Comments on: Letters of Support Needed for Wolf Management Bill http://www.mucc.org/2012/08/letters-of-support-needed-for-wolf-management-bill/ Defending the rights of Michigan's Hunters, Anglers and Trappers Mon, 20 May 2013 17:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: NormMackey http://www.mucc.org/2012/08/letters-of-support-needed-for-wolf-management-bill/#comment-880 NormMackey Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:37:00 +0000 http://www.mucc.org/?p=4144#comment-880 Disgusting that people are hunting these few thousand big shy dogs for sport and pleasure. We don’t usually kill dogs in the US for pleasure and have the state take a cut of the dogfighting profits because we “have to” to pay for managing the 70-80 million domesticated ones, why tolerate it being done to these canines, with double-digit percent larger brains and some abilities to live free without human interference, merely to provide someone with a pelt or a rug symbolizing the grief and loss suffered by the other members of the pack? This has to be the epitome of bad taste – I wouldn’t confront the killer, but if he should complain about Michael Vick’s alleged acts or similar things I would not be able resist pointing out that they had done worse, were displaying the fact, and ask them how the family of wolves are currently doing without the “trophy” that once helped provide the others with food, protection, and companionship.

The USA has some 70-80 million domesticated wolves. The mere handful of wild wolves could very well be treated much as the other dogs are, even though the wolves have brains that are double-digit percentages larger and have a few instincts needed to live in the wild, which people removed to fill those roles themselves. At least with something near the same consideration, not a resource to be “harvested”.

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]]> By: clearcut1 http://www.mucc.org/2012/08/letters-of-support-needed-for-wolf-management-bill/#comment-779 clearcut1 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.mucc.org/?p=4144#comment-779 Dear Representative [insert surname]:

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Concerning HB 5834 (wolves being designated as a game species) introduced by
Matt Huuki (R), I believe we need to consider more than just the voices of those who
let their hunting dogs run on state land for training purposes and during
hunting season. Frankly, I want 600 wolves in the U.P. and at least 150 in the
northern L.P. to keep the hoofed rats under control year round. Foresters are
paid to grow trees, not white-tailed deer, and we can use all of the help we can
get wrangling the white-tailed deer population back under some sort of proper
control.

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Wolves have no compunctions about taking a doe or a
small-bodied, young-of-the-year animal and they don’t give a damn about the
number of antler tines a buck might possess so long as the aforementioned tines
aren’t being stuck into the ribcage of the wolf in question. The same can’t be
said for most of us who purchase hunting licenses every autumn.

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Worry
less about wolves doing their part in the ecosystem and more about over-browsed
forests because without habitat regeneration you lose the white-tailed deer
through starvation and you lose the economic contributions of the forest
products industry. And a combined economic contribution to the state of
Michigan of over $12 billion is worthy of notice, even if [insert county name] County isn’t a
hotbed of this timber-related economic activity. Link: http://www.michiganforest.com/index.php?pid=12

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Respectfully,

[insert your name]

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Ready to copy & paste, just remove the asterisks & insert the names. Nice & simple. Did you think that we wouldn’t notice that our responses from last time had been removed when you revised this “hot button” posting? ;-)

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