Montana State University Biologists Scott Creel and Jay Rotella penned an oh so revealing peer reviewed article in 2010 entitled: META-ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMAN OFFTAKE, TOTAL MORTALITY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS OF GRAY WOLVES(CANIS LUPUS)...........It is so very appropriate to post this article at this time when the state of Montana is in the throes or adding trapping to its already lenient wolf hunting paradigm for 2012.................As the two authors document, "human killing of wolves is generally not compensatory as has been previously widely argued"......"Management policies should not assume that an increase in human-caused mortality will be offset by a decline in natural mortality"....."Rather, the effect of harvesting on wolf mortality appears highly additive to super-additive".............."Estimated sustainable harvest levels are lower than current Northen Rocky Mountain management plans suggest"......."Our results suggest that such harvests will generally cause wolf populations to decline"..........."The effects of such a harvest may not be fully maifest in one year"........The details in this article are so poignant in their clear reveal that Montana and Idaho(and soon Wyoming) are on a headlong drive to plummet wolf populations to unsustainable levels, completely undermining the Rocky Mtn wolf restoration efforts of the past 25 years

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