12.2018 CWWC Newsletter

DECEMBER 2018

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“Hi, my name is Taylor. I am 7 years old. I want to help collect items for wolves. I love wolves a lot, I want to give them a gift. What do your wolves want for Christmas?”

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Ms. Kobobel, Thank you so much for taking the time to meet my son, Eli, when we visited last weekend. He felt so special!

Eli Wright raised $49.50 at his lemonade and cookie stand for the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center.

Eli wants to be a wildlife biologist when he grows up. Wolves and foxes (especially fennec foxes!) are his favorite animals. Eli’s friends, Bea and Max Fisher, were great helpers at the lemonade stand. Thank you again!

We are such fans of the work you do and look forward to coming back next month with our holiday guests.

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Forest Service revokes permit for rancher who trapped wolf ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service has revoked a grazing permit for a rancher who trapped an endangered Mexican gray wolf and hit it with a shovel.

The agency notified Craig Thiessen of its decision late last week.

The Datil rancher held the permit for an allotment near Reserve on the Gila National Forest. The permit had been at risk after Thiessen pleaded guilty in May to knowingly taking threatened wildlife.

The 10-month-old wolf pup died in February 2015.

Thiessen has said he knew he caught a Mexican gray wolf because it had a radio tracking collar. He disputed killing it.

A group that included environmentalists had called on the Forest Service to revoke Thiessen’s permit.

The Forest Service says it will offer other ranchers an opportunity to graze on the allotment.

Letter to the editor of the Grand Forks Herald

Wolves must remain on endangered list The Herald’s editorial board has taken a misguided stance on federal wolf delisting (Nov. 20: “Producers aren’t just crying ‘wolf ’”). H.R. 6784 is a dangerous bill that not only ignores science and public values, but undermines our right to challenge government actions in court.

Minnesotans clearly value wolves; the DNR’s own 2012 public survey showed that 79 percent of respondents do not support hunting and trapping of wolves in this state. Looking at other scientific studies, it’s easy to see why this iconic canid is so popular — in addition to all that they do for our ecosystem, wolves help prevent deer-vehicle collisions and provide a hefty boost to our economy through wolf-watching tourism.

But let’s get to the heart of the Herald’s editorial — livestock losses due to wolves.

USDA’s own data (which is inflated due to their reliance on a survey of livestock producers, rather than verified data) show 10 times more cattle and sheep died from health, birthing, weather and other maladies than from all mammalian or avian predators combined. These data also show that in 2015, of the 2.7 million cattle inventoried in Minnesota, wolves took a mere 0.08 percent.

Meanwhile, 5 percent of the cattle died from maladies. The biggest killers of Minnesota’s cattle: respiratory, digestive, calving problems and weather — not livestock predators. Furthermore, USDA Wildlife Services data show that the agency verified just 89 complaints of wolf depredations on livestock/poultry in Minnesota in 2017, yet agency personnel killed 190 wolves in response.

The bottom line is that wolves need to remain protected under the Endangered Species Act. The last time wolves in Minnesota lost federal protections, trophy hunters and trappers killed 413 wolves, including 120 pups, in just the first season.

Our DNR will almost certainly jeopardize our fragile population in their haste to kowtow to trophy hunters and trappers.

Jessica gets creative with fire hose in knots for the wolves!

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B.C. petition to end wolf cull submitted to province Wolf Awareness says more habitat must be protected to save ailing caribou Conservation group Wolf Awareness has submitted a petition calling for the the B.C. government to end annual wolf culls.

“Wolves didn’t put caribou in this terrible situation. We did,” said Sadie Parr, executive director of Wolf Awareness, which is based in Golden, B.C. The petition has over 3,000 signatures from across B.C., and was submitted to the province in November.

The aerial wolf management program was introduced in 2015 and was scheduled for five years. So far, 527 wolves have been killed province-wide. The program included the Revelstoke area in 2017. Since then, 29 wolves have been killed north of the city.

“I am extremely concerned that my tax dollars are funding an inhumane wildlife program that is being done under the guise of conservation,” said Parr.

Since 2015, wolves have been destroyed in the South Selkirks to help caribou. This winter there are only two females caribou left in that herd. Those two along with the four remaining in the South Purcell herd will be netted and taken to a rearing pen north of Revelstoke. The South Selkirk herd is the last herd that migrates back and forth between Canada and the U.S. Soon, there will be no caribou in the contiguous United States.

