EDiS – Environments/Habitats - #18 - “Tundra/Tiaga”
The high slopes of the Cascades Mountains, though cold and snowy, are not Tundra. They are, rather, closer to Tiaga. They are home to some of Washington state's sixteen Grey Wolf packs. As of this week, the eleven members of the Profanity Peak pack, including four pups, are being trapped and killed out of existence. It seems some cattle, which are stupid and follow their stomachs, (and which, incidentally, can be fenced and contained) wandered onto government forest land, home to the Profanity Peak wolves. Wolves, which are opportunistic feeders and cannot be contained, ate some of them. The Colville ranchers who own the cattle have something the wolves do not – money. The deaths of the 3 cows and one calf (which would have been consumed eventually by humans, anyway) are enough for pressure to be brought to bear on the feds, who are now to eliminating an entire pack of re-emergent Grey wolves, in retaliation, and to placate the ranchers.
I have so much anger and shame over this. When will stuff like this ever end? Will we ever learn?
The high slopes of the Cascades Mountains, though cold and snowy, are not Tundra. They are, rather, closer to Tiaga. They are home to some of Washington state's sixteen Grey Wolf packs. As of this week, the eleven members of the Profanity Peak pack, including four pups, are being trapped and killed out of existence. It seems some cattle, which are stupid and follow their stomachs, (and which, incidentally, can be fenced and contained) wandered onto government forest land, home to the Profanity Peak wolves. Wolves, which are opportunistic feeders and cannot be contained, ate some of them. The Colville ranchers who own the cattle have something the wolves do not – money. The deaths of the 3 cows and one calf (which would have been consumed eventually by humans, anyway) are enough for pressure to be brought to bear on the feds, who are now to eliminating an entire pack of re-emergent Grey wolves, in retaliation, and to placate the ranchers.
I have so much anger and shame over this. When will stuff like this ever end? Will we ever learn?
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