01/22/2024
Well the wolves surely have arrived in the Pinedale /Claysprings area. Folks have been seeing them for the last few years. Two were seen walking across my pasture in Pinedale this last week. A number of my neighbors have seen them in the area and have heard them.
So the wolves have spread way out of the original wolf recovery area to the west, south, North and East. Just what the wolf recovery folks wanted. They are pushing to have over 750 wolves from Western Arizona to Eastern New Mexico.
In the mean time the financial losses to ranchers and farmers are mounting, thank goodness for the compensation board in Arizona, but that still does not cover the complete cost of the wolf program for those affected by their presence.
It is nice to think about the wolves running wild and free through the forest but if you are a hunter, rancher or citizen living around the wolves it is not fun nor is it good for the environment.
The impacts are real and devastating.
Here is a picture of one of the wolves eating a dead cow elk on the side of the road just 4 miles west of Pinedale road on the 260.
So be ready a wolf is coming to your area in the near future. Understand you cannot harm or disturb the wolves at any time for any reason because it is against the law. So we are left to figure out how to distract them from our herds, use range riders or in come cases Livestock guardian Dogs will keep the wolves away.
AGAIN I WANT TO STRESS YOU CANNOT HARM THESE WOLVES IT IS AGAINST THE LAW.
If you are concerned for your safety and the safety of your animals contact the Arizona Department of Agriculture, the Arizona Game and Fish Department and they can give you helpful hints on what to do and how to live in wolf country.
Welcome to the new rural America where APEX Predators take precedent over human beings and their way of life. Just ask the farmers in California about the Spike Dace fish, the Ranchers in Northern Colorado about the wolf program (These are timber wolves they are introducing to Colorado), Ranchers and farmers in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon about the Wolves, Grizzly Bears... Oh by the way if you have not heard the radical Environmentalist want to re-introduce the Grizzly Bear to the White Mountains in the Mt. Baldy wilderness area.......
Have a great day America. I hope that common sense will be the future of our country, if not agriculture as we know it will cease to exist in America, the greatest food producing place in the world. I believe that producing food in a sustainable way is very important to the survival of the human species.
There has got to be a way to protect and preserve our ability to grow food in a cost effective way and at the same time protect endangered species, right now we are headed for a train wreck and I hope people of good will can find a way to make this work. It is in everyone's best interest to make this happen. The technology and science of agriculture is awesome, so let's hope the Universities and Land Grant Schools can help us solve this problem.