[Ski]

re: above-quoted blurb from "Defenders": "... tens of thousands... " yeah... sure.... anybody in the market to buy a bridge?

[gb]

[Ski]

I gotta go fix a roof this afternoon. why don't you ask them?

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[Jake Neiffer]

MCL and gb- Wolves are another thing to add to the "not in my backyard" list. If wolves were convening at your local cemetery or eating your livestock I think you would be singing a different tune.

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[gb]

A pile, just a pile.

[Ski]

The coyotes raised a lot of hell over in University Place; ate a whole mess of cats. Don't know if they ate any children, though. Maybe they need some wolves over there to deal with the coyotes. That roof job was pretty easy once I got all the damn chestnuts and stuff pulled out of the drain pipe. I think flat roofs should be illegal in Western Washington.

small wonder the roof wasn't draining properly 112614

amazing how well the roof drains when the water has somewhere to go! 112614

wonder if this stuff would work for waterproofing my boots? 112614

one of the nice things about working on roofs are the great views- Mt. Rainier in the distance 112614

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[Jake Neiffer]

I'm not a hater of native wildlife. Just trying to look at the issue practically. They have caused plenty of headaches & controversy in Montana and elsewhere. And we are far more populated than those states. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2011/02/montanas-governor-encourages-ranchers-to-kill-wolves.html

[Jake Neiffer]

The article says coyote attacks outpace wolves. These type of misleading statements are dishonest. Because there is far more than 1700 coyotes. My folks have had 1 coyote attack in decades. A particularly desperate coyote killed a calf while it was still halfway in the birth canal. But wolves are a different animal so to speak, hunting in packs. And ranchers can defend their animals from coyotes.

[Ski]

[Humptulips]

IDAHO FOR WILDLIFE, INC. PRESS RELEASE (11-25-14) By Steve Alder, Pres. The decision by the BLM to withdraw our permit will not stop the coyote and wolf hunt. We cannot dictate where people hunt. We will follow the same procedure as we did last year and require hunters during registration to sign a waiver stating that any wolf or coyote taken on BLM land will not qualify for the derby. The BLM at the DC level has become too politically influenced and motivated. The idea that they would require a full blown NEPA analysis including an Environmental assessment for only 100-150 hunters to cover over 3million acres is absurd and ridiculous. We worked very hard with the local BLM to be granted the permit. After the BLM refused to grant us a permit last year, they advised us to start the permit process early and we jumped through every hoop they required. They issued us a permit and then the DC bureaucrats revoked it. There is no doubt that the local BLM spend a time and resources on this permitting process. The BLM policies need to be changed and we will push for more legislative oversight of this out of control agency that is now caving to the radical anti-hunters. We will offer 2 cash prizes, one for the most coyotes and one for the most wolves. We will provide additional prizes for successful youth hunters. 100% of the excess cash contributions will be given back to the Salmon valley to various charities, such as a college scholarship, The local food bank, and to help a local rancher that was severely impacted by wolf depredation this past summer. This rancher is not one of the large ranchers and he lost the majority of his calf crop along with 13 adult cows to wolves this past Summer while they were grazing on Public land and this that has devastated him financially. He’s hoping to get a job at the new ShopKo that they are building in Salmon as he doesn’t think he can recover financially. Thanks, Steve Alder

[Ski]

On the 29th of November 1941, just before the Nazis hanged 18-year-old Zoya Kosmodemjanskaja, she screamed at her executioners "You can’t hang all 190 million of us." There are a hell of a lot of ranchers in the western US. If the BLM, USFWS, State Wildlife agencies, and those individuals and organizations who are so much in favor of wolf reintroduction are really serious about the success of their efforts, they might consider revising their strategies when it comes to working with and interacting with those ranchers. And until the rhetoric is toned down, the only purpose it serves is to foment more divisiveness. But then, the ad homs, name-calling, and carrying on like children is in some ways pretty entertaining, considering that most of it's coming from grown men. Keep up the good work, gentlemen. Hump, where would I send Mr. Adler a check?