LAST EDITED ON Jan-31-12 AT 02:35PM (MST)[p]
LAST EDITED ON Jan-31-12 AT 02:34?PM (MST)
TOPGUN is right; FWIW, That area is home for me. I was born on the ranch in question at Alpine Camp. Dad ran cattle out of the Deadman Camp (page 5 of this link:
http://www.fws.gov/alamosa/planning/slv_ccp_update2_web2.pdf )
until the late 50s. I fished there until the late 60s just after the Arizona Land and Cattle Company bought the place.
Hopefully these folks won't be so naive as to think the wolves will only stay on the Baca. I understand they have some excess elk; perphaps if they allowed hunting that overpopulation could be beter managed.
Too late anyway, wolves have been on the west side of the valley since at least 1984 or so. The last time I saw one was in 2005. At least one isn't too scared of humans; he walked between our tent and the truck one night trailing a doe.
Write your response to this person:
[email protected] (Laurie Shannon)
Snail mail here:
Laurie Shannon, Planning Team Leader,
Division of Refuge Planning,
P.O. Box 25486,
Denver, CO 80225
>If you guys would read the
>plan before spouting off you
>would see that it isn't
>even going to be finalized
>until 2014. The comment
>period right now lasts until
>2/25 and the wolf deal
>is on a list of
>alternatives that isn't in the
>top several of what they
>want to do.
Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?