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A Wolf Update
We'll be doing a quick update today on the wolves vs. sheep show that we did back in May. At that time, we talked to rancher Curt Jacobs, whose lambs were being killed by a wolf (or wolves). In the intervening time, Oregon's Department of Fish and Wildlife carried out a variety of non-lethal techniques to chase the wolves away, and those seemed to be working. But last week three more lambs and a goat were found killed, and now the wolves' days seem to be numbered.
Federal hunters are now after them, and Curt Jacobs has the right to shoot them if they attack his livestock.
Jacobs will join us for a few minutes at the end of the show today. What would you like to ask him?
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Would it be possible to require “scope-mounted” video cameras for those given permission to shoot wolves “caught in the act” of attacking livestock, so as to provide “proof of guilt”?
I’m concerned that the rancher’s word alone may be a loop-hole when the actual attacker might be a different animal (such as a feral dog) rather than the wolf being targeted.
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I find it very discgusting that our tax dollars are spent flying around after wolves. Is it not enough that we've almost exterminated wolves completely from the country.
Now Ranchers again get priority over the natural environment.
When will we get the clue?
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Who was here first? The wolf or the rancher? Who is a better steward of the environment, the wolf or the rancher? The wolf deserves to be here and run free, the rancher should consider the cons of living in the wilderness. We need to change the idea that the wolf is evil, it does the environment better than any white man could. Since reinterduction into the Yellowstone area the wolf alone has helped the elk move around more, which in turn helped the watersheds, which got rid of the invasive tamerisk tree, helped the beaver population grow, the coyote population has decreased and there are more butterflies all because of the wolf. The wolf deserves to be in oregon, the rancher can go somewhere else to munipulate the environment to his liking.
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Curt,
Most business account for loss of product by manipulating the price of goods being sold. Why is it not possible for you to account for your losses by changing the price of products you sell? Also, does the amount of sheep being killed merit the killing of wolves?