The Real Wolf by Ted B. Lyon & Will N. Graves

Author:Ted B. Lyon & Will N. Graves
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510719637
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Carcass Removal

The Mexican wolf management program, from the beginning, has been complicated by environmentalists. The Center for Biological Diversity, who originally sued to push recovery forward after biologists had voted against it, demanded that ranchers remove dead livestock or have no wolf damage control occur on their allotments or land. Ranchers balked at this demand in part due to costs, logistics, and the fact that most allotments have areas that are completely inaccessible for such maneuverings. The ground is always frozen in the winter leaving them with no access to pastures or no way to bury carcasses. This demand is simply unattainable.

Ranchers also own the waters and rights to access that land through beneficial use of the water. Removal or manipulation of livestock access to those rights is a federal take of their property and often leads to serious management interference with their grazing rotation plans. Neither the experts nor the science agrees with the CBD. For example, The University of Minnesota conducted a study in early 1999 to determine if any livestock management practices could prevent wolf depredation. The study could find no management practices certain to prevent wolf depredation. The only method proven to prevent wolf depredation was removing the depredating wolves from the farm.11

Wildlife biologist Ed Bangs, who until 2012 was the Wolf Recovery Coordinator for USFWS, and the principle author of the 1993 Environmental Impact Statement for the wolf recovery program in the North Rockies, wrote in a 2006 email that he did not believe that removal of carcasses would make a difference in wolf behavior:

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