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The controversial Idaho predator derby is back on, scheduled from Thursday through Sunday.
The Predator Hunting Contest and Fur Rendezvous, hosted by Idaho for Wildlife*, will be held on U.S. Forest Service and private land near Salmon, Idaho. The contest has been barred from U.S. Bureau of Land Management land, which reduces by half the area where the derby would be held.
In November BLM canceled the groups special permit to use 3 million acres of BLM land after the Center for Biological Diversity, Advocates for the West, the Western Watersheds Project and Project Coyote threatened a lawsuit.
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Though wolves are protected in the state of Oregon, theyre considered fair game in Idaho. In 2013, a federal judge ruled that Idaho for Wildlife didnt need a Forest Service permit for the annual event because the organization was encouraging use of the forest for a lawful activity.
http://www.opb.org/news/blog/newsblog/idahos-wolf-kill-derby-back-on-schedule/?google_editors_picks=true
* -- WTF??
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)I guess the wild life isn't the animals that are the targets but the animals doing the killing.
That's like fucking for virginity. Or like in Vietnam where we destroyed a village in order to save it.
We humans can justify anything they want to do.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BAN THESE VIOLENT CANNED GAMES IT IS NOT HUNTING. NAME THE PROUD PRIVATE LAND OWNER.
These BOZOS place out dead animals like cheap auction livestock, they dump the poor animals out around their property and shoot them, to attract enough "predators" for their stupid canned hunts.
Then we have the moron 'hunters' like the Yellowstone 'private property owner' who lets out flocks of UNGUARDED sheep to attract the Yellowstone wolves to his property to kill them.
Or how about that other moron hunter who trapped wild cats and crippled them so his friends could shoot a big cat."
These canned predator hunts and the other animal abusers who use dog packs to tear apart trapped coyotes should be in jail for crimes.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)A canned hunt is when an animal is realsed into a fenced area that it cannot escape and subsequently shot by a paying hunter.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The private landowner has piles of dead animals and that attracts coyotes and the coyotes eat, learn to kill suffering downer animals as some animals take weeks to die. They breed a lot because the food is provided by piles of dead and suffering 'livestock. Their pups grow up only knowing the feeding on dead and taking young newborns from starving mothers. Of course these coyotes also go after neighboring ranchers if the dead pile goes away. That private landowner did "something" to attract those 100 coyotes that were shot!!
No private land without piles of food attracts 100 coyotes who do not flee a couple hundred people, with their noise and ATVs unless they were fed and used to those conditions. fence or no fence.
distance shot of piles of dead 'livestock' that still gives me nightmares.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Yes, I do mock them.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)SALMON, Idaho -- Hunters participating in a wolf- and coyote-shooting contest in east-central Idaho killed 30 coyotes but no wolves.
Idaho for Wildlife's Steve Alder says the Predator Hunting Contest and Fur Rendezvous that ran Friday through Sunday near Salmon drew less than 100 hunters, down slightly from last year.
A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck about 60 miles to the north of Salmon on Saturday and was followed by aftershocks on Sunday.
The quakes caused no damage but Alder says experienced hunters reported the temblors spooked animals in the region and made hunting more challenging.
http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2015/01/05/wolf-derby-results/21297901/
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I think it is hilarious that the misnamed group "Idaho For Wildlife" used the excuse that an earthquake took place on Saturday as the reason no wolves were killed.