Diane K. Boyd
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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So I always thought these wolves were denizens of the wilderness and they would only live where it was incredibly wild. And they've come to show us that's not true. They will live wherever we'll tolerate them. And that could be it. I mean, there were wolves in Texas not that long ago, red wolves. So they were here, but, you know, they're just not tolerated.
But of course, it's a biased survey because it's by San Francisco. So it's not. Yeah.
If I was a mountain lion living near San Francisco, I'd be eating poodles and chihuahuas and cats. Absolutely. Easy prey. There are a lot of them. Nobody's going to shoot you in California. It's illegal. It's a charmed life until you get run over on the freeway.
That's interesting. I didn't know that in Texas.
Really?
It's amazing they're still hanging on.
Oh.
Thank you, Jamie. You're the best. You see the white triangle on the chest? Yeah, yes. That indicates to me it's a younger wolf because the pups can be born. Yeah, can you wind that back again? Yeah, thanks.
Awesome.
So the white chevron pups, younger wolves have that. And as they get older, like the rest of us, they get gray. And that doesn't stand out so much. So it would probably be a yearling, maybe a two-year-old wolf.
I know for a fact that there was a wild wolf that was tracked going down through central and to Bakersfield. I don't know if it was black or gray, but I know there was one.
No, it's not. My friend Kent Loudon does the wolf work in California. He's a biologist, used to be in Montana and Idaho. And no, they're making a comeback. I think there's six packs now and they're doing really well.
Northern California. Yeah. And there's lots of conflict because they can't, I'm pretty darn sure, they cannot kill the wolves that are killing livestock. So it's set up for a conflict. Kind of like in California. Right. They're having some management flexibility in California. I mean in Colorado. But-
So far, I mean, they just now, so a pair of wolves that they reintroduced found each other and made a pack, and they had the only litter of pups known to be in Colorado this year. I believe both of those wolves... came from Oregon and they both had livestock killing experience before they chose them to release, which is really unfortunate.
So the dilemma was, okay, they did okay until people started calving. And now there's little calves on the ground and all the wolves are coming in and they're starting to kill calves and then they might kill a heifer or something. And anyway... They're killing livestock. So what do you do? You've got a male and a female and a litter of pups, and they have started a history of killing livestock.
What do you do with them? The slight majority of people in Colorado, the ballot box initiative stuff, want to see all the worms protected, and a slight minority, it's like 49 1⁄2 to 50 1⁄2 or something, want them removed. And the people in the middle are trying to figure out what to do. So they went and captured them and put them in a holding facility for a while.
Then they're going to release them later. Well, you still have a problem.
They will probably likely to continue killing livestock.
In Montana, there is, I presume, yeah, there is in Colorado, yeah. They're reimbursed, but as I've worked with ranchers and they said, I didn't raise my cows for your damn wolves to kill them. I don't care. I don't want the money. I just don't want the wolves here. And sometimes when you're working with a rancher community, that's the only common...
denominator you have is you're out there because you don't want their cows killed because then wolves have to get killed they don't want their cows killed because they didn't they raised them for all these generations they have a genetic a good pool genetically they are invested so you have the same that's the same common goal and you might have different reasons to come to that goal but that's how you work with people you know how it is yeah there's always a common denominator
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