Howlin'

This from the home town newspaper, The Wallowa County Chieftain, where the news is all wolves, all the time.

For those not up to speed on what's happening in the rural NW, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone Park in 1994. With plenty of food for the taking the project was succesful and packs spread in every direction as the population quickly expanded. Last month, one GPS-collared male was even tracked into northern California where the last wolf siting was in 1924. Canis lupus has settled into NE Oregon making the greens happy, the elk hunters grimace and the ranchers, whose stock provide lunch, as mad as hell. (Me? I get all three positions.)

Anyway, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation have declared their position regarding wolf introduction on their own little piece of Oregon - if the wolf comes so be it, but no thanks to purposeful reintroduction. Why? Carl Scheeler, wildlife manager for the tribes stated:

"One is an act of man, the other is an act of wolf."

Comments

[mike]

apparently they should have crossed the wolves with border collies prior to re-introduction

[DCHammer]

Love it! Then you would have had wolves who like to ride on the back of pickups.