Rewilders ready to celebrate Wolf Awareness
Week, Oct. 14-20
Week, Oct. 14-20
by C. J. Williams - Oct 07
While some environmental conservation organizations prepare to invade
taxpayer funded public schools and libraries during Wolf Awareness Week
with their pro-wolf propaganda designed to make children believe there's no
such thing as a big, bad wolf, the Michigan Wolf War rages on with Yooper
sportsmen and others diligently trying to set up a wolf hunting/trapping
season in the state.
Defenders of Wildlife made Wolf Awareness Week a national event in 1996,
modeling it on a prior regional celebration of wolves organized by the Timber
Wolf Alliance, comprised of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC),
the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and the Sigurd Olson Environmental
Institute at Northland College in Ashland, WI.
While some environmental conservation organizations prepare to invade
taxpayer funded public schools and libraries during Wolf Awareness Week
with their pro-wolf propaganda designed to make children believe there's no
such thing as a big, bad wolf, the Michigan Wolf War rages on with Yooper
sportsmen and others diligently trying to set up a wolf hunting/trapping
season in the state.
Defenders of Wildlife made Wolf Awareness Week a national event in 1996,
modeling it on a prior regional celebration of wolves organized by the Timber
Wolf Alliance, comprised of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC),
the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and the Sigurd Olson Environmental
Institute at Northland College in Ashland, WI.
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affiliates, are providing our communities with "Wolf Education Trunks" filled
with pro-wolf "education material" for school-aged children. The trunks can
also be "borrowed" from the NWF's Great Lakes Resource Center in Ann
Arbor.
In addition to the wolf education trunks, NWF and its affiliated state clubs
(affiliates limited to one per state) provide a school curriculum and films to
brainwash children into becoming wolf-lovers. The NWF has also produced
a step-by-step guide for libraries to host a Wolf Awareness Week "outreach"
activity targeted at middle school students.
To make sure that children fully understand that wolves are warm and
fuzzy creatures, the Timber Wolf Alliance will be distributing free posters of
Jon Ren's $2,600 acrylic on canvas rendition of two gray timber wolves on
"Snow Patrol", docilely eyeing something or someone on a snow covered
hillside. The posters, blemished with current info about Upper Midwest wolf
packs, are intended to "celebrate" the return of wolves to some of their
historical habitat and are being sent to schools, libraries, nature centers and
individuals who come into contact with a communities children.
And while environmentalists have been preparing to celebrate Wolf
Awareness Week, people like farmer John Koski in the western U.P.
Bessemer area and the Don Johnson family from the L'Anse area have been
burying what's left of their livestock and hunting dogs killed and partially
eaten by wolves; while environmentalists are filling our school-aged children
with pro-wolf propaganda, many adults are praying it's not their child,
grandchild, niece, nephew, or little neighbor child who's maimed or killed by
wolves.
Having recently talked with some sportsmen from the western U.P., yours
truly was amazed to learn they have no idea why Yoopers are being
forced to put up with wolves. They know nothing of the Wildlands
Project's plan to rewild a minimum of 50 percent of the U.S. and make it
off-limits to people; a plan to restore wolves and other carnivorous predators
to their "historical habitat" and give them and their needs precedence over
people and their needs and constitutional rights.
The Wildlands Project (TWP) organization's co-founding socialists,
David Foreman and Reed Noss, and their eco-environmentalist Gang Green
followers don't care if it takes a hundred years to complete the entire project,
but, as progress is made, the U.P. is being folded into TWP's "Heart of the
Continent" initiative. That initiative is one of several TWP initiatives to rewild
U.S. border states along with Canadian provinces all across the country; a
rewilding initiative that will all but erase the "human footprint" from the
off-limits for human use core UN Biospheres and severely restricted human
use buffering bioreserve land and migration corridors.
Regardless of Gang Green's "open to hunters, fishermen and snowmobilers
forever" mantra, the bioreserves are intended primarily for
grant-funded researchers, their entourage, and Native American tribes, who
are now being romanced with grant money and gaming casino licenses, but
whose tribal members will most likely end up being used like borrowed
mules for research purposes and labor when casino patrons can no longer
Reed Noss put Foreman's envisioned Wildlands Project into words when
he wrote the Wildlands Project "plan" with funding from the Nature
Conservancy and Audubon Society. It was adopted by the UN and is being
carried out in America by the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) U.S.
government and non-government partners. In fact, the Clinton-Gore
administration gave TWP's plan credibility immediately in 1993 when
Clinton implemented the "Ecosystem Management Policy" that's now being
followed by resource management agencies in every state in America.
