Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. --Arthur Schopenhauer
Carter Niemeyer has murdered two wolves! As always he continues to ignore and not promote and use non lethal methods effectively along with Predator Friendly Ranching. And in the wake of more cattle depredations, this is proof that the lack of methods used in are making this situatio worse and will most likely result in more deaths in the future of Wolves!
Contact him at carter_niemeyer@fws.gov
The links and information that you should use, are these..
'Ervin's Natural Beef is a consortium of ranchers that produces grassfed beef. Their emphasis is on humane treatment of livestock and peaceful co-existence with predators. The animals are free of pesticides, antibiotics, and synthetic hormones. The ranchers are currently applying for organic certification.'
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Predator Friendly Non Lethal Methods for Ervins Grassfed Beef
http://www.ervins.com/Export6.htm
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'Predator-Friendly Wool'
http://www.loe.org/archives/970110.htm#Ranching-----------------
Lamb and Wool, a Ranch dedicated to not using lethal methods against predators
http://www.lambandwool.com/-----------------
Predator Friendly Fact Sheet
http://www.heartofthewolf.org/factsheet.html----------------
'Wolf Friendly Beef' - http://www.acfnewsource.org/environment/wolf_friendly_beef.html
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'Predator-Friendly Wool'
http://www.loe.org/archives/970110.htm#Ranching------------------
'Some ranchers see 'predator friendly' as selling point with consumers' By BECKY BOHRER
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/07/18/news/regional/1aee40fb0504 f55687256ed4005f50ec.txt---------------
Crying wolf over predator attacks http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996428
And here is the original article.
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Wolves kill three calves in county
by Todd Adams
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Three calves have been killed by lone wolves in Custer County since February 7 – two on separate ranches near Mackay and one on a ranch near Clayton.
The wolves apparently are younger animals that have dispersed from their packs. Federal officials do not suspect either the Copper Basin Pack for killing the Mackay-area calves or the Buffalo Ridge Pack for killing the calf in the Clayton-area.
Clayton Traps have been set for the lone Clayton-area wolf and are being checked daily. The Clayton-area calf was killed on private ranch property the night of February 14 and discovered the next day, said Rick Williamson, a wolf management specialist for Wildlife Services.
The Buffalo Ridge Pack was located upriver from Clayton by signals from radio collars, so is not suspected in the depredation, Williamson said. Williamson did a necropsy on the calf and confirmed it was a wolf kill on February 15.
Mackay After a wolf or wolves killed two calves on separate ranches near Mackay last week, a government agent shot one of the responsible wolves but a possible second wolf had not been captured at press time.
Carter Niemeyer, wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Boise, said one calf was killed the night of Monday, February 7 and the second on Tuesday, February 8. Federal policy prohibits Niemeyer and Williamson from identifying the ranchers who lost calves.
Niemeyer said he authorized lethal control or removal of two suspected wolves. The first wolf was “howled out” of a cattle herd, then shot on February 9. On February 10, a second animal, presumably a wolf, escaped from a foothold trap before it could be shot.
Williamson said there have been no other calves killed in the Mackay area, and wolf traps have been removed for now.
The shot wolf was identified as number B-193, a gray male who dispersed from the Buffalo Ridge Pack. He was radio-collared two years ago, said Niemeyer, but his collar was no longer working when he was shot. The wolf had dispersed from Buffalo Ridge Pack’s territory along the Salmon River canyon upriver from Challis. Niemeyer said B-193 and the main Buffalo Ridge Pack had been located on January 11 near Clayton.
Niemeyer said a necropsy of the first wolf showed fresh calf meat in his stomach. The two calf-killing wolves were hanging out in the territory of the Copper Basin Pack, but none of those wolves were involved in the recent depredations, Niemeyer said. However, the Copper Basin Pack killed at least four and injured two calves in the Copper Basin area last fall, he said. Ranchers lost more livestock in that area, but the six calves were the only confirmed wolf depredations.
Elk depredations A property owner in the French Creek area told The Messenger last week that the Buffalo Ridge Pack had killed three elk calves on his property on three separate nights.
The depredations occurred just downriver from the Yankee Fork Ranger station.
http://www.challismessenger.com/newspgs/0217wolves.html
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