MARCH 2013 newsletter

conservation · education · preservation

COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER MARCH-APRIL 2013 I visited your site on Feb. 26th for a photography tour and I just wanted to thank you guys again for the most amazing experience of my life. It’s great what you do there to educate people about protecting these majestic animals.

- Brian Cross

Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center | PO Box 713 | Divide, CO 80814 | 719.687.9742 | www. wolfeducation.org

what a way to spend a birthday!

enjoying a snow day what happens after dark

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now that is LOVE!

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Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center | PO Box 713 | Divide, CO 80814 | 719.687.9742 | www. wolfeducation.org

Wolves In Peril

Wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies, from inception to the present, can only be considered a colossal failure.

The wolves did their part – after they were trapped and relocated to Yellowstone National Park, they reproduced, built their packs, and expanded their range to a large portion of southern Idaho, Montana and northern Wyoming – where they obviously reclaimed a niche they had long served before their extirpation. Their presence reverberated throughout the ecosystems in which they live, checking the growth of deer, elk and bison populations through predation and, as a result, influencing species composition, forest regeneration and even stream flow. They killed very few livestock, and no person has been harmed by a wolf. They did their part, and the proponents of wolf reintroduction have been proven right, in terms of their forecasts.

We recently lost one of our Mexican gray wolves, Rio He is missed by all at the center and his brother Rio was a beautiful spirit who brought joy to everyone who was lucky enough to be around this special boy.

Rest in Peace Rio, you will never be forgotten.

April 30, 2002 – February 20, 2013 I had the honor of watching Rio when he was a resident of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. I would get to the zoo right at opening time and would go directly to the wolf enclosure to quietly sit and hope to see the wolves before the masses descended. Many times I would catch them moving around and if I was lucky they would come down to the glass and be so close. It was my little piece of heaven. Never in my wildest dreams did I think there would come a day when I would not have that glass between us. Then the construction on the Wild Woods began and the boys were relocated to the peace and quiet of the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center where I later became a volunteer.

Unlike the rest of the wolves at the center we couldn’t go in and hang out with Rio and Cero, they were not to be socialized. So the only time I was around them was during pen cleaning, while conducting a tour, or

when taking pictures. Cero was the dominate of the two brothers but Rio was the brave one, a true beta.

Whenever I went in to take pictures, Cero would go to the top of the enclosure and hide but Rio would stay in the area, keeping track of me. He would circle where I was sitting, never coming too close but also never too far until he decided I wasn’t an immediate threat. Then he would find a good spot to keep an eye on me and lay down, pretending to sleep, to keep watch. Once Rio got comfortable, Cero would venture down the hill a bit so I was able to get pictures of him too.

Rio was always out front. I remember many times leading a group of people up to their enclosure and watching the boys come down the hill and around the corner, Rio in the lead, running up to the fence to see what treat I had for them. Rio always seemed to be laughing as he ran, so happy with life.

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But reintroduction has failed because of us. Humans failed the animals. This year alone, people legally shot and trapped 769 wolves – close to half the entire “recovered” population of the Northern Rockies. As a matter of the health and safety of wolves, this can only be considered a terrible, unconscionable outcome. It’s not just that long-studied wolves in Yellowstone were killed, though that’s bad enough – but throughout their entire range, they have been subjected to pain and suffering for no good reason, traumatized by the killing of family members, and turned upside down with the radical disruption of their pack structures.

If the metric for success was merely reintroduction, then that’s certainly been achieved. But if we are truly concerned about wolves – the animals as individuals, since that’s what

they are – then there can be no compelling positive assessment of how they’ve fared. How can we countenance an outcome that results, in a single year, in the intentional killing of nearly half the entire population in the Northern Rockies? That’s not a pruning, but a pogrom.

Lawmakers in the Northern Rockies states, apparently goaded on by the hunting and ranching lobbies, have had it out for wolves since the inception of the idea of reintroduction.

They never liked it, and fought it every step of the way. They possessed an irrational fear, even a hatred, of wolves, and they’ve had their revenge.

As soon as wolves were removed as a listed species under the terms of the Endangered Species Act, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming went on a killing spree, authorizing lengthy trophy hunting seasons (Wyoming basically allows year-round killing now), providing no safe zones for wolves, and introducing the use of cruel steel-jawed leg hold traps. Add in the methodical killing by federal Wildlife Services agents and the aggregate impact can be considered nothing less than slaughter. Hunters and trappers in these states killed 553 wolves this year (with Idaho killing 259 and barely besting Montana’s body count of 225), while Wildlife Services agents killed another 216.

