Wolf hater Jim Beers has no credibility. He’s not an M.D., veterinarian, biologist, epidemiologist. He’s a former, forced to retire USFW employee.

 Was head of “Animal Damage Control” now “Wildlife Services” — USFW’s  wildlife exterminators. Kills wildlife determined a “nuisance” via aerial gunning, traps, snares, poisons. 2004-2008 tax dollars paid for killing of 696,936 coyotes,1,456 wolves, numerous raccoons, cougars, bobcats, bears and indiscriminately over 500 dogs and 1,800 cats.

Wildlife Services even sinks to digging coyote, wolf pups from dens to club, shoot, decapitate.

Beers supports what he calls Michael Vick’s and others’ “inalienable right” to conduct dog fighting. He further claims the Endangered Species Act, and wolf reintroductions under it, illegal. Act was passed in 1973 with nearly unanimous congressional support, signed 12/28/73 by President Nixon. Dog fighting is felony in most states misdemeanor in rest.

Beers now is using unsubstantitated scare tactics in his anti-wolf campaign, stating tapeworms carried by wolves are a serious danger to humans so kill all wolves. Biologists at IDFG, Montana

Fish/Wildlife/Parks, USDA/USFW, Yellowstone N.P., in the Oct. 2009 Journal of Wildlife Diseases indicate low human threat. Humans must ingest parasite eggs passed in feces of infected canine to become infected.

Get credible info from William J. Foreyt, et. al. 2009 Echinococcus granulosos in gray wolves and ungulates in Idaho and Montana, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 45(4):1208-1212 and http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/wildlife/manage_issues/ech inococcus.cfm

PHIL POUTRE

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