Nice to know that when push comes to shove there are voices of reason to be reckoned with inside state wildlife agencies.
This is all common sense stuff we already knew, but it’s good to hear it from the mouths of state wildlife agency biologists…
Predator management by state wildlife agency biologists questioned
I recently had encounters with three state wildlife agency biologists. All of them were quite open with their criticisms of their agencies predator policies. I can’t reveal their names and I will change a few details to hide their identities.
The first biologist told me there was no reason to kill predators. He said it only creates greater social chaos which in turn leads to more unnecessary killing. He told me that increasing the kill of predators by hunters—whether cougars or wolves—seldom reduced conflicts. If it’s good habitat, the vacuum created by killing a cougar or a wolf pack will soon be filled by immigrants. So in the end livestock operators have…
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