They will be extinct. “This is where I get shivers and I get scared because it seems to me that society is witnessing this extinction.

It’s death by a million cuts,” said Parr.

According to Wildsafe B.C. there are approximately 8,500 wolves in B.C and the B.C. government says that number is increasing.

The province wrote in an email to the Revelstoke Review that the wolf cull is benefiting three herd areas: Moberly, Quintette near Tumbler Ridge and Kennedy Siding, located 25 kilometres southeast of Mackenzie, B.C. All three are increasing whereas they were previously declining.

However, Parr questions the province’s claims on herds increasing in population. She says it’s possible that some herds are merging together and therefore appear to be increasing in size.

According to the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development wolves are the leading cause of caribou mortality, with about 40 per cent of investigated adult caribou deaths relating to wolves.

The B.C. government also states that the forestry sector has a significant impact on caribou habitat.

Parr said conserving habitat is more important for caribou. Much more so than killing other wildlife.

“We know what’s bad for caribou. Yet, we’re continuing to develop in areas that have been identified as critical for caribou.”

For example, Imperial Metals is developing a zinc-lead mine near Upper Seymour Provincial Park, which is in caribou habitat.

Since May, the B.C. government has also approved 83 logging cut blocks in caribou habitat.

Critics of the provincial government say not enough old growth forest is being protected.

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Old growth forests not only provides lichen, which is the main food source for caribou, but also protection against predators.

Particularly in Revelstoke, old growth protection is lacking, according to Thompson.

“Instead, we’ve had a blood bath.”

The B.C. government says the wolf management program is necessary to ensure caribou’s survival. Caribou in B.C. have declined from 40,000 in the early 1900s to less than 19,000 today. There are 54 herds provincewide, 30 of which are at risk of extinction and 14 have fewer than 25 animals.

The province has committed $27 million to the Caribou Recovery Program that aims to recover and conserve woodland caribou.

The program aims to release a final paper by the end of the year.

Parr says she hopes that predator control will not be included in a new recovery plan for caribou.

“What we’re doing is wrong. Killing hundreds of one species to benefit another is unethical.”

Parr said the province must go beyond culls.

“Ethics aside. Kill all the wildlife you like. It’s not just about saving caribou on the landscape. It should be about preserving functioning ecosystems. Wolves are a smoke screen.”

It’s important to note that wolves are not the only predator of caribou.

A recent study by the University of Victoria says it can be problematic focusing heavily on wolf management as it can leave caribou extremely vulnerable to other predators, such as black bears and coyotes.

To make predator control truly successful governments would have to kill all predators says Parr.

The province notes that killing wolves can increase other prey species, such as moose and deer, which can in turn result in even more wolves. However, the B.C. government wrote in an email that it’s being mitigated by increasing hunting allowances.

They continued that the wolf management program is only a short term solution.

Thompson said there’s no way the predator control program in Revelstoke can be short term. “We need the habitat to go along with it.” While caribou have been declining for decades, there’s been little government policy.

However, Parr expects that to soon change with the federal government. Under the Species at Risk Act the Canadian government could take action, such as further restrict industrial development if they think the provincial government is failing to protect caribou.

One of the hurdles to protecting caribou is potential economic harm. Parr said that is probably one of the reasons why any government has failed to act. And if so, it’s time to be honest about it.

“If we’re allowing the economy to trump species preservation and ecosystems then at least let us be honest about that. And stop killing other species under this false pretense of saving caribou.”

LIAM HARRAP - Surrey Now-Leader

2018 CWWC Christmas Party It was a great time and lots of fun, however we are ready for the New Year!

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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS Letter To Editor FUNDING THE GREAT OUTDOORS RE: “Loving nature to death,” Nov. 22 news story What should be realized about the crisis facing our national parks is that they have no chance of withstanding and evolving to meet visitor demands if our National Park Service does not receive adequate federal funding. Decades of chronic under-funding by Congress has left NPS to do more with less: to handle historic crowds and aging infrastructure with resources that fall far short. The result is a $11.6 billion deferred maintenance backlog, affecting trails, roads, historic structures, national cemeteries, and more and threatening visitor safety and enjoyment at parks nationwide. And the longer “America’s best idea” stands wanting, the heftier the price tag. That’s why Americans should contact their members of Congress today and urge their passage of bipartisan legislation to create reliable, dedicated funding -- to maintain these places that nourish our soul, embody our heritage, and yes, even feed our Instagram accounts.