While many scoff at the Wildlands Project as being utterly ridiculous, the fact
that it's being implemented is as plain as the nose on your face and all one
need do to see it is to take an in-depth look at the government/land
trust/corporate (public/private) land grabbing taking place under the auspice
of saving it for generations to come. Couple that with all the use-restrictive
conservation easement "acquisitions" and the multitudinous environmental
laws and land use policies being implemented on a steady basis over the
past several years and it's not a very pretty picture of what's to come in the
very near future.
In great part, TWP's and now the IUCN's ecosystem management scheme
allows nature to run its course with little to no interference from
humans, even though it means letting wildfire and floods rage unchecked
and allowing large unmanaged populations of wolves to eat their way
through the U.P. deer herd, as well as populations of other species.
That humans, including our natural resource agency personnel whose
paycheck comes from Joe Public, aren't intended to interfere in TWP's
perceived natural order of things is substantiated by the Wildland Project's
intention to "establish large areas of wild habitat (ecoregions) where plants
and animals are unrestrained, where native species thrive, and where nature,
not technology, determines their evolutionary fate".
In light of this knowledge coupled with wolf "reintroduction" efforts in most of
the 48 lower states, the claim that gray timber wolves returned to the U.P. on
their own is ludicrous. There are just too many coincidences to make that
claim anything other than a modern day fairy tale.
Some of those coincidences are the 1981 designation of Isle Royale as a
United Nations' Biosphere, the subsequent U.P. mainland UN bioreserve
and "migration corridor" system building ala the Wildlands Project in the early
1990s, the "reintroduction" of wolves in the U.P., and the MI-DNR's decision to
embrace the Clinton-Gore ecosystem management policy, which is based on
sustainable development modeling guesswork and not sound scientific fact.
The MI-DNR's refusal to admit to seeing all the wolves hunters and
rural landowners saw early on was a ploy to keep sportsmen from going
totally ballistic until a viable population of 200 wolves was established in
Michigan, but the reality of the situation is that now the agency admits that
during the summer months after pups are born there are likely at least 1,000
wolves in the U.P. and none downstate.
To minimize the shock of that information, we're being told that the annual
mortality rate for wolf pups is from 60 to 70 percent and that the average life
span for an adult wolf is from 5 to 7 years. Of course they don't say if they're
basing those figures on an exceptionally bad year, but regardless of how they
crunch the numbers, the wolf population continues to grow and go
unmanaged, causing heartache and financial loss for farmers, hunters, and
pet owners, as well as worry among parents of small children and others
who love them.
Unfortunately, when it comes to supporters of the Wildlands Project, Gang
Green is relegating farmers, hunters, pet owners, parents and others who
love small children, all humans, in fact, to a place under the wheels of the
environmental bus while welcoming wolves, cougar and the like to ride
inside. They truly believe in the quote attributed to Reed Noss, "the collective
needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and
desires of humans" and a quote attributed to David Foreman, "We must
make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their
projects". "We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam
construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to
wilderness millions of ten of millions of acres of presently settled land".
While there is an initiative underway by many west end Yoopers to set up a
wolf hunting/trapping season in Michigan in the near future so as to get the
U.P. wolf population under control, it will come only at the hands of our
legislators who can enact such legislation at the prodding of the MI-DNR
and/or citizens of the state. Unfortunately, the U.P. has many more wolves
and Gang Green members than it does state senators and representatives
and the good Lord only knows how well such proposed legislation will be
received in the state capitol building and governor's office or how well they'll
stand up to the pro-wolf stakeholder groups that the MI-DNR has taken under
its wing.
However, those who have had it with the mismanagement of wolves in
Upper Michigan still have until November 14th to weigh in on the proposed
Michigan Wolf Management Plan.
The plan is posted online at the MI-DNR Website at www.michigan.gov/dnr
or directly at the first link at the end of this article. Requests for hard copies
can be sent to: MI-DNR Wildlife Division, P.O. Box 30444, Lansing 48909.
