One way or another, it's past time for Rocky Mountain wolves to be delisted
I got to experience something the other day I should never take for granted.
I was driving the family minivan along a mountain two-lane, returning home from a daylong meeting in another town. Suddenly, the driver of the SUV in front of me piled on his brakes. I followed suit, and pulled to a stop behind him."Probably a critter getting ready to cross the road" I thought to myself. It's not at all unusual here in Wyoming.
Uttering a surprised expletive, I scrambled out of the van as quickly as I could. The animal went tearing up the slope in loping strides. By the time I got my diminutive camera ready and snapped a few shots, it was too far away for really good photos. But at least I got some. A few minutes later, I hit our home number on speed dial and yelled into my poor wife's ear. "Honey, I just saw a wolf! "
For nearly two decades, wolves have never been far from my mind, or the minds of many who live in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. In the mid 1990s, I had graduated recently from the University of Montana and started my career in journalism. An issue that had been building for the past few years had blown wide open.It was going to happen. The wolves were coming back. It was then that a seed population of about 60 wolves, captured in Canada, was set loose to repopulate Yellowstone National Park and parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
I was in a small Montana town, where much of the economy rested on cattle ranching. And, like me, nearly all of the men, and a good number of the women, looked forward to hunting season each fall. So, the cataclysmic predictions I began hearing came as no surprise. Cattle and sheep ranchers would be devastated, people were saying. The game herds would disappear, and hunting would cease. The federal government and radical environmentalists were using wolves to drive us off the land.
I was dubious about those assertions; and, frankly excited about the master predators returning, helping to make our wild country truly wild. Still, I mostly kept my mouth shut and went on about my business.
Stories of cattle ranches being hit by wolves started to make the news. And as devastating as some of those attacks could be, they were also isolated. As a whole, the cattle industry barely felt the effect of wolves. Likewise, I started to hear some fellow hunters, especially those who sought elk in the high country, complain about disappearing game. Again, this might have been a function of location. Certain herds were knocked back, to be sure, but only in specific areas. Also, there could be an argument made that some of those herds -- such as the one frequenting Yellowstone National Park -- had gotten grossly over-populated. Overall, the elk herds in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho were growing. As they still are.
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I was in a small Montana town, where much of the economy rested on cattle ranching. And, like me, nearly all of the men, and a good number of the women, looked forward to hunting season each fall. So, the cataclysmic predictions I began hearing came as
As well, Poummer does not see the advantage of the high price for cattle. “Prices may be up, but so are commodities, so with input cost, we're not doing any better,” he said. Poummer also regretted that “mom and pop” ranches and farms are being pushed
A comparability study of wolves denning in calf/yearling core areas show that five family ranchers lost 653 more head of cattle than before the wolf was introduced, with a monetary loss of $381198. Two of the five family ranchers went out of business
These include profitable products like African oil palm and cattle ranching. The oil palm -- used increasingly in biofuels -- experienced a boom during the mid-2000s, along with massive land purchases, until a blight destroyed most of Tumaco's crop.
Tom Reyes said he misses the good ol' days of Oak Park, when it wasn't unusual to see cattle or sheep roaming freely near the house he bought in 1966. "I remember when I had just planted our front lawn and three of the Jordan Ranch horses got loose and
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The expansion of next-generation wireless broadband envisioned by the T-Mobile and AT&T merger, for example, is critical for the next stage of rural America’s evolution and success. It will allow ranchers, farmers, and all rural residents who have been traditionally underserved to finally gain access to the best that mobile broadband has to offer, including faster and more reliable connections. We strongly encourage the Federal Communications Commission to support these developments as an investment in both the current and future generations of agricultural producers and small communities across rural America.
The cattlemen’s group has had a lot to say about telecommunications issues, especially mergers and acquisitions. It was cited by Verizon as a supporter of its merger with Alltel in 2008, signed a joint letter in 2008 from industry-connected Connected Nation for a broadband plan compatible with the interests of the nation’s largest cable and phone companies, wrote a letter to the FCC opposing Net Neutrality in 2009, and submitted two pages of comments in May favoring the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.
Apparently there is plenty of free time on the ranch to ponder billion dollar telecommunications mergers.
The argument from the group is that permitting mergers and blocking open net policies like Net Neutrality will convince carriers to provide enhanced service in rural areas where cattle ranches predominate. But facts in evidence illustrate how wrong-headed that argument is:
Verizon’s merger with Alltel has done nothing to bring its LTE network to rural America. Verizon is focusing LTE upgrades on the markets where it makes the most business sense, and that does not include rural Texas or Oklahoma; The National Broadband Plan has directed stimulus funding for rural projects that are most likely to reach their ranch members — wireless ISPs and rural DSL. The cattlemen’s group has nothing to say about either provider; Net Neutrality and the policies of an open and free Internet have no real impact on rural broadband deployment. The same companies refusing to provide service yesterday are still refusing to provide service today, and that includes completely exempted wireless providers; T-Mobile’s urban-suburban focus is a mainstay of its business plan.Facts On Cattle Ranching - Bookshelf
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