Anti Hunt Rally In Yellowstone

HunterHarry

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Not just about wolves.
I'd love to see a counter rally at this event.


http://www.speakforwolves.org/

From their page...


On June 28-29 2014, Americans of all-walks-of-life will meet in Arch Park in Gardiner, Montana to tell our elected leaders that we need to reform wildlife management, at both, the state and federal level. Approximately 3000 grey wolves have been killed in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes region since they were delisted from the Endangered Species Act.

Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014 is about taking an important step towards stopping the wolf slaughter that is currently taking place across the United States. We must take bold measures, however, and address the root-cause(s) of the wolf slaughter, the killing of other predators, as well as bison, wild horses and other members of the animal kingdom. The status quo for wildlife management in America is broken and it must be fixed.

This 2-day celebration of predators and our national heritage will feature prominent speakers, live music, education booths, children's activities, food/drink vendors, local wildlife photography, screening of wildlife documentaries and more.

This festival-type event is family-friendly, educational, inspirational and non-confrontational. Alcohol will not be served. Predator-friendly beef, chicken, pork, vegetarian and vegan options will be available for purchase. There is no admission fee. Arch Park is a public venue adjacent to the northwest entrance of Yellowstone National Park (Mammoth Hot Springs).

The 5 Keys to Reforming Wildlife Management in America are as follows:

1. Restructuring the way state Fish & Game departments operate:

Western governors currently appoint agency commissioners, which essentially, tell the state Fish & Game Departments what to do. This is cronyism at its worst. State Fish & Game Departments are mostly funded by the sale of hunting/trapping/fishing licenses. These agencies are bound into serving the interest of "sportsmen" because it's the hand that feeds them. Modern funding mechanisms, application of the best-available science and genuine public involvement in decision making are sorely lacking in these institutions and it must be addressed. Another option would be to empower the federal government to manage all wildlife on federal public lands.

2. Removing grazing from all federal public lands:

The "control" of native wildlife to benefit the livestock industry is ground zero for the badly-broken wildlife management status quo. For more than a century, the livestock industry has single-handedly transformed the once-wild west into a tamed pasture of cows and sheep, resulting in the reduction of native wildlife populations that compete with habitat and forage. It is also well documented the damage that grazing causes when livestock infests federal public wildlands. Livestock are non-native and largely responsible for soil compaction, a decrease in water retention and aquifer recharge, erosion, destruction of wetlands and riparian areas, flooding and a net-loss of biodiversity. Grazing enables invasive plant species to proliferate, which greatly affects the West's historic fire regime.

3. Abolishing Wildlife Services:
Hidden within the US Department of Agriculture, is a rogue agency that is essentially, the wildlife killing-arm of the federal government. This federal tax-payer-supported agency works with the livestock industry to kill native wildlife like wolves, coyotes, black bears, cougars and many other non-predator species. Over the past century, Wildlife Services is responsible for the death of tens-of millions of native wildlife. Methods of killing include trapping, poisoning and aerial gunning. At the very least, the predator-control segment of Wildlife Services must be terminated.

4. Banning trapping/snaring on all federal public lands:
We must evolve as a society and move away from this barbaric, unethical, cruel and torturous method(s) of killing native wildlife. Leg-hold traps, conibear traps and other devices are indiscriminate killers. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of dogs caught/killed by traps on public lands in states like Idaho. It's only a matter of time before a child or adult steps into one of these bone-crushing devices. Some states currently require individuals to check their traps once every 72-hours, while other states do not require trappers to check them, at all.

5. No killing of predators, except for extreme circumstances:

The best available science suggests that predators, including wolves, are a self-regulating species. In other words, predators don't overpopulate, nor do they kill for "fun". Instead, their populations naturally fluctuate, as do prey or ungulate populations. We need to better understand and embrace the trophic cascade effect predators have within ecosystems. Non-lethal measures should be implemented in rare instances where there are actual human/predator conflicts. For example, an aggressive and/or habituated bear may need to be killed after non-lethal measures have failed.

While state fish and game agencies enable the slaughter of America's wildlife, the best-available science suggests that predators, particularly wolves, play a crucial role across the landscape.
Known throughout the scientific community as trophic cascade, gray wolves are apex predators whose behavior effects dozens of other species, leading to an increase in biodiversity. Soils, plant communities, other wildlife species, riparian areas and forests are all effected by the presence of wolves.

Come to Arch Park in Gardiner, Montana June 28-29, 2014. The event is family friendly and will feature prominent speakers, live music, video production crews, education and outreach booths, food and drink vendors and the screening of wildlife documentaries. This is going to be the event of the year in the northern Rockies. Together we can make history and restore our wild national heritage!

Sponsors:
- Predator Defense
- Adopt a Wolf Pack
- American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign
- Buffalo Field Campaign
- Colorado Wolf & Wildlife Center
- In Defense of Animals
- Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance
- The Ravensong Group
- Howling for Justice
- Animal Cruelty Idaho
- Great Old Broads for Wilderness-Palouse
 
Where's my drum of napalm when I need it? (I'm just kidding little G-men in black)
That would be awesome!

The antis will attack from any angle, at any time, and without a single thought to science-based management. The only way to counter them is to get off our butts and unite.

Some groups have tried to units us but everyone gets hung up on the trivia! It's about to become a slippery slope kids ....as if it wasn't already!

I wish I had all the answers.

Thanks for the gloomy report.
Zeke
 
Interesting. The folks sponsoring and attending this rally are clueless.

The State of Wyoming is anxiously awaiting a decision from Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the D.C. Federal District Court on the Wyoming Wolf Plan that was adopted in 2012. The case is Defenders of Wildlife, et.al v. Salazar. I have heard that a decision is imminent. I am monitoring the Court's website on a daily basis. I am not holding my breath that an Obama appointee, a Harvard graduate and someone that has practiced law only in D.C. will make the right decision. Stranger things have happened in out court system.

Her reasoning in keeping the decision in D.C. Federal Court was because the issue was of "great national significance". When this judge decided that U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. could rule on this issue, she opened a huge precedent/loophole for other eco-elite groups to forum shop in Washington D.C. in an attempt to gain favorable rulings from liberal judges in ESA cases. The U.S. District Court in Colorado actually kicked a similar eco-elite challenge out and sent it back to Wyoming where it belonged. When the Wyoming Federal District Judge rules on the matter, we could find ourselves with two conflicting opinions. That is how the ACA finally ended up in front of SCOTUS.

Any guesses as to how many wolves will be left alive in Wyoming if the D.C. Judge strikes down the Wyoming Wolf Plan?

just sayin...mh
 
Make note to self to go and kill some coyotes this weekend while I still can do it legally.

And you guys all talk about how screwed up California is. This whole liberal tree hugging country is going down the toilet. I feel real sorry for my children.

Bill
 
I wonder if the idiots will mention Canadian wolves and horses are not "native".


















Stay thirsty my friends
 
Wait until they find out that farmers all across America kill hundreds of billions of aphids every year (with consent from the USDA) for their own profit and greed.
 

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