Comments about the DNR's plan can be e-mailed to
wolf_comments@michigan.gov or mailed to Wolf Plan Comments, Attn
Endangered Species Coordinator, MI-DNR Wildlife Division, P.O. Box 30444
Lansing 48909.
http://www.michigandnr.com/pulications/pdfs/huntingwildlifehabitat/DraftWolfP
lan.pdf (1.81 MB)
http://www.outdoorwire.com/access/education/nm_twp/nm_twp_pt5.htm
http://www.vlrc.org/articles/21.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22710
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/rewilding/mission.html
http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/2006/articles09/six_injured_in_rare_wo
lf_attack.htm
with pro-wolf "education material" for school-aged children. The trunks can
also be "borrowed" from the NWF's Great Lakes Resource Center in Ann
Arbor.
In addition to the wolf education trunks, NWF and its affiliated state clubs
(affiliates limited to one per state) provide a school curriculum and films to
brainwash children into becoming wolf-lovers. The NWF has also produced
a step-by-step guide for libraries to host a Wolf Awareness Week "outreach"
activity targeted at middle school students.
To make sure that children fully understand that wolves are warm and
fuzzy creatures, the Timber Wolf Alliance will be distributing free posters of
Jon Ren's $2,600 acrylic on canvas rendition of two gray timber wolves on
"Snow Patrol", docilely eyeing something or someone on a snow covered
hillside. The posters, blemished with current info about Upper Midwest wolf
packs, are intended to "celebrate" the return of wolves to some of their
historical habitat and are being sent to schools, libraries, nature centers and
individuals who come into contact with a communities children.
And while environmentalists have been preparing to celebrate Wolf
Awareness Week, people like farmer John Koski in the western U.P.
Bessemer area and the Don Johnson family from the L'Anse area have been
burying what's left of their livestock and hunting dogs killed and partially
eaten by wolves; while environmentalists are filling our school-aged children
with pro-wolf propaganda, many adults are praying it's not their child,
grandchild, niece, nephew, or little neighbor child who's maimed or killed by
wolves.
Having recently talked with some sportsmen from the western U.P., yours
truly was amazed to learn they have no idea why Yoopers are being
forced to put up with wolves. They know nothing of the Wildlands
Project's plan to rewild a minimum of 50 percent of the U.S. and make it
off-limits to people; a plan to restore wolves and other carnivorous predators
to their "historical habitat" and give them and their needs precedence over
people and their needs and constitutional rights.
The Wildlands Project (TWP) organization's co-founding socialists,
David Foreman and Reed Noss, and their eco-environmentalist Gang Green
followers don't care if it takes a hundred years to complete the entire project,
but, as progress is made, the U.P. is being folded into TWP's "Heart of the
Continent" initiative. That initiative is one of several TWP initiatives to rewild
U.S. border states along with Canadian provinces all across the country; a
rewilding initiative that will all but erase the "human footprint" from the
off-limits for human use core UN Biospheres and severely restricted human
use buffering bioreserve land and migration corridors.
Regardless of Gang Green's "open to hunters, fishermen and snowmobilers
forever" mantra, the bioreserves are intended primarily for
grant-funded researchers, their entourage, and Native American tribes, who
are now being romanced with grant money and gaming casino licenses, but
whose tribal members will most likely end up being used like borrowed
mules for research purposes and labor when casino patrons can no longer
Reed Noss put Foreman's envisioned Wildlands Project into words when
he wrote the Wildlands Project "plan" with funding from the Nature
Conservancy and Audubon Society. It was adopted by the UN and is being
carried out in America by the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) U.S.
government and non-government partners. In fact, the Clinton-Gore
administration gave TWP's plan credibility immediately in 1993 when
Clinton implemented the "Ecosystem Management Policy" that's now being
followed by resource management agencies in every state in America.
While many scoff at the Wildlands Project as being utterly ridiculous, the fact
that it's being implemented is as plain as the nose on your face and all one
need do to see it is to take an in-depth look at the government/land
trust/corporate (public/private) land grabbing taking place under the auspice
of saving it for generations to come. Couple that with all the use-restrictive
conservation easement "acquisitions" and the multitudinous environmental
laws and land use policies being implemented on a steady basis over the
past several years and it's not a very pretty picture of what's to come in the
very near future.