I was uneasy when reintroduction occurred because I feared that wolves were being released into a hostile setting. That instinct was right. We should not reintroduce animals into areas where people want to slaughter them; it’s as simple as that.

There was praise and excitement about wolf reintroduction, and an abundance of science has now proved their beneficial ecological impacts. But no matter how well intentioned, that’s not enough. These poor creatures are suffering because we didn’t take the long-term into account and perhaps had too much faith in our fellow man.

MAJOR RECALL: Pet Products Possibly Contaminated with Salmonella Kasel Associated Industries of Denver is voluntarily recalling all products manufactured at its Denver facility from April 20, 2012 to Sept. 19, 2012 because of possible Salmonella contamination. The brands included are Boots & Barkley, BIXBI, Nature’s Deli, Colorado Naturals, Petco, and Best Bully Stick items. For a full list of recalled products, go to www. swampscott.patch.com and type RECALL in the search field.

A NICE NOTE WE RECEIVED: Just wanted to share a little bit of good news. Our HOA was very nice and placed my wolf posters in all 10 public notice boards around Flying Horse neighborhood.

Each notice board is next to the mailboxes, so it is a good place for people to see.

Wholefoods also placed the poster on their notice board. The posters are inviting people to visit Colorado Wolf & Wildlife Center and give your website and phone number. :) Maria

Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center | PO Box 713 | Divide, CO 80814 | 719.687.9742 | www. wolfeducation.org

Animal torture, abuse called a ‘regular practice’ within federal wildlife agency

By Cristina Corbin · Published March 12, 2013 · FoxNews.com “USDA does not condone any form of animal cruelty and It was a productive day for Gary Strader when he pulled holds all employees responsible for adhering to Departmental his vehicle up to a remote site in northeast Nevada and and Agency standards and directives,” Vilsack wrote. “WS found nine coyotes caught in leg hold snares set by the personnel are expected to use approved and humane methods federal government. As was routine, Strader, a former trapper to euthanize captured or restrained animals with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, whenever practicable, and in accordance signaled his dogs to attack. with American Veterinary Medical His supervisor, who had accompanied Association guidelines.” him that day, watched and laughed as the We were told But the lawmakers say several serious dogs circled the coyotes and ripped into to watch as they held questions remain unanswered. them, Strader recalled.

“I don’t understand why it should be the “That was regular practice,” said Strader, the dogs down and responsibility of the federal government to who in 2009 left Wildlife Services, a littleshot cyanide into their attempt to – very ineffectively and, in fact, known program within the USDA. The probably detrimentally – remove wildlife program is tasked with humanely killing mouths, one by one,” that has not been implicated in attacks on wildlife seen as a threat to the environment he said.

“I went home people and cattle,” said Defazio, who for and livestock, as well as protecting the two decades has championed the defunding public from wildlife hazards to commercial and cried that day. of Wildlife Services. planes at airports.

And then I quit.

Evidence showing animal cruelty has not “You let your dogs fight with them. That been difficult to uncover. was part of the job,” said Strader. “There’s In October, photos were discovered on not a person in Wildlife Services who is not the personal Facebook account of Wildlife aware of it.”

Services employee Jamie P. Olson. The The brutal approach by Wildlife Services is images showed dogs snarling at and biting into live coyotes part of a culture of animal cruelty that has long persisted within trapped in steel foot-holds, as well as pictures of coyote an agency that uses taxpayer money to wage an unnecessary carcasses. The photos were allegedly posted in an album titled war on wildlife, according to two U.S. congressmen who have “work,” but it remains unclear whether they were taken while repeatedly called for a thorough investigation.

Olson was on the job or not.

“This agency has become an outlet for people to abuse Olson, who works for Wyoming Wildlife Services, is still animals for no particular reason,” Rep. John Campbell, employed, but the matter is being investigated, according to R-Calif., told FoxNews.com.

Carol Bannerman, a spokeswoman for the USDA’s Animal “It is completely out of control,” he said. “They need to be and Plant Health Inspection Service, which oversees Wildlife brought into the 21st century.”

Services. Wildlife Services declined to make Olson available Campbell and Rep. Peter Defazio, D-Ore., penned a letter for comment, citing the ongoing investigation. last November to Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack When asked whether it was acceptable practice to have dogs calling for a complete audit of the “culture” within Wildlife attack trapped animals, Bannerman responded: “In terms of Services – in particular its lethal Predator Control program – a trapped animal, that would be considered unacceptable.” by the USDA Office of Inspector General.