B. Pahl, Denver ______________________________________________________________ COLORADO’S BENNET WANTS WILDERNESS ACT IN YEAR-END PUBLIC LANDS PACKAGE

by Joe Rubino U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet earlier this year took up the baton in a long effort to secure federal protection for 61,000 acres of wilderness in Colorado’s San Juan Mts. On Tuesday, the Democrat pleaded his case to Senate leadership as to why his San Juan Mts. Wilderness Act bill should be included in a year-end public lands deal now being considered. “The San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act is the product of years of collaboration among local stakeholders in San Miguel, San Juan, and Ouray Counties,” Bennet wrote in a letter to Senate leaders shared by his staff Tuesday afternoon. “It is time for Congress to do its job and more this bill across the finish line.”

The act, introduced by Bennett on April 19, would designate 31,000 acres of land in the southwest Colorado mountain range as protected wilderness and establish another 21,675 acres as a special management area. The area covered includes two fourteeners, Mt. Sneffels and Wilson Peak. In his letter, Bennet said the bill has support from a bipartisan group of local politicians, interest groups including sportsmen and mountain bike clubs and local business interests such as the Telluride Ski Resort and Ouray Silver Mines. “Southwest Colorado cannot wait any longer for Washington to act,” Bennet wrote. Local efforts to protect land around Mt. Sneffels and nearby Lizard Head peak date back to 1999. With the decline of the mining industry in the area, protected land used for recreation is an economic issue in the area. Congress | 6 | COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER

is considering last-minute measures that would reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund that lapsed in October. Some other bills, including Bennet’s, could be added to a package. ______________________________________________________________ DIA WORKERS CARE FOR ABANDONED CARRY-ON FISH Cassie the pink betta fish was spared from a sad and lonely Christmas holiday after Denver International Airport workers took the abandoned fish under their collective wing. Or, uh, fin. Cassie’s owner was traveling from Denver to San Diego for the holidays when she learned that she could not bring the pet fish on her Southwest Airlines flight. The owner left the fish in the boarding area before getting on her plane.

The Transportation Security Administration allows live fish on planes in carry-on bags, but Southwest does not. Airport staff members found Cassie in a portable tank Dec. 12 and turned in the fish to a customer information booth, airport spokeswoman Emily Williams said Wednesday. The fish eventually made it to Williams’ office so she could help reunite Cassie with the owner. Workers fed the fish and made it a holiday card to the critter’s “mom.” “I was just thinking, ‘Please stay alive’,” Williams said. DIA workers eventually connected with the fish’s owner, who arranged for a friend to pick up Cassie on Tuesday. ______________________________________________________________ ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS FILE SUIT TO BLOCK EXPANSION OF RESERVOIR - Boulder County Gross Project Is Being Pursued By Denver Water

by Charlie Brennan Boulder - A coalition of 6 environmental advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Denver challenging the decision of the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a permit for expansion of Gross Reservoir in southwest Boulder County. The project, which is being pursued by Denver Water and would be the largest construction project in the history of Boulder County if it were to go through, is known officially as the Moffat Collection System Project.

Denver Water, which serves 1.4 million customers in the Denver area, but very few in Boulder County, had hoped to start construction next year on the project, which would raise Gross Dam by 131 feet to a height of 471 feet, and increase the capacity of the reservoir by 77,000 acre-feet. It has been estimated that construction would require the removal of as many as 650,000 trees from about 12 1/2 miles of shoreline, although some estimates have put that at a lower number.

The project was issued a permit by the Army Corps of Engineers on July 7, 2017, leaving only a license amendment needed from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

