A bump upward in Wyoming’s wolf population means the number of animals that will be targeted in the coming hunting season is climbing, trends that carry over to Jackson Hole.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department released its wolf-hunting proposal for the 2020 season this week. In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the agency has increased its quota by 50%, from 34 to 51 wolves.
How very sad. To think that the Tetons and Yellowstone were my favorite place on earth and Wyoming , the state that I was the most proud of up until O6 was killed. I now have a grandson, and I never would have imagined that taking him to Wyoming would not be my first dream . Summers in Wyoming are memories of a place that has proven to be very different that what a younger self believed it was. Humans can take a beautiful landscape and make it far too sad to be beautiful. Chronic wasting , the Mustang tragedy.. cows and cows and nothing but cows. Wyoming, even Yellowstone is nothing but a giant sad cattle ranch.
Human memory is a strange thing. Bad experiences, with time passing, become “adventures”.
Good experiences, with time, become embellished with rainbows, sugar crystals and marshmallows.
No one, I repeat, no one wants the destruction of our natural wonders. Cattle grazing is one way the federal government takes in revenue to support the parks effort. Everyone wants clean water, clean air and open spaces. The real pressure on our wild environments comes from city dwellers’ continually expanding their boundaries and raising property taxes. Cows are a transient phenomena. Concrete roads and buildings tend to be generationally permanent and difficult to rehab once constructed.
When I was a boy, we would ride along a road heading out of town that had meadows and fields on both sides. In the misty mornings you could see deer, birds and yes, cows in those fields. Now, there are multi-storied office buildings, a huge shopping mall and that same road has become a six-lane freeway with two-lane feeder (access) roads on either side.
I expect the deer will never return to those areas in my or my great grandson’s lifetimes.
Those ranchers and farmers sold their land to developers because they could not pay the ever-increasing taxes. They decided to take the money and move elsewhere because they were tired of fighting the government. They decided to sell when the fathers and grandfathers died and the tax bill came due.
We should all think about the reasons things change and what we need to do to stop the negative changes.
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How very sad. To think that the Tetons and Yellowstone were my favorite place on earth and Wyoming , the state that I was the most proud of up until O6 was killed. I now have a grandson, and I never would have imagined that taking him to Wyoming would not be my first dream . Summers in Wyoming are memories of a place that has proven to be very different that what a younger self believed it was. Humans can take a beautiful landscape and make it far too sad to be beautiful. Chronic wasting , the Mustang tragedy.. cows and cows and nothing but cows. Wyoming, even Yellowstone is nothing but a giant sad cattle ranch.
Human memory is a strange thing. Bad experiences, with time passing, become “adventures”.
Good experiences, with time, become embellished with rainbows, sugar crystals and marshmallows.
No one, I repeat, no one wants the destruction of our natural wonders. Cattle grazing is one way the federal government takes in revenue to support the parks effort. Everyone wants clean water, clean air and open spaces. The real pressure on our wild environments comes from city dwellers’ continually expanding their boundaries and raising property taxes. Cows are a transient phenomena. Concrete roads and buildings tend to be generationally permanent and difficult to rehab once constructed.
When I was a boy, we would ride along a road heading out of town that had meadows and fields on both sides. In the misty mornings you could see deer, birds and yes, cows in those fields. Now, there are multi-storied office buildings, a huge shopping mall and that same road has become a six-lane freeway with two-lane feeder (access) roads on either side.
I expect the deer will never return to those areas in my or my great grandson’s lifetimes.
Those ranchers and farmers sold their land to developers because they could not pay the ever-increasing taxes. They decided to take the money and move elsewhere because they were tired of fighting the government. They decided to sell when the fathers and grandfathers died and the tax bill came due.
We should all think about the reasons things change and what we need to do to stop the negative changes.
Wonderful!
Here is a report that shows State Ecology Department strategies are working.
Congratulations!
Mike,
Thanks for the report!
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