Wolf at the Door

Last week an unspeakably horrible crime was perpetrated by functionaries of the US Fish and Wildlife Service upon the residents of Catron County, New Mexico. (That’s in the USA, by the way. The residents of Catron County are Americans.)

On April 24, so-called “biologists” working for the USFWS Southwest Regional Office (some dude named Dr. Benjamin Tuggle is Misdirector) dumped a pack of Mexican wolves into the backyards of American citizens. Among them were human-habituated “3-strike” wolves (killed 3 livestock), one of which had attacked a human. That particular wolf, F924, is pregnant and human-habituated, and well-known to be a livestock killer.

The dumping act was deliberate. Three days before, at a hearing of the Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Oversight Committee public meeting held April 21, in Bayard, NM, there were angry confrontations between residents and members of the Center for Biological Diversity from Tucson, AZ, who staged a disruptive demonstration to prevent the meeting from even being held.

The meeting was held anyway. One point the residents made vigorously is that the 3-strike rule is three too many. The 3-strike rule is otherwise known as Standard Operating Procedure 13, or SOP13, of the current Management and Control of Mexican Wolves Plan, the official doc that governs USFWS actions.

Three days later the USFWS deliberately, with malice aforethought and full realization that they were violating their own rule, released the deadly, human-habituated predators into the “wild”, i.e. the backyards of the residents of Catron County. To add some bloody irony, the human attacked by wolf F924 was a USFWS “biologist” who deliberately and illegally did not report the incident as required under SOP13.

For more information about these federal crimes, and about the Mexican Wolf Program and its effects on American citizens, we highly recommend Wolf Crossing (here). In fact, we like Wolf Crossing so much we are adding it to the SOS Forests blogrole.

Wolf Crossing is authentic. It is written and compiled by resident ranch women and men, but mostly the women. One in particular. But check it out yourself. Be sure to page back to at least mid-April to get the whole story. Do not miss this post in particular (here) entitled Wolf Kills Cows, Wolf Bites Human, Wolf Goes to Town, Wolf Released to Kill Again.

We’ve been waiting and searching for a good wolf site. Wolves are a problem in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, the Lake States, New England, Canada, and Alaska, as well as New Mexico and Arizona. Wolf Crossing originates and concentrates on NM, but is actively extending its reach to Canadian wolf issues, too.

Another excellent wolf site is WolvesGoneWild (here), also from New Mexico. We are adding WolvesGoneWild to our blogrole, too. WGW throws sparks with artistic style. We like that. Cowgirls rope us in.

On April 26, two days after the wolves were released, the Catron County Commission enacted an Ordinance that “provides procedures for the take of problem wolves which cause imminent danger to humans, including children or other defenseless persons, domestic animals and/or livestock” (see here). They also demanded that the 3-strike wolves be removed immediately. (Removal does not necessarily mean hunted down and shot dead. Life in captivity for the killer wolves would satisfy the residents.)

Immediately thereafter the same eco-Nazis who tried to block public testimony at a public meeting filed an Intent to Sue Catron County for their Ordinance (see here). Eco-litigious wacko groups the Forest Guardians, the Center for Biological Diversity, Sinapu, and the Rewilding Institute seem to think the courts will remedy what their anti-democracy pro-anarchy, disruption demonstration hijinks didn’t. They might be right, the Federal Court system being what it is: pro-forest holocaust, pro-baby brain sucking, pro-killer predator in your backyard kind of dudes and dudettes.

Can you imagine deliberately putting a killer predator, inured to humans, in somebody’s yard? What kind of human being would do such a thing to their fellow persons? What kind of sick-twitch criminal thugs and monsters have taken over our Federal land management agencies?

We will examine these questions in detail in our next post.