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https://www.facebook.com/prairieprotectioncolorado.org/posts/2240293119568169?__tn__=K-R

It looks like CPW took down the bobcat testimony I hope they put it back up so hunters can hear the crazy whacked out babble these folks are putting out.

If you listened to the meeting, the anti's brought in animal rights preacher, Reverend Halperin. I'm listening to his babble, sitting next to Conrad Dreher who brings up his Catholic Catechism on his phone and shows me that it exactly says wearing furs is totally acceptable according to Catholic teaching. I am non denominational, but that is good enough for me.

This group appears as extreme as any of them....

Lierre Keith- Board Director

Lierre Keith is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of six books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet She’s also been arrested six times. You can read more about Lierre at www.lierrekeith.com.

Who touts that they have been arrested 6 times???? WTH?

The only problems is that there is more than one fringe group and their voices get louder and louder. Being a Ballot Initiative state where wildlife issues can be debated and changed, sucks.

1. Elk and deer are stronger because the wolves chase them and make them run

2. Chased elk and deer are good for the soil as when they are chased, their hoofs dig deeper into the soil, thus retaining water and aerate the soil.

Excellent Article:

" 'Hunting is conservation!' This slogan seems to be omnipresent lately. It is clearly meant to pair the ideas in people’s minds so that the idea of hunting will benefit by association with the idea of conservation. After all, hunting involves killing, which not only evokes negative sentiments in people’s minds but would seem to be the very antithesis of conservation.

Hunters (as a group) are quick to retort that conservation depends on hunting because, first, it was hunters the likes of Teddy Roosevelt who started the conservation movement way back when, and second, because hunters, unlike non-hunters, pay to ensure that there are wild animals to hunt. They think this shows they deserve privileged treatment when it comes to saying how wild animals should be managed. In practice, their influence invariably results in the killing of large carnivores, such as cougars and wolves, in the belief that it will result in more deer and elk to shoot. After all, in theory fewer carnivores should mean more herbivores. Even Aldo Leopold thought so 100 years ago when he was young and very little was known about predator-prey ecology.

The admission that hunters have played a role in wildlife conservation ought to be coupled with the admission that they had an even greater role in causing the demise of many species in the first place: passenger pigeon, bison, beaver, gray wolf, grizzly bear – none of which are really doing that well today as a matter of fact. At most, hunters as a class have made partial reparation for the sins of their past, which hardly warrants granting them special rights.

.....This brings us to the public trust and the idea that democracy should prevail in wildlife management – or at least in hunting. What does this mean? The plain meaning is that state wildlife management agencies have a duty to manage wild animals for the benefit of the public – the entire public. So how then does it happen that hunters, especially big-spending trophy hunters, are the primary clientele of state wildlife management agencies? After all, they comprise a relatively small percentage of the citizenry. Yet the big spenders get the best hunting opportunities; and hunters as an interest group dominate state wildlife management. Public opinion surveys have repeatedly shown that most citizens oppose hunting black bears or cougars with hounds and disapprove of bear baiting. Furthermore, there is a growing body of research showing that wolves and cougars not only control their own population sizes without the help of hunters, but preferentially select sick and infirm prey animals, thereby controlling the spread of diseases such as deadly chronic wasting disease – a disease that is quickly advancing westward in the Rocky Mountain States and threatening to ravage deer and elk herds. To remove wolves from an ecosystem is analogous to inflicting an autoimmune disease on the land. So much for honoring the public trust."

This trail is in Wolf Winter & Summer range. Non native Canadian Timber wolves have been forcibly placed in colorado they are 30% larger than wolves that historically lived in Colorado. Trail users can not kill the wolves when they attach or kill their pets. Trail users can not harass or haze wolves in anyway. Trial users should not look weak, or be injured or be small (like Children). Trail users should not run because that makes them look like prey. Trail users should not ride bikes because that makes them look like prey. Trail users may defend themselves if a pack of wolves attacks them, however you must have proof that you were attacked. If attacked, you will need to defend yourself, bear spray is for bears and will not work on a pack of Wolves. A pistol or rifle will work best.

New Mexico just passed a green bill, without being voted on. The govenor is screwing the people, and Polis is following with the same plan. You all need to look into what they are wanting to pass and how it'll effect everyone higher electrical bills, higher taxes.

My thoughts as well Dirk.