Here We Go Again - Anti-wolf wingnuts ratcheting up the rhetoric........Carter Niemeyer sharing the kind of letters Lobo Watch followers are writing to New Mexico Game Commissioners..............As we have said previously, you would think that the 50 Mexican Wolves were actually 50,000 and coming over the mountains to conquer us like some "Genghis Khan" army of barbarians..............Truly a sad commentary on some of our fellow citizens who are using Wolves as scapegoats for the anger they feel toward the Federal Government.............Again, I ask why are they so mad at the Feds?....For the subsidized cattle grazing allotments?.............For the subsidized Predator Control by WILDLIFE SERVICES?..........by Federal Farm Subsidies they receive?..........Lobo Watch would say that the Earth is here for us humans only and the Federal subsidies they receive make sense because they are doing good for people by raising cattle......They are unwilling at this point to subscribe to Leopold's land ethic which states: "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect".........perhaps Republican President Teddy Roosevelt's dictum can bring pause to Lobo Watch members and get them to calmly consider that the greatest array of wild species on our Continent ensures optimum health and vitality for us humans going forward............"The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wontonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1913

On 6-19-11, the State of New Mexico decided they had had enough of this idiocy, and voted to pull out of the Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction Program.

Following is an e-mail received from LOBO WATCH follower, New Mexico outfitter Jess Carey...

I would like to report to you; On May 18th, 2011 the Catron County Commission sent a letter to The N.M. Game Commission and Governor Martinez requesting them to remove the State from Mexican Wolf Re-Introduction. Six documents were attached to show the damage the children and folks of Catron County has suffered due to Mexican Wolf Recovery. At the New Mexico Game Commission meeting today, 06-09-11, the Commission voted unanimously to remove the state from Mexican Wolf Re-Introduction. Governor Martinez also supports the state being removed from Mexican Wolf Re-Introduction.

Governor Martinez and the Game Commission will be receiving a lot of flack from the pro-wolf supporters and wolf organizations, it is "imperative" that we all send a letter or email to Governor Martinez and each Game Commissioner to support them and thank them for the action they have taken.

Now the USFWS cannot blame the Game Department on wolf issues, now the USFWS can be held accountable. We want Governor Martinez to take action on documented wolf interaction to remove those wolves. Every wolf livestock depredation and habituated wolf interaction around homes and people needs to be documented.

Catron County Commissioner Glen Griffin did an excellent job in his presentation to the Game Commission, as did all the folks who spoke against the wolf program. Many could not attend the Game Meeting due to the fire at the Arizona state line.

You can be assured that the liberal press will only use the same old pro-wolf advocate statements in their paper and make everyone else look bad.

Please pass this email on to everyone you know and ask them to send a letter or email in support to remove the state from Mexican Wolf Re-introduction.
Thank you,
Jess Carey

Addresses below:
Office of the Governor
490 Old Santa Fe Trail
Room 400
Santa Fe, NM 87501

Those wishing to send an e-mail message to Governor Susana Martinez can use the form on the official state website at...
http://www.governor.state.nm.us/Contact_the_Governor.aspx

LOBO WATCH sent the following response to New Mexico resident and outfitter Jess Carey...

Thanks Jess,

This afternoon, I will circulate this throughout the Northern Rockies, and I will send a letter to the Governor of New Mexico, and to the New Mexico Game Commission thanking them for doing what had to be done.
Wolf control begins with the populace of a state saying "No!" to forced federal programs which so severely impact the health, safety and welfare of the people as negatively as has forced wolf introduction. Not only have wolves destroyed wildlife resources and created undue hardships for ranchers, USFWS wolves are also destroying a way of life and delivering the "cou de gras" to an already dying economy.

I only wish our Governor here in Montana was man enough to do the same thing. He's a big talker, but not much of a doer. He continues to play the USFWS wolf game, and because of his lackluster stand against wolves, the state of Montana, the "Treasure State", is fast losing one of its most precious treasures - the abundance of wildlife once found all along its western mountains.

 Wildlife conservation in this part of the state has suffered a 40 to 50 year set back...now the ranching community is being forced to feed far more wolves than our Governor and our Game Commission
acknowledge here. They have become an integral part of the problem, and Montanans have grown sick and tired of the idiocy behind the Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Project, and those responsible for the tremendous losses this state has suffered, and continues to suffer.

Thanks for getting this information to me.
Toby Bridges
LOBO WATCH

http://www.lobowatch.com/