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By steve gilbert on 01-08-13 @ 7:43 pm
I’m sorry Mr. Aasheim has to be the mouthpiece for an agency that does not have any data that supports his claims. FWP has no valid wolverine data that could possibly lead them to suggest
that it’s ok to trap any number of wolverines in Montana.
Remember, this is the agency that raised the daily bag limit on sage grouse in certain southwest
Montana hunting districts where actual data on declining sage grouse populations supported
completely closing the sage grouse season. FWP’s reason…‘if we raise the bag limit, the Fish and
Wildlife Service won’t think there’s any problem with sage grouse populations.’ FWP does not
manage wildlife, they manage the cash drawer and do not want any agency anywhere to tell them
how to do it.
So they continue to support trapping of wolverines and lynx, want to give hunters a chance to kill a
grizzly bear, take a peregrine falcon from its nest, eat a west slope cutthroat or bull trout and shoot
a mule deer buck on its winter range when it’s in the rut.
This agency does not begin to do its legally mandated job to protect and enhance wildlife and
wildlife habitat. Congratulations to Judge Sherlock for his decision and to the conservation groups
and the Western Environmental Law Center who brought this case before him.
By Kokanee on 01-09-13 @ 1:10 am
So what you are saying is FWP needs this trivial amount of cash generated by the very lucrativewolverine season. WELC is no better than blackmail or con artists that fleece millions of
dollars from taxpayers on frivalous lawsuits brought about for no other reason than to tie up
reasonable science from all govt. agencies that do not agree with worshipping animals. Just
another ill founded comment from a bleeding heart no nothing,I will take FWP’s word over someone
who has an agenda to abolish trapping and hunting as we know it.
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