I agree. 

And...I never heard of that case, but I am glad he finally got arrested for animal abuse.  Ever since the Magnum case (I can post this in another thread if people agree it is okay), there has been a lot of people trying to push for more penalties against animal abuse.  Mind you, this is directed toward more domestic species, but still...




Sincerely,
ResplendentSeraphim

Ok..this is a plane not helicopter, but some do it from copters as well.

WARNING: This shows wolves being hunted by aircraft. Extremely disturbing!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr183lk-wQk

This was back in 1992 or 93. He was a doctor in Salina. I was working at what was then the Sirlion Stockade in Abilene. I believe it is shut down now. I don't know whatever happened in the case. My friend who was working in Salina told me about the arrest. I hope they fried him personally. He wasn't the nicest person I ever waited on.

More proof that we are taking over areas where wildlife once lived, here's a news story that took place right here in Downtown.

Coyote Survives Three-Story Fall Downtown
WHO-TV
April 4, 2008--Construction site break-ins are all too common these days, but typically the intruders are after tools or metal. Some metro workers say they've never seen an intruder quite like the one they found at a downtown site Friday morning.

It's hard to say just who was more startled on the site at East Sixth and Locust -- Zak Banks and his fellow workers, or the coyote who somehow found its way up to a future parking ramp and then down inside its elevator shaft.

"We came back up looking for him and we walked over here and looked down the stairs and then looked over and there he was, down there running around trying to get out," Banks said. "We tried to stick a plank down for him to get up but he wasn't having it.

Nobody seems to know just how the coyote got inside. A tall chain link fence surrounds the entire site. Word of the trapped animal spread quickly around the site and soon animal control was on its way. "He was shaking real bad at first but then kind of calmed down. Everybody from the job was over looking at him, taking pictures," Banks said.

Officers managed to wrangle the coyote, pulling it out with a rope and long poles. Even after the three story fall, the coyote only suffered a broken leg. She was taken to Iowa State's wildlife clinic where she had surgery Friday afternoon. Vets hope to release her back into the wild soon.

Source: msnbc.msn.com

I think it is good that gray wolves are off the list, but also be a bad thing too. When I was younger, red wolves were been reintroduce back into the wild in a county near where I live in North Carolina. The wolves were starving and one large male left that area to the woods around where I lived at that time. The wolf killing one dog and left another one seriously injured. After that just about everyone was hunting for it.  It is always a chance that this could happen with gray wolves too if they run out of food.

I never really saw the point in shooting animals to protect life stock.

I was raised on an Ostrich farm. All my dad had to buy to keep predators away (animal and human for that matter. lol) were some well trained guard dogs. We had Dobermans, but I am sure German/Belgian shephards would be well up to the task as well.



Kind regards,
Wilhelm

Any of the working class of dogs will do this. It's bred into them. The problem lies in that most farmers don't leave the dogs with the herds at night anymore. Which makes no sense to me as this was 1/2 of their original purpose. The other 1/2 being to corral and drive the herds. Simply spending a few hundred dollars on a couple of good old fashioned sheperds or any other working breed, would save most if not all of this fighting and killing.