More CO cattle wolf slaying

[sndmn11]

Wolf attack results in another cow dead in Colorado, second cow maimed | OutThere Colorado

Two more cows have been attacked by wolves in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

www.outtherecolorado.com

I am sort of wondering how long it will be before neighbors put a person in their herds so they can have a claim to defending a human life.

 

[Marble]

I'm too lazy to look it up, but I wonder if the law preventing the shooting of wolves is a federal law or state. If it's a state charge, there is no way a rancher gets convicted in Jackson County.

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[Skerhunter]

Obviously a state law.

 

[sndmn11]

I'm too lazy to look it up, but I wonder if the law preventing the shooting of wolves is a federal law or state. If it's a state charge, there is no way a rancher gets convicted in Jackson County.

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This makes it sounds like state https://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/CON-Wolf-Management.aspx

I agree, on the comment about Jackson, and I am sure one could not even try and end up with a good bank roll of gofundme donors.

 

[BwanaKubwa]

It'll be interesting when there are little calves around. It's not going to be great for the ranchers

 

[Wvroach]

I imagine people will start taking it into their own hands. They should have no qualms about it what's legal and what's right are often different things.

 

[BwanaKubwa]

A lot of ranchers talk about smoking a pack a day but it's hard to shoot what you don't see

 

[justin davis]

Sad thing is liberals see no problem with this. I often hear “they have to eat too.” Etc

I also hear the response of people who say “well that’s part of living in the country.” And “the state reimburses them so it’s ok.”

The fact is The state reimburses the ranchers but they only reimburse 50% of market value.

You can’t reason with these people.

Vote red is all I can say.

 

[BigDog00]

I would imagine the ranchers are already "managing" them. Wolves have been in the North Park area since ~2007ish (if not earlier). I have a hard time believing they are just now starting to kill livestock. I'm sure its been happening for awhile.

 

[Btaylor]

If a feller had a mind to study up on gator baiting, he might find something of use.

 

[roadrunner]

Kill the wolf

 

[silasbowhunter]

I would imagine the ranchers are already "managing" them. Wolves have been in the North Park area since ~2007ish (if not earlier). I have a hard time believing they are just now starting to kill livestock. I'm sure its been happening for awhile.

I’m sure it was happening but I bet the state biologists wouldn’t admit it was wolf kills. Probably “lions” and “coyotes”


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[260madman]

All this action and people voted to reintroduce them.

Feels. Feels everywhere. Or dumbasses. Dumbasses everywhere.

 

[WV Mountaineer]

I truly refuse to believe ranchers allow gooberment policy to affect their bottom line like this. It’s been proven reimbursement of cattle loss isn’t sustainable to any profit driven operation. It didn’t work with the Yellowstone reintroduction and, won’t work for protecting wolves in Colorado.

It won’t take long before those half of value payments, coupled with the small amount of kill incidents properly placed on the wolves, before ranchers and their hands simply even the playing fields.

Wolves are smart. People are smarter. While the vast majority of hunters will have zero affect on wolf numbers even if their was a season, the economics of it insist that the rancher living the nightmare will do what they deem necessary to survive.

I’ve never met a big time rancher who didn’t maintain a breeding herd of stock. The exponential loss of losing a good mommy cow and it’s off spring for the next 3-5 years is quite the motivator when the check book gets balanced.

I’d say the state better get busy with an alternative option for those ranchers setting patiently by begging for the right to make a living. Before the ranchers realize in doing so, they indeed are going to suffer catastrophic losses that will never be realized. Much less compensated.

 

[Wrench]

They'll quit getting into the ranches bloody sponges and "sweet meat" after a while.

 

[RyanT26]

Maybe just start euthanizing your hamstrung and injured cattle with strychnine. Things could maybe work themselves out then.

 

[Scorpion]

This is unfortunate for the ranchers, hopefully they are able to mitigate this going forward. No one is coming to help, it’s up to them to manage the situation.

 

[Like2hunt]

I know lots of ranchers that if they were out working on their farms and seen a wolf then it sure wouldn’t be making it back home. We already kill every single yote we see and wolves wouldn’t have any exception for 99% of ranchers. It’s already hard to making a living as a rancher, no need to loose thousands more when a bullet will take care of the problem. If I was out doing cows and seen one nobody but me and the wolf would know

 

[S-3 ranch]

Where it’s at , it’s pretty remote and probably some guy leasing state & federal grass
“”Commonly known as “North Park,” Jackson County is a high, isolated, inter-mountain basin that lies in the northernmost tier of Colorado counties. In geographic terms, a “park” is an open area surrounded by mountains.””
looks like some place cattle should not be maybe

 

[DenverCountryBoy]

Where it’s at , it’s pretty remote and probably some guy leasing state & federal grass
“”Commonly known as “North Park,” Jackson County is a high, isolated, inter-mountain basin that lies in the northernmost tier of Colorado counties. In geographic terms, a “park” is an open area surrounded by mountains.””
looks like some place cattle should not be maybe

Livestock is not on government leased land this time of year.