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Srbphoto
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Kennewick wa
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WOLF KILLS: Twisp man pleads guilty in conspiracy
Tri-City Herald
SPOKANE (AP) — A Twisp rancher pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to kill a protected gray wolf and send its pelt to a friend in Canada.
The case stemmed from a 2008 report of a bloody package that had been left with a private shipping company in Omak. A suspicious employee called police, who opened the package and discovered a fresh wolf hide.
No public hunting of wolves is allowed in Washington.
William D. White, 62, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to charges of conspiracy to take an endangered species, conspiracy to transport endangered species and unlawful importation of wildlife.
The latter charge stemmed from a moose White brought back to the Methow Valley from Alberta, Canada, where he hunted illegally on a local man’s tag.
As part of the federal plea, White also agreed to plead guilty to two state charges, including hunting bears with a dog.
White declined comment Wednesday. His attorney, Bevan Maxey, said White was simply trying to protect his livestock.
“I think the issues point out the inherent difficulties livestock owners are presented with relating to wolves,” Maxey told The Spokesman-Review newspaper.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Ohms said the investigation showed that White, and his family, engaged in a pattern of illegal game hunting.
White’s son, Tom White, faces charges of unlawfully taking an endangered species in the killing of two wolves. Tom White’s wife, Erin White, faces charges of false labeling of wildlife for export.
Ohms said Erin White was sending the wolf pelt back to the hunting buddy in Canada who had helped William White get the moose.
The wolves were from the Methow Valley’s Lookout Pack, the first documented wolf pack in Washington in several decades.
Wolves were removed from the Endangered Species list in the eastern one-third of Washington state last year, but they remain a federally protected species in the rest of the state.
Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/04/04/1892612/wolf-kills-twisp-man-pleads-guilty.html#storylink=cpy
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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Blue states= cousin marriages are legal.
That's because it's much more rare in the blue states. So there is less need to criminalize it.
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kiwi
Trad climber
Bozeman, MT
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Apr 22, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
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haven't read through all this completely so excuse me if it's already been posted (seems like the last couple hundred posts have just been a shitshow).
The montana wolf population grew 15% this year even with the hunts, not sure about ID and WY, but seems that the hunts are not all that terrible (at least in MT). I don't know about getting attacked by wolves, but I've been hiking solo in the bridgers for the last month or so and have no fear of getting jumped, seems that any wolf is probably more afraid of you then you are of it.
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saa
climber
not much of a
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Nov 30, 2012 - 02:08pm PT
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Sorry to bump a sore subject.
I d like to talk , offline, to wolf people, bear ladies of YNP , others who reseArch cougars or puma and whatever it is in latin.
Alex bear woman of the ditch please get in touch. Cocconniss.
Can t find your email
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Apr 26, 2013 - 01:16pm PT
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I have wool gloves, thus all wolves must die!!!!1111
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slevin
Trad climber
NYC, NY
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Let's simply stop the farm subsidies and the ranchers will go extinct themselfs. It would be cheaper for everyone this way too and we would have more wildlife and land to play on.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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No one here's getting riled up Ron until you can show a photo or 2 of polypro being killed or even just torn up. For most folks here, it isn't until they have their direct interests threatened that they will care.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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During the height of the "Wolf Wars" in Alaska, in the early nineties, as activists every bit as rabid as the wolf population (yes they were overpopulated and many went rabid) poured into the state crying wolf for the poor critters lest the state biologists continue their areial culling campaign. A half page add appeared in the Fairbanks Daily Miner showing a masked man with a cocked pistol to the head of a wolf-the caption read end the tourism boycott and send grandma up to visit or the wolf gets it.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Aug 20, 2013 - 07:32pm PT
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less than 2,000 moose left in the whole state of WY thanks in large part to wolves. Here in VT i see way more Coyote sign than deer sign the last 5 years. not for killing wolves per say but not for protecting them either. tough call...
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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Aug 20, 2013 - 07:37pm PT
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What Ron is not telling you is that the wolves did not kill 176 sheep. Maybe a few, but the rest killed themselves.
Because sheep are stupid.
If we have to choose between wolves and sheep, keep the wolves.
Ron's article:
Many of the animals died from suffocation, since some apparently fell in front of the rest, resulting in a large pile-up.
“This was a rather unique situation,” said Grimm. “Most of the time they don’t pile up like this, but the wolves got them running.”
Only one animal seems to have been eaten in the attack, according to the Siddoway release.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Aug 20, 2013 - 08:55pm PT
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The montana wolf population grew 15% this year even with the hunts, not sure about ID and WY,
During the 2011-2012 season the Idaho Wolf "harvest" was 379 animals out of a estimated population of 746 in the state.
312 wolves were killed in the 2012-2013 season.
Many believe the actual population is more than double estimates of Idaho Fish & Game. A significant portion of the wolf harvest is brought about by trappers.
Over 40,000 wolf tags were sold (2012-2013) but the chances of filling the tag are less than 1%.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 20, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
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Stinkeye: You don't have a clue, except for your own cluelessness.
Heidi & I are selling carbon offsets.
We have no children, and suffer for the environment without ownership or use of sheep, cattle, horses, goats, RV's, motorboats, or jet-skis, ATV's, snowmobiles, planes, or trains, and worse yet: only own one house.
We currently hold valid-title to carbon offsets for 596 climber-daze.
Please contact me for address to send your payments for climbing-damage offsets. $50.00 per person per daze.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 21, 2013 - 12:03am PT
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Tioga! Owning a house is not good, but if you camp, there are carbon-heavy uses of fires or stoves, and possible carbon-heavy visits by regulatory officials.
Of course: if you really love the environment and wolves------the very best course of action, is to go into wolf country and cut your throat.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Aug 21, 2013 - 02:10am PT
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The large sheep kill near Dillon in 2009 totaled 122...
The government would usually re-imberse the owner $350 per animal but the Dillon animals were "prime breeding stock"(all bucks) and the reimbursement was said to be much larger.
Trappers shot the four wolves reported to have slaughtered the sheep near Dillon...
Both Dillon and Victor are a scant distance from my cabin. The wolf population is waning in other parts of the state...but, here, in the northeast corner of sothern Idaho, we have new packs migrating from Yellowstone every year.
The wolves have decimated the moose and coyote populations in Island Park.
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