Bush/Cheney's Plan To Kill Yellowstone Area Wolves

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This administration has servility towards humans and now they must include the wolves of Yellowstone who are critical to the eco-system since their introduction back into that National Park.
Stopp Killing Animals Because WE Can

Here's a link to petition this Administration from another slaughter just in our country Stop the Bush/Cheney Sneak Attack on Wolves Petition.

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ajedigecko

my money is on the wolves......

melodious

If you would care to do so, you can put your money here...

http://www.nature.org/

tybird

What idiots...all it takes is a drive through the western half of Yellowstone to see that the eco-system has still not recovered from the devastating fires. In the coming years, an alpha predator will be key to the recovery of the park (a big money maker).

ajedigecko

melodious wrote:

If you would care to do so, you can put your money here...

http://www.nature.org/

not exactly sure of what you are implying.....but my money is with sierra club already.

tybird

ajedigecko wrote:

not exactly sure of what you are implying.....but my money is with sierra club already.

Mine is with the National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Foundation.

melodious

Yes. You received my implication rather well. Thanks for sharing and giving support to our animal and nature friends.

Good day to you
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melodious

http://www.cafepress.com/natureart/1739561

for your viewing ...

lots of nice photos...

peace.

*since this is on topic for nature.....

Cosmo

"One major change took place after the last of Yellowstone’s wolves were trapped and shot 80 years ago, when growth of new aspen trees came to a halt. Photographs taken in the 1890s show aspen groves standing tall on Blacktail Deer Plateau and elsewhere in the park, many of them gone today. Since Yellowstone’s establishment in 1872, 95 percent of its aspen forests have been lost. Though they never covered more than 4 percent of the park’s area (in its northern range), aspen groves support a greater variety and abundance of birds and understory plants than do surrounding Douglas fir and lodgepole pine forests.
The culprits behind the decline of Yellowstone’s aspen were elk, whose populations began to boom after the wolf disappeared. The hungry animals devoured new growth of willow as well as aspen. For many years, the park service controlled elk numbers by culling herds, but in 1968—in response to a public outcry to Congress—it made a controversial decision to minimize human meddling with the park’s wildlife, including elk. Without culling or natural predation, there was then nothing to limit the grazers but the carrying capacity of the land."
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"Heavy browsing by elk during the wolf’s absence may have affected other species too. Before the predator’s reintroduction, beavers had vanished from the park’s northern range, although they flourished in the 1920s when aspen groves harbored trees of all ages, including the stem sizes preferred for dam-building. The animals themselves contributed to aspen decline—to some degree eating themselves out of house and home—but some ecologists believe the tree would have continued to regenerate had they not suffered from browsing by elk. Today, following their reintroduction on U.S. Forest Service land adjacent to Yellowstone, beavers are returning to the parts of the park frequented by wolves. In these areas, not only aspen but also willows are sending up tall shoots again."
(Source: http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=64&articleID=829 )
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Beaver dams created water bodies that water birds flock to as well as a diversity of insects such as butterflies, dragonflies and bees. There's a reason WHY they call it 'WILDlife'. Take out the top predator in an environment and you alter it.
I do not believe it is in America's best interests to sacrifice a National Monument, such as Yellowstone, for the sake of financial losses by a few of us.

Ledbetterus

For a minute there I pictured Bush and Dick in camo's with M16's walking around Yellowstone looking for wolves.. To bad too.. we've seen Dick's aim (EDIT: No pun intended, dick..aim.. yeaaah).

Come Back in Black

where exactly does it say this is Cheney and Bush's plan? I'm pretty sure they don't give a rats ass about some wolves in Yellowstone. They have a lot of other stuff going on. Saving the wolves is fine but attaching their names to it in order to create more drama and outrage is a little bit extreme.