Bannerman explained that Wildlife Services regularly Vilsack responded in a letter dated Feb. 1, saying an educates ranchers on various non-lethal methods that can be investigation into animal cruelty allegations was under way used to protect livestock – including better fencing, guard by the Administrative Investigations and Compliance Branch dogs and night patrols. of the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

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You let your dogs fight with them. That was part of the job,” said Strader. “There’s not a person in Wildlife Services who is not aware of it.

But, she said, “Sometimes ranchers will come to us at a point and say, ‘Okay, we’re trying all these things and we’re still experiencing a loss.”

To the farm industry, predator control is a critical factor in maintaining the success of the nation’s agriculture.

“We do not condone inhumane or cruel treatment of any animals,” said Paul Schlegel, director of public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “At the same, our farmers and ranchers recognize the important role played by USDA’s Wildlife Services office.”

“Livestock producers and row crop farmers all have significant investments in the land and in producing the food and fiber upon which millions of Americans depend,” Schlegel said. “We support effective predator control programs that assist farmers in bringing their products to market and recognize the important role those programs play in helping to feed and clothe America.”

But Campbell and Defazio, as well as various environmental groups, claim the government’s mission is excessive and cruel – and argue it should not be the taxpayers’ responsibility to protect private land and livestock.

Strader’s statements, for example, illustrate a particularly dark side of the agency’s killing methods.

“They wanted every single coyote killed,” he said.

Strader said he was often tasked with hunting for coyote dens while working for the government in remote areas of Utah and Nevada. He described how he would lower his stethoscope into the hole and listen for breathing or whining from the coyote puppies. Then he would drop a phosphorus bomb into the den and cover its opening with dirt.

“The bombs burn so fast and so hot that it sucks all the oxygen out of the hole,” he said. “They suffocate.”

“I had to kill hundreds of coyote pups and pregnant females,” Strader continued. “If you found a coyote den, you just bombed it.”

Strader, as well as several others, including a management source within the USDA, also charged that Wildlife Services employees often do not abide by trap-check laws -- meaning animals can be left for days in traps where they die from starvation or the elements.

Strader claims his job was terminated in 2009 after he alerted supervisors to alleged wrongdoing within the agency. He said his views on trapping animals have changed since he left.

Coyotes primarily feed on small mammals, like rabbits, rodents and squirrels, but they can also prey on larger animals like deer and livestock.

Biologists say natural predators, like coyotes, are vital to a healthy ecosystem because they keep other species’ populations down. And the more coyotes that are killed, the more coyotes will reproduce. If a member of the pack is killed, for instance, the alpha female responds by producing more litters.

“Not only is this ethically indefensible, it’s ecologically insane,” Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote, said of the killings each year by the predator control program.

A culture of cruelty has existed within the agency for decades, according to critics.

Rex Shaddox, a Texas law enforcement officer who worked for Wildlife Services in the 1980’s, said he left the agency – which at the time was called Animal Damage Control – after a particularly disturbing occurrence.

Shaddox said he and other workers were ordered to report to a city dump in Uvalde, Texas, to witness agency officials experiment with M-44 sodium cyanide on dogs from a local pound that were supposed to be euthanized.

“We were told to watch as they held the dogs down and shot cyanide into their mouths, one by one,” he said. “I went home and cried that day.

And then I quit.”

Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center | PO Box 713 | Divide, CO 80814 | 719.687.9742 | www. wolfeducation.org

Please join us for the Walk for Wolves.... these walks are being organized across the U.S. to raise awareness to what is happening to the wolves since they have been delisted

Denver will have walks on both Friday April 26th and Saturday April 27th at 11am starting at the capital building. Please meet in front of the capital starting at 10:30. Anyone interested can contact Chris at wolfwalkco@hotmail or through walkforwolves.com website!

April 27th - Colorado Springs walkers will meet at Chapel Hills Mall at 10 am. We will be walking down Academy Blvd to Woodmen then turning around and coming back up the other side for a total of about 3 miles. For more information and to sign up for the walk please contact the center at 687-9742.

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center Fundraiser for Fire Prevention

May 27th · Memorial Day · 10am to 5pm FOOD/BEER SILENT AUCTION BANDS VENDORS DOOR PRIZES Birds of Prey presentation

we saw this great email we wanted to share it with you...

During an early morning response to a house fire, firefighters were amazed...

A Mother dog risked her life to save her puppies from the fire surrounding the burning house. The mother dog, Amanda, raced back and forth between the house, putting her 10 day old puppies in the safest place she could find - a Fire Truck!

She didn’t stop racing back into the smoke and fire until all of her puppies were safely away from the fire.

The firemen on scene could not believe their eyes. Most people have never seen a dog this smart or this brave!

Bringing each one out, six trips into the fire and no one could stop her.

