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USFWS Red Wolf Recovery Program Biologist blames "NC Lawmakers"
Below are quotes from T. Delene Beeland's 2013 book "The Secret World of Red Wolves" referenced by page number, followed by Chris Lucash, USFWS Red Wolf Recovery Program quote, blaming the North Carolina Lawmakers for the Hybridization of the Red Wolfs.
- In the beginning, the Fish and Wildlife Service told people that the wolves would not eat deer. It was a partial truth – but also partial lie. (Beeland) (pg 82)
- No one preformed a dietary study on the last remaining red wolves. So in reality, the FWS didn’t know for sure if the reintroduced wolves would eat deer. But they did, and when the deer heads began to be affected by the reintroduced wolves, it only served to heighten the distrust between deer hunters and the red wolf program. “It probably ticked them off because they were paying to hunt those deer,” Kelly says. (Kelly Davis, former biologist at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge) (pg 82)
- In the beginning, Jamin (Simmons) told folks he was “cautiously optimistic: about the program. But later he felt that the red wolf program made a large misstep by telling people that the reintroduced wolves would not eat deer. “As soon as the first wolves were out, people found skeletons or partially eaten ones, and we know they were eating deer, especially the young ones,” he says. Folks in his community were upset and anxious about the deer herds. It added fodder to the government stigma that the wolves bore and widened the gulf of mistrust. (pg 84)
- As a biologist working at Lake Mattamuskeet, Kelly says her supervisors told her, “Don’t tell people the wolves eat deer.” (pg 84)
- Rather then notify the public that the specialized collars were a bust, the red wolf program measured the relative risk that the wolves posed and then decided to quietly let people forget the collars existed, according to Lucash. (Chris Lucash, USFWS biologist / Red Wolf Recovery Team member) (pg 173-174)
Quote From Chris Lucash posted in the News and Observer -
Christopher Lucash - (USFWS) Biologist at Red Wolf Recovery
I want to correct the blame for allowing the coyotes to be live sold within the state: it was not the NCWRC, it was the NC legislature we can thank for that.
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Below are quotes from T. Delene Beeland's 2013 book "The Secret World of Red Wolves" referenced by page number, followed by Chris Lucash, USFWS Red Wolf Recovery Program quote, blaming the North Carolina Lawmakers for the Hybridization of the Red Wolfs.
- In the beginning, the Fish and Wildlife Service told people that the wolves would not eat deer. It was a partial truth – but also partial lie. (Beeland) (pg 82)
- No one preformed a dietary study on the last remaining red wolves. So in reality, the FWS didn’t know for sure if the reintroduced wolves would eat deer. But they did, and when the deer heads began to be affected by the reintroduced wolves, it only served to heighten the distrust between deer hunters and the red wolf program. “It probably ticked them off because they were paying to hunt those deer,” Kelly says. (Kelly Davis, former biologist at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge) (pg 82)
- In the beginning, Jamin (Simmons) told folks he was “cautiously optimistic: about the program. But later he felt that the red wolf program made a large misstep by telling people that the reintroduced wolves would not eat deer. “As soon as the first wolves were out, people found skeletons or partially eaten ones, and we know they were eating deer, especially the young ones,” he says. Folks in his community were upset and anxious about the deer herds. It added fodder to the government stigma that the wolves bore and widened the gulf of mistrust. (pg 84)
- As a biologist working at Lake Mattamuskeet, Kelly says her supervisors told her, “Don’t tell people the wolves eat deer.” (pg 84)
- Rather then notify the public that the specialized collars were a bust, the red wolf program measured the relative risk that the wolves posed and then decided to quietly let people forget the collars existed, according to Lucash. (Chris Lucash, USFWS biologist / Red Wolf Recovery Team member) (pg 173-174)
Quote From Chris Lucash posted in the News and Observer -
Christopher Lucash - (USFWS) Biologist at Red Wolf Recovery
I want to correct the blame for allowing the coyotes to be live sold within the state: it was not the NCWRC, it was the NC legislature we can thank for that.
Reply · Like · December 8, 2013 at 1:30pm
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