In great part, TWP's and now the IUCN's ecosystem management scheme
allows nature to run its course with little to no interference from
humans, even though it means letting wildfire and floods rage unchecked
and allowing large unmanaged populations of wolves to eat their way
through the U.P. deer herd, as well as populations of other species.
That humans, including our natural resource agency personnel whose
paycheck comes from Joe Public, aren't intended to interfere in TWP's
perceived natural order of things is substantiated by the Wildland Project's
intention to "establish large areas of wild habitat (ecoregions) where plants
and animals are unrestrained, where native species thrive, and where nature,
not technology, determines their evolutionary fate".
In light of this knowledge coupled with wolf "reintroduction" efforts in most of
the 48 lower states, the claim that gray timber wolves returned to the U.P. on
their own is ludicrous. There are just too many coincidences to make that
claim anything other than a modern day fairy tale.
Some of those coincidences are the 1981 designation of Isle Royale as a
United Nations' Biosphere, the subsequent U.P. mainland UN bioreserve
and "migration corridor" system building ala the Wildlands Project in the early
1990s, the "reintroduction" of wolves in the U.P., and the MI-DNR's decision to
embrace the Clinton-Gore ecosystem management policy, which is based on
sustainable development modeling guesswork and not sound scientific fact.
The MI-DNR's refusal to admit to seeing all the wolves hunters and
rural landowners saw early on was a ploy to keep sportsmen from going
totally ballistic until a viable population of 200 wolves was established in
Michigan, but the reality of the situation is that now the agency admits that
during the summer months after pups are born there are likely at least 1,000
wolves in the U.P. and none downstate.
To minimize the shock of that information, we're being told that the annual
mortality rate for wolf pups is from 60 to 70 percent and that the average life
span for an adult wolf is from 5 to 7 years. Of course they don't say if they're
basing those figures on an exceptionally bad year, but regardless of how they
crunch the numbers, the wolf population continues to grow and go
unmanaged, causing heartache and financial loss for farmers, hunters, and
pet owners, as well as worry among parents of small children and others
who love them.
Unfortunately, when it comes to supporters of the Wildlands Project, Gang
Green is relegating farmers, hunters, pet owners, parents and others who
love small children, all humans, in fact, to a place under the wheels of the
environmental bus while welcoming wolves, cougar and the like to ride
inside. They truly believe in the quote attributed to Reed Noss, "the collective
needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and
desires of humans" and a quote attributed to David Foreman, "We must
make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their
projects". "We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam
construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to
wilderness millions of ten of millions of acres of presently settled land".
While there is an initiative underway by many west end Yoopers to set up a
wolf hunting/trapping season in Michigan in the near future so as to get the
U.P. wolf population under control, it will come only at the hands of our
legislators who can enact such legislation at the prodding of the MI-DNR
and/or citizens of the state. Unfortunately, the U.P. has many more wolves
and Gang Green members than it does state senators and representatives
and the good Lord only knows how well such proposed legislation will be
received in the state capitol building and governor's office or how well they'll
stand up to the pro-wolf stakeholder groups that the MI-DNR has taken under
its wing.
However, those who have had it with the mismanagement of wolves in
Upper Michigan still have until November 14th to weigh in on the proposed
Michigan Wolf Management Plan.
The plan is posted online at the MI-DNR Website at www.michigan.gov/dnr
or directly at the first link at the end of this article. Requests for hard copies
can be sent to: MI-DNR Wildlife Division, P.O. Box 30444, Lansing 48909.
Comments about the DNR's plan can be e-mailed to
wolf_comments@michigan.gov or mailed to Wolf Plan Comments, Attn
Endangered Species Coordinator, MI-DNR Wildlife Division, P.O. Box 30444
Lansing 48909.
http://www.michigandnr.com/pulications/pdfs/huntingwildlifehabitat/DraftWolfP
lan.pdf (1.81 MB)
http://www.outdoorwire.com/access/education/nm_twp/nm_twp_pt5.htm
http://www.vlrc.org/articles/21.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22710
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/rewilding/mission.html
http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/2006/articles09/six_injured_in_rare_wo
lf_attack.htm
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