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<div>For those who may not be aware of it, Defenders of Wildlife
maintains a livestock predation fund to compensate any rancher who
Fish and Wildlife Service says has lost stock to wolves. According to
information on their website, the fund has made 412 payments totaling
$536,985 to cover the loss of 514 cows, 1421 sheep and 57 "other
animals" from 1987 to 2005. One payment for cattle is listed for
Latah County.</div>
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<div>The following is from the Defenders website: <tt><font
color="#000000">
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife/new/wolves/loss.html</font></tt></div
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<div><tt><font color="#000000"> *
In the continental U.S., health issues such as respiratory problems,
digestive problems, calving complications and disease were
overwhelmingly the most significant causes of cattle death in
2005.<br>
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* Only 0.11% of all cattle losses were due to wolf
predation in 2005.<br>
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* Coyotes killed more than 22 times more cattle
than wolves killed that year.<br>
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* Domestic dogs killed almost 5 times as many
cattle, and vultures killed almost twice as many cattle as wolves did
in 2005.<br>
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* Theft was responsible for almost 5 times as many
cattle losses as were lost by wolf predation.<br>
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* Predation by coyotes was the largest cause of
sheep loss in 2005, accounting for 23% of all losses, followed by
health problems & weather-related issues.</font></tt><br>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000"> * In states with
wolf populations, an average of less than 2.5% of sheep loss was due
to predation by wolves in 2005.</font></tt></div>
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<div>I'm not going to argue that there isn't a traumatic loss when the
animals you've raised are killed by a wolf, but the economic loss is
minimized if not zeroed out by the compensation fund. Plus, when you
look at the causes of livestock loss listed above, wolves are way down
the list.</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div>At 3:03 PM -0800 1/31/07, lfalen wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I don't know that they have said that
directly, but the loss of livestock to wolves does not seem to be of a
concern or is minimized. That is the same thing.<br>
<br>
Roger<br>
-----Original message-----<br>
From: "Sunil Ramalingam" sunilramalingam@hotmail.com<br>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:37:08 -0800<br>
To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Mixed news for Wolves<br>
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> Roger,<br>
><br>
> How many people have said here they don't care about the
livelihood of<br>
> livestock producers?<br>
><br>
> Sunil<br>
><br>
><br>
> >From: lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><br>
> >Reply-To: lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><br>
> >To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Mixed news for Wolves<br>
> >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:01:20 -0800<br>
> ><br>
> >Will<br>
> > I am mostly in agreement with your statements on a
balance in the<br>
> >ecosystem. however I do not think that killing off old cow
elk has anything<br>
> >to do with the productive of young ones. One thing that is
missing is the<br>
> >disregard of the effects on livestock. I understand that you
folks do not<br>
> >care about the lively hood of livestock producers, which is
why you do not<br>
> >take this into consideration or downgrade it. I do not have a
problem with<br>
> >maintaining some wolves, but they need to be controlled. They
are much more<br>
> >dangerous than coyotes. I am a believer in multiple use. This
includes<br>
> >everyone, including livestock producers. I am a supporter of
The Nature<br>
> >conservancy. I used to be a member of the Audubon Society,
but their views<br>
> >have became too one side. The Sierra Club has always ben too
radical for<br>
> >me. As an aside, I was raised in the middle of what is called
the Owyhee<br>
> >Initiative. Our place was about 50 miles from Jordan Valley,
Oregon and 80<br>
> >miles from Bruneau, Idaho. I supp!<br>
> > ort the<br>
> >Owyhee Imitative as do most of my former neighbors that still
live there.<br>
> ><br>
> >Roger<br>
> ><br>
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