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The Defenders of Wildlife, critical of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s record on the aerial killing of wolves, has expanded the viewing audience of its newest television ad.
The ad, first released for certain markets in Florida, Michigan and Ohio, will now be airing in Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin. The AP reports that the wildlife group is also expanding the reach of the provocative ad so that it will air in Missouri in time for Thursday’s vice presidential debate in St. Louis.
About Timothy B. HurstTim is the founder of ecopolitology and the executive editor at LiveOAK Media where he writes regularly about the politics of energy and the environment, green business and clean tech.
When not reading, writing, thinking or talking about environmental politics with anyone who will listen, Tim spends his time skiing in Colorado's high country, hiking with his dog, and getting dirty in his vegetable garden.
[...] and “North America’s Serengeti.” Teeming with grizzly, black bear, wolf, lynx, caribou, elk, moose, bison and stone sheep, it is the largest intact wildlife habitat in the [...]
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I'm interested to know you're personal opinion on this subject. I've done some research into this subject, having lived in Colorado and Michigan and being an advocate of the outdoors.
Nature has a life cycle, of course, and when you kill off one species of animal, it can effect other species within the area.
A good example is the killing of wolves in area's where caribou and elk moose are. Wolves like to stealth hunt from thickly covered area's. When you kill off the wolves, these animals are free to forage those area's where wolves like to hide. When this happens, the hunted species not only expand, but they start to forage in those area's, killing the trees and bushes. This in turn effects the fruit of those trees and bushes which feed birds and rodents.
Why are the tree's and bird's dying? Because the wolf has been taken out of the ecosystem.
You're thoughts?
Adam-
The only reason I could see being a legitimate one would be if the wolves were somehow overpopulated. You are absolutely correct about messing with the ecological systems by eliminating the wolf, which some might consider a "keystone species."
To take your example one step further, wolves were completely eliminated from Colorado (though there is a reintroduction program now in place), and the deer and elk populations have grown at must faster rates than local flora can tolerate.
lets look at a place where wolves are scarce
in Canada in the comox valley BC
the area is lacking wolves
and
Deer are so populated I see at least 10 every week they are not afraid of humans
they destroy trees plants and crops
and crap every where
when one entered my yard
it severly injured my dog
if wolves are eliminated
the same thing will happen
every where