to go forward. That is still pending but could be ruled on at any time. “We’re alleging they violated the National Environmental Protection Act and the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act,” said Gary Wockner, director of Save the Colorado, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. “In layperson’s terms, one is that Denver Water doesn’t need the water. Two is that they failed to look at reasonable alternatives. And three is that they are causing so much damage that they have failed to address or adequately mitigate the damage the project would cause.” Other plaintiffs in the 57-page complaint are The Environmental Group, WildEarth Guardians, Living Rivers, the Waterkeeper Alliance and the Sierra Club. Named as defendants along with the Corps of Engineers are U.S. Secy. of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Margaret Everson, acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Zinke has said he will be stepping down from his post at the end of the year. “The remedy that we’re asking for is for them to stop the project and focus on alternatives,” Wockner said. “By their continued insistence to do this massive environmentally damaging dam expansion that further drains the Colorado River, the only remedy we consider is that they stop. “Denver Water has lots of alternatives to address their needs, and they have purposefully chosen not to do those and instead tried to further drain the Colorado River.” Tom O’Hara, director of public affairs to the Corps of Engineers’ Omaha district office, said, “Unfortunately, Corps policy is we don’t comment on ongoing litigation.” Denver Water CEO Jim Lochhead said it’s important that the expansion project not be sidetracked. “We’re moving forward with the project,” he said. “We’re in a situation where we’re looking to secure our ability to continue to deliver water to 1.4 million people in our service area. We’ve had a couple of times in the last 15 years where we have come very close to running out of water in the north end of the system. We are overly dependent on the south end, and we are literally one catastrophic event or one drought away from not being able to serve all customers.

“We need to move forward with this project. This project is vital to our ability to continue to deliver water.” The project is also subject to an ongoing dispute between Denver Water and Boulder County over whether the project also needs to go through what is known as the county’s “1041” land use review process. The county has contended that it is required to do so, while Denver Water believes it is exempt. “It continues to be our position that the 1041 process does not apply to us, given our previous zoning statue,” Lochhead said. ______________________________________________________________

herd, traveling from spot to spot along U.S. 34, Glade Road and in the neighborhoods on the west side of the Backbone.

“We are convinced he thinks he’s an elk,” said resident Lisa Bounds. “It’s hilarious.” And, according to resident Josiah Engblom, the much-smaller animal stuck very close to one of his friends when he was threatened by a few coyotes.

Engblom, said he saw the elk and the goat bounding through a field on the south side of U.S. 34 on Saturday morning with coyotes in chase. “They did an about-face,” Engblom said. “The elk stood up on his hind legs, boxing up. The goat was right next to the elk for defense. The coyotes just kind of gave up.” Shelley Coldiron saw the goat a week ago and posted its picture on Nextdoor, a social media site that focuses on specific neighborhoods. Since then, people have been sharing photos and sightings of the goat, keeping an eye out for him and “his boys.” “He’s become quite the legend around here,” said Coldiron, who lives in the neighborhood.

“They’re definitely looking out for him.” Suzie Halvorson, who works with Coldiron out of her home near the Backbone, shared a video she took of the goat crossing a road with the much larger elk. He was right in step with the wildlife, as usual, she said. “When they’re walking around, he’s like second or third in line,” Halvorson added. The behavior described by the neighbors is anything but typical for elk, according to information from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

Jason Clay, spokesman for the wildlife agency, said elk keep to themselves and do not usually mingle with other species.

“You don’t typically see them intermix with other animals,” he said, noting that there is a threat of domestic goats spreading disease if they mix with bighorn sheep, also knows to roam that area. “(Elk) really, for the most part, tend to stay by themselves. It doesn’t sound like typical behavior.” But according to residents, this little black goat is anything but typical. They do not know where it came from, though some theorize that a brother and sister ran away from their herd when they were weaned in 2017. At first, some spotted two goats with the herd, but now there is just one. “It seems like someone is missing a black goat,” Bounds said. But who? So far, no one seems to know. What they do know is that the goat appears to be one of the herd now. “its like 5 or 6 ilk and this black oat right up there with them,” Engblom said. “They are inseparable.” ______________________________________________________________

DOMESTIC GOAT JOINS ELK HERD WEST OF LOVELAND - Just One Of The Guys

by Pamela Johnson

Berlin - Plastic knives just won’t cut it any longer, if the European Union has its way. The 28-nation bloc moved closer to banning single-use straws, plates, cutlery and cotton swabs, after officials from EU countries and the European Parliament on Wednesday backed recommendations by its executive branch designed to reduce marine pollution. Environmental campaigners have been calling for curbs on throwaway plastic that’s accumulating in the oceans because, unlike organic materials, it doesn’t decompose but simply breaks down into

A little black goat appears to have joined an elk herd near the Devil’s Backbone, causing wonderment and a bunch of photo snapping among resident in the area. People who have seen the bull elk and the little black goat a few times over the past week said the goat hangs out and runs with the

