knowledge to plant and grow crops and tend the land, this began to create a better habitat that would support a heartier and healthier crop of game animals. We controlled the predators so people could harvest the game to feed their families and over time devised a pretty decent wildlife management plan that many around the world now envy.
Sorry, but Mother Nature didn’t really give us a “balanced” ecosystem, at least one that is the most productive. These accounts above I believe more accurately depict Mother Nature’s idea of a balanced ecosystem. There’s nothing wrong with that but I don’t think it is in the best interest of humans to have it that way, nor is it what I think people really want or are thinking about when they speak of “natural” wildlife management.
Tom Remington