All the fireman could do was to keep a little water spray on her to keep her from getting burnt.

After rescuing all of her pups from the blaze, Amanda sat down next to them to nurse, protecting them with her body.

Aside from one puppy being treated for serious burns, the entire family are alive and well!

GOT

MEAT?

We are in need of meat (and monetary donations!)

We can take your freezer burned or old meat. We can’t take meat that is spoiled, seasoned, or spiced or fish with bones. 719-687-9742

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www.wolfeducation.org · 719.687.9742 Purchase tickets at www.BrownPaperTickets.com · 1.800.838.3006 · Wolfstock 2013 $30 adults · $15.00 kids 12 and younger · Parking at Divide Post Office Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center | PO Box 713 | Divide, CO 80814 | 719.687.9742 | www. wolfeducation.org

Standard Tours

One-hour educational tour of the sanctuary.

10 am, noon and 2 pm Tuesday-Sunday $10 per adult · $7 per child

Feeding Tours

Enjoy this one-hour educational tour while your guide feeds the wolves! Learn about hunting, howling and hierarchy and communicate with the pack in a group howl! $20 per adult · $10 per child Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Photo Tours

Interact with 2 of our wolves for up to 15 minutes while a CWWC photographer captures your interaction! $100 for up to 4 people · $50 per additional person MUST BE 18 OR OLDER

Youth FOX Photos

Your child will have their picture taken with our red fox! $100 for up to 4 children (must be 8 or older)

VIP Tours

FULL MOON TOURS Wear warm clothes and good boots.

Bring a camera and flashlight.

Cocoa and coffee will be provided. $25 per adult · $15 per child 8-12 No kids under 8

SATURDAY · APRIL 27 call for check-in time

Meet and greet one of our wolves before the tour.

Tour starts immediately after and lasts approx 1 hour NOTE: Reservations will not be guaranteed until we reach our min. requirement.

Please call to put your name on the list!!

FUTURE FULL MOON TOURS: May 25 · June 22/23* July 20/21* · August 24/25*

Interact with 4 of our wolves for up to 30 minutes! $150 for up to 2 people · $50 per additional person ADD ON a Photo Tour for an additional $75 MUST BE 18 OR OLDER

Walk on the Wild Side

What could be better than a guided nature walk in the beautiful Rocky Mountains with a wolf? $75 per person

All CWWC tours have limited space and we have a no-cancellation policy Reschedules are allowed May-October only

Reserve for Thursday & Sunday

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED FOR ALL TOURS AND SPECIAL EVENTS 719-687-9742

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED FOR ALL TOURS AND SPECIAL EVENTS 719-687-9742

In The News One of the many reasons America is the A MEDITATION greatest country on ON HORSEMEAT Earth and European nations are not is that LASAGNA Americans don’t have to eat horse-meat lasagna.

by Kevin Horrigan, No, our frozen lasagna St. Louis Dispatch generally contains beef, which differs from horse-meat in many ways, such as horse-meat is said to be sweeter than beef, and usually leaner, too, meaning it has about half the calories. On the other hand, Mr. Ed and Seabiscuit were not beef cattle, if you get my drift.

Europe has been aghast and agog since horse DNA was found last month in some frozen beef samples in Ireland. The problems then got baked into lasagna and spread to England and 14 other nations. Health ministers met in Brussels amid talk of a criminal conspiracy. At first, fingers were pointed at France, where horse-meat is known as viande de cheval and considered quite tasty. But now slaughterhouses in many countries are being raided.

Officially the concern is over mislabeling, but the cultural objections are huge. I don’t get it, but then again, I’ve had horses bite me and kick me, so maybe I’m not the guy to ask. I will say I was upset when I learned that Ferdinand, the winner of the 1986 Kentucky Derby, had been destroyed in Japan in 2002 and is believed to have wound up in pet food.

I was at Churchill Downs for that Derby and had $20 on Ferdinand’s nose. The colt went off at 17-to-1 but 54-year-old Bill Shoemaker was aboard and I figured what the hell, I’m a lousy handicapper anyway, so go with the old guy. Call me an animal rights nut, but a horse that returns $375 on a $20 bet shouldn’t be eaten by man or beast.

Making things worse is that Great Britain is where the modern animal-rights movement first gained traction with the 1975 publication of “Animal Liberation” by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. By 1980, a British-born stockbroker named Ingrid Newkirk had read Singer’s book and founded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Virginia, and we were off to the races. Not literally, of course, because animals shouldn’t be forced to race for people’s entertainment, even if they come home at 17-to-1. Plus, as The New York Times revealed last year, an average of 24 horses a week die at American racetracks,

shot up with drugs to help them overcome injuries and pain.