EUROPE MOVING CLOSER TO AN ON SINGLE-USE PLASTIC

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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS CONTINUED ever smaller pieces. Minuscule particles known as microplastics are being consumed by animals throughout the food chain, though the impact on human health is unclear. “When we have a situation where one year you can bring your fish home in a plastic bag, and the next year you are bringing that bag home in a fish, we have to work fast,” said Karmenu Vella, European commissioner for environment and fisheries. ______________________________________________________________ NEW PICK FOR LEAD FWS President Donald Trump announced late Monday that he intends to nominate a former agrochemical industry official to lead the Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

The selection of Aurelia Skipwith, who worked at Monsanto for six years, to head FWS carries on a Trump administration trend of filling top environmental regulatory positions with officials from companies regulated by the agency. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Skipwith’s duties will include enforcing federal wildlife laws, protecting endangered species, managing migratory birds, and conserving and restoring wildlife habitat.

Environmental and conservation groups largely condemned Skipwith’s nomination, noting that she spent the past year and a half at the Interior Department helping to oversee the administration’s dismantling of wildlife and national monument protections.

Skipwith worked for seed and pesticide giant Monsanto from 2006 to 2012, finishing her time at the company in its corporate affairs department. Skipwith currently serves as deputy assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the Interior Department, where she is responsible for the protection of lands and water in national parks and the wildlife refuge system.

“Ms. Skipwith’s nomination is business as usual for an administration that has sought to reward its allies at the expense of public lands and wildlife,” Chris Saeger, executive director of the Western Values Project, said Tuesday.

Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt (center) listens as President Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on November 1, 2017. CREDIT: Jabin Botsford/ The Washington Post via Getty Images Top Interior official’s ‘modern vision of conservation’ poses threat to Endangered Species Act In a statement, Saeger alluded to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recent announcement that the department would make a “grand pivot to conservation.”

“If appointing a darling of corporate special interest to become the country’s top wildlife manager” is what Zinke intended with his announcement, Saeger said, “then it’s clear he was never serious to begin with.” | 8 | COLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER

The Center for Biological Diversity highlighted the fact that Skipwith has been working in the Trump administration since April 2017. During this time, the department has had a bullseye on protections for migratory birds, endangered species, and national monuments.

“Skipwith will always put the interests of her old boss Monsanto and other polluters ahead of America’s wildlife and help the most anti-environmental administration in history do even more damage,” Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said Tuesday in a statement.

Monsanto was one of almost two dozen major corporations that bankrolledTrump’s inauguration festivities. The company reported giving $25,000 to the inauguration committee.

From June 2017 to August 2018, when he left the Interior Department, Greg Sheehan served as deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and acting head of the agency. Jim Kurth currently serves as deputy director “exercising the authority of the director.”

Skipwith has a master’s degree in molecular genetics from Purdue University and a law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Prior to joining the Trump administration, Skipwith worked as assistant corporate counsel and regulatory affairs coordinator for Alltech Inc., a Kentucky-based company that develops agricultural products for use in livestock and crop farming. According to her LinkedIn page, she also served as co-founder and general counsel of AVC Global, an “agricultural value chain platform.”

She is the first African American ever to be nominated to head FWS. “She has helped lead some of my top priorities for getting more people to enjoy our public lands, like expanding access for hunting and fishing, recognizing National Urban Refuge Day, and designating sites on the African American Civil Rights Network. I look forward to her speedy confirmation,” Zinke said Tuesday in a statement.

Under current U.S. law, the Center for Biological Diversity said a president cannot appoint a person to run FWS unless the person is “by reason of scientific education and experience, knowledgeable in the principles of fisheries and wildlife management.” Skipwith’s nomination breaks with decades of tradition from presidential administrations of both parties “in that she has neither education nor experience in fisheries and wildlife management,” the environmental group said.

In spring of 2017, FWS ended the first nationwide biological reviews that assessed the impacts of pesticides on endangered species. In August, it reversed a 2014 decision prohibiting bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically modified, pesticide-resistant crops on national wildlife refuges.

Ducks Unlimited CEO Dale Hall welcomed Skipwith’s nomination as director of the FWS. “We hope this nomination moves forward quickly,” Hall said Tuesday in a statement.

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Peter, 2 years old, and Paul, 6 years old These Great Pyrenees were abandoned on a highway in southern Colorado. They have never been reclaimed.

Gentle souls, but playful, as most Pyrenees are.

Neutered, vaccinated.

About 120 pounds each.

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