I love a good wolf debate
and hope it can stay civil!!
I guess I'm not making myself too clear on what I'm saying, not that THAT hasn't happened before
I wasn't leaving the Native Americans out of it, they are humans too and screwed things up just as well as the rest of humanity.
(side note - my forfathers didn't have nuttin to do with what happened here, my gramma came over here from Poland when she was 16!
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I do use furs and make things from fur, but I don't kill off every single furbearer in my state that I use - that would kinda put me outta busisness... that's what happened with wolves and bison many years ago, there was a bounty on wolves and they were wiped out because back then we were too stupid to know what management was.
NOW they want to (or they have) put the wolves back but they don't have enough sense to know how to do it without a population explosion and THEN there comes a hunting season and everyone wants to kill em all off again. It's a vicious cycle with no middle ground and NO ONE wins.
I never said outsiders should manage your state, but now that the wolf has already been reintroduced, is your state going to manage or wipe them out again? Yes everyone has an impact on nature (well not everyone) but it's HOW they impact it that counts. If you want to hunt and trap an animal every year and there are only (for example) twenty of them in your area and you kill 18 of them, do you think you will be able to hunt/trap them the following year?
Let me ask this, there were wolves where you are before there were men and the cycle of nature did pretty well by itself. Why can't some resemblance of the balance be restored (you've already GOT the wolves, right?) and some of you make some money off trapping wolves and selling the fur and skulls?
My biggest issue is with man playing God and trying to determine which species of animal should become extinct.