Wolves have come to be the symbol of Gia the goddess of the earth and placed on their throne by the Walter Mitty’s of the animal right kingdom. You can’t read an outdoor news site without something about wolves. Last summer a pack killed at jogger in Alaska, they have destroyed the caribou herd on Unimak Island in Alaska, and in Northern Rockies something like 1600 to 1700 grey wolves have trashed the elk and deer herds. Yet the animal rights kingdom believes these cuddly little balls of fur need federal protection. Their numbers far exceed the original goals set by USFW. “The recovery goal for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains was set at a minimum of 30 breeding pairs-successfully reproducing wolf packs and a minimum of 300 individual wolves for at least three consecutive years.” 1
Those numbers were reached in 2002 today there five times a many wolves as in 2002. So why does Earth Justice think the Northern Rockies wolf packs need the protection of the ESA? Because Wyoming was placed back on the endangered species list they feel all of the Northern Rocky manage as a single entity. At least that was their argument to Montana’s Judge Molloy last month. USFW believe grey wolves have recovered. “By every biological measure, the region’s gray wolf population is fully recovered,” an April U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report said. 2
Five state involved believe the grey wolf populations have recovered. It is only a few members of the animal rights kingdom that feel the benevolent and companionate wolves need protection from the evil hunter.

Horse hockey, let me spell something out here wolves are predators they kill to live. They kill to teach their young to kill to kill so they will live. They are opportunistic killers they will take what ever they can whenever they feel the need. The idea they only take the sick and lame is absolute garbage. They will take a newborn calf and is mother before she has recovered from calving. Wolves have no sense of fair chase, humane kill is not in their vocabulary, and most importantly wolves do not feed people. Ungulates feed people so why aren’t they the ones being protected? By definition most hunters hunt for sport, with a few exceptions, they hunt for food. Contrary to popular belief hunters do not kill because the opportunity presented itself. The few people who do kill just to kill are not hunters they are thieves stealing from the rest of us. I hope when Judge Molloy makes his decision  on the Northern Rocky wolves he chooses to protect the interest of the consumptive users. The idea that wildlife is there for a minority to look at is bull. Wildlife is a resource a renewable resource that should be managed to meet human needs. If Earth Justice wants to watch wolves they should go to Ted Turners ranch where wolves are protected. Maybe they will be able to watch a pack take down an elk and eat it alive.

1 The Clark Fork Chronicle
Wednesday, July 14 2010
2 By Bailey Schreiber, Jackson Hole, Wyo., and The Associated Press
June 16, 2010

Fairbanks woman reels in 199.5-pound halibut not once, but twice
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com
Fairbanks Daily Newsminer

FAIRBANKS — This is a story about the big one that didn’t get away. Actually, it did get away for a little while, but it came back.Melody Dalbec, of Fairbanks, caught a 199.5-pound halibut in Valdez on Saturday not once, but twice. After it escaped the first time, she brought it to the side of the charter boat she was fishing on, the Dan Orion.
“Once we got a good look at him, the captain got a little excited,” Dalbec said of captain Dave Wiley. “He harpooned him, and the next thing
I know, the line broke, the harpoon came out and the fish was gone with my lure and my line.”
This was how Wiley described it: “It thrashed around so hard the dart ripped back out of the halibut and it ran back under the bottom of the boat and the line broke.”
Disappointed but not deterred, an exhausted Dalbec — it had taken her about 30 minutes to get the fish to the surface — grabbed another rod and continued fishing.
It wasn’t long before she and two other fishermen got their lines tangled and captain Dave Wiley told the three anglers, one of which was Dalbec’s husband, Randy, to reel their lines in so he could untangle the mess.
“It was obvious when we were reeling in that we had something,” Dalbec said. “I could feel my husband reeling, but there was no pressure on my line.”
When Dalbec and the other two fishermen finally got their cluster of lines and sinkers reeled in to the point where Wiley could untangle them, the captain noticed a fourth line.
“I started pulling the mess over the side, and there was another line in the snarl going over the side,” Wiley said. “I looked down and there’s that great big fish a few feet past the snarl.”
That much was obvious because the fish had guts falling out of the hole where Wiley had harpooned it the first time, as well as the lure still in its mouth.
“Sure as tootin’, it was my fish,” Dalbec said. “I looked at (Wiley) and he said, ‘Wow, I’ve never experienced anything like this before.’”
The fish was the biggest halibut caught during the 11-day Halibut Hullabaloo Tournament, earning Dalbec two tickets anywhere Alaska Airlines flies. The fish also was big enough to take the lead in the Valdez Halibut Derby, which would be worth $15,000 if her catch holds up until the end of the derby on Sept. 5.
Chances are slim that will happen, considering the smallest fish to win the derby since it started in 20 years ago is a 210-pounder back in 1992 and six of the past seven winners have been more than 300 pounds. But that doesn’t bother Dalbec.“I’m just tickled,” Dalbec said. “It’s a story I’ll tell my grandkids forever.”
The fish came up a half-pound shy of the 200-pound mark when it was weighed, and Dalbec said it probably would have been more than 200 pounds had they been able to get it on the boat the first time she caught it. “It had to be down there an hour bleeding out with entrails dragging behind it,” she said.
It was only Dalbec’s second time halibut fishing. The charter was a gift from friend and fellow dart team member Alison Koss, who won a raffle for a two-person charter last winter.
“It was either a bear gun or a halibut charter,” Dalbec said of Koss’ prize. “She won the raffle and took me as a friend.”Dalbec’s husband, Randy, and friend Case Sanders, another dart team member, joined them.“We got the trip on luck, and we got the fish on luck,” said Dalbec, a 41-year-old special education secretary at North Pole Elementary School. “It was a wonderful trip.”
In addition to catching her big halibut twice, Dalbec also reeled in a two-for-one special when she caught a rock fish that was in the mouth of a ling cod. While she could have kept the rock fish, the ling cod wouldn’t let go of the smaller fish so she tossed them both back.“He wanted it more than me,” Dalbec said of the ling cod.

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/8031378/article-Fairbanks-woman-reels-in-199-5-pound-halibut-not-once–but-twice?

Get ready it won’t be long before Chuck and his co-horts will be out to set up a data base and instant check on everyone’s antler collection.

Man allegedly stabs another with antlers

Anchorage Daily News

Published: July 1st, 2010 11:08 PM
Last Modified: July 1st, 2010 11:09 PM

An Anchorage man is accused of stabbing his roommate with deer antlers that he pulled off the wall in the heat of an argument. Jesse Harris, 27, was charged with domestic violence felony assault.
Police say that just after 3 p.m. Thursday they got calls from neighbors about the disturbance in the 2400 block of Douglas Drive in Turnagain. A man was calling for help, a neighbor told police.
When police arrived, they found the victim suffering from stab wounds to his back and ankle. The victim was not seriously hurt.
Police say the men were arguing about the ownership of a vehicle.