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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:42 AM Aug 2018

Washington judge blocks kill order on wolves to save cattle

Source: Associated Press

Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press
Updated 7:12 pm CDT, Monday, August 20, 2018

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Washington has issued an emergency order blocking the state from killing members of a wolf pack that have been preying on cattle.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife had announced Monday morning that it would immediately begin efforts to kill members of the wolf pack who had been preying on cattle in Washington's northeastern Ferry County, near the Canadian border.

Members of the Togo wolf pack have preyed on cattle three times in the past 30 days and six times in the past 10 months, which exceeds the state's threshold to take action, the agency said.

But two environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging that decision, and a Thurston County Superior Court judge on Monday afternoon issued an order to temporarily block the hunt. A hearing on the matter was set for Aug. 31.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Washington-to-kill-members-of-wolf-pack-to-13169056.php

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Washington judge blocks kill order on wolves to save cattle (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP

Good for that judge! There are other ways to keep the wolves away from the stock. CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2018 #1

You are absolutely right. pazzyanne Aug 2018 #2

Thank you, pazzyanne. lamp_shade Aug 2018 #3

Bravo. Thank you for your work catrose Aug 2018 #4

What a great project csziggy Aug 2018 #6

Bless you! Duppers Aug 2018 #7

This is easy Bayard Aug 2018 #5

Exactly! Who was there first. Duppers Aug 2018 #8

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,627 posts)

1. Good for that judge! There are other ways to keep the wolves away from the stock.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:45 AM

Aug 2018

The ranchers are opposed to the wolves being there at all, and will go to great lengths to kill them.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)

2. You are absolutely right.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 02:00 AM

Aug 2018

I have been working for wolf restoration in Minnesota, since 1974. My incentive was looking at the last known Minnesota timber wolf in a taxidermy display when I was 10 years old. After years of hard work, sweat, money, and emotional involvement, we now have a stable wolf population. We have the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN where people come from all over the world to learn about wolves and how to sustain their populations and minimize the impact on humans and live stock. At the present time, coyotes are a much bigger problem than wolves here. The program works if people are willing to educate themselves. Our current project is restoring wolves to Isle Royal, an island in Lake Superior. The idea that killing wolves is the solution is archaic. The pluses of having a stable wolf population is immeasurable in the natural balance in the environment.

lamp_shade

(14,836 posts)

3. Thank you, pazzyanne.

Reply to pazzyanne (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 03:24 AM

Aug 2018

catrose

(5,068 posts)

4. Bravo. Thank you for your work

Reply to pazzyanne (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 06:42 AM

Aug 2018

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

6. What a great project

Reply to pazzyanne (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 02:15 PM

Aug 2018

Congratulations on your success!

Could that last timber wolf have been at the Bell Museum? If so my husband's great grandfather, Dr. Thomas Sadler Roberts, was partially responsible. He had a lot of influence on the dioramas in the Bell and provided some of the bird specimens for the museum.

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On May 6, 1915 Thomas Sadler Roberts was appointed associate curator of the Zoological Museum and professor of ornithology in the Department of Animal Biology. Henry Nachtrieb remained director until 1919 when Roberts assumed this position.

In 1916 the Zoological Museum was moved to the Animal Biology Building (later named the Zoology Building and razed in 1994) where it remained until 1939 when the Museum of Natural History was built. The Zoological Museum was a separate unit of the University of Minnesota. Its only tie with a college or department was through the Ornithology class, established in 1916, which was offered through the Department of Animal Biology. From 1903-1919, the Museum was largely by donations and a small supply fund maintained by the University. On December 9, 1919 a conference was held in President Burton’s office; for the first time, the Museum was given a budget for maintenance and staff salaries. Dr. Roberts was able to have William Kilgore appointed curator of the Zoological Museum in 1921.

The Museum is referred to in the University President’s reports as the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Survey until 1928 when the name was changed to Museum of Natural History. In 1967 it was renamed the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History to honor James Ford Bell who was one of the Museum’s greatest benefactors.

Thomas Sadler Roberts remained as Director of the Museum until his death in 1946.
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6h18gjt

https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/