This is why you should never eat racehorse meat, even if you’re in France and the steak a chevel looks enticing. Let’s face it, eating horse-meat is a cultural thing.

At a moral level, it’s no better or worse than eating beef, chicken, hogs or any other animal raised for food. It might be worse than eating, say, venison, because the horse has come to trust you and deer are notoriously paranoid. The same for eating dogs. In Western cultures, people no longer eat dogs because (a) we’ve come to assume that that’s not what they’re for and (b) we hardly ever get hungry enough.

We in the West live in the best of times and, for food anyway, the best of places. In the U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, we consume a sixth of the world’s animal protein, 8 ounces per person per day, and pay less for it than people anywhere else in the world. We waste more animal protein than many of the world’s nations ever see.

As other nations grow more affluent, they want it like what we do. Meat consumption worldwide is growing, but it’s dropped 12% over the last 5 years in the U.S. Part of that is because people are choosing to eat less meat for health reasons.

Much of it is because economic times have been tough and meat is more expensive because of climate change and world demand. There are 925 million hungry people in the world, and we spend $51 billion a year on our pets. We can afford to be appalled at horse-meat lasagna and dog stew. It’s a nice luxury.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS???

The state of Utah gave Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife and Big Game Forever $300,000 last year for their anti-wolf crusades, with no strings attached and no accountability for how the money was spent. Nobody seems to know what these groups are doing with all this taxpayer money, but here is what Don Peay, the founder of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, has proposed doing to wolves: “I know what the sportsmen of Utah would do [about wolves]!

Worse case, we would go to the PETA pound and save 1,000 dogs about to be killed by PETA and HSUS and take them out in wolf areas – well fed and cared for of course – but when the wolves kill these dogs, get the wolves killed. Or we would go and buy a bunch of sheep, stake them out in five acre pens and when wolves killed them, get the wolves killed.”

Unbelievably, the state is about to give these guys another $300,000. Our last hope is to convince Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to strike the expenditure with a line-item veto.

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looking for a forever home A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself

BETSY

LUCKY

Betsy is a large, several year old shepherd. Lucky is a year old pit bull and was named She was a stray and was shot some weeks because he survived being homeless and ago though we don’t know where or when. in bad shape. A woman started caring for When we rescued her we saw her side had him and her neighbor then shot him in the a slight wound which we treated. After a shoulder and shattered his humerus. He few days it didn’t heal so we took her to has had surgery and a pin placed in his the vet. The vet saw it was a bullet wound humerus. He is a very friendly dog with and knew the bullet was still inside. After both humans and other animals. The little considerable surgery, the Vet finally found terrier chews on his neck and he takes it as a 9mm bullet and removed it. She is a play and wouldn’t ever hurt her. At first we very gentle loving dog but shy. She doesn’t feared nerve damage as he just dragged the appear dangerous and is a breed not known leg. Now he walks on it but doesn’t yet put to be dangerous so there is no reason she full weight on it. He is a very friendly, happy should ever have been shot. She’ll make go lucky dog and has taken all in stride and a 100% recovery and is being cared for by is always cheerful. Lucky is curious about us at our home. Because she is so gentle cats, so he wouldn’t be a good dog for cats and large, she’d be marvelous with young but he is great with dogs and people and he children. loves to play.

SLV Animal Welfare Society · 719-587-woof (9663) · www.slvaws.org

CHAMP I am quite the ham, and love to have my picture taken, can you tell by my fantastic smile? I am a sweetheart and love my people time. I would do best in a home where you do not have to leave me alone for long periods of time. I do get along with other dogs, so if you have some bring them with you to meet me, when you come to visit.

Call TCRAS, the no-kill shelter in Divide, CO at 719-686-7707 for more information or checkout our website to see all the available animals! www.tcrascolorado.com

PRIVATE SHELTER - MONETARY DONATIONS NEEDED BADLY Vieques Humane Society - Vieques, Puerto Rico, a small island located off the mainland’s east coast, for many years offered no veterinary or animal rescue services. During the early 1980’s, a handful of concerned immigrants from the states and a few local residents took a serious interest in improving the welfare of the animals. They began by feeding the island’s multitudinous strays and soliciting the help of veterinarians from Puerto Rico to sterilize them. By 1987, the Vieques Humane Society and Animal Rescue, Inc. was officially established as a non-profit organization. Today they still offer the only veterinary services on the island and have developed strong community based programs.

See available dogs at www.viequeshumanesociety.org · CWWC will help you cover adoption fees - 719.687.9742

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