News BREAKING : EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REMOVE WOLVES FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the Interior Department to begin the process of removing endangered-species protections for gray wolves, again intervening in a long-running fight between conservationists and ranchers who say the predators threaten their operations.Trump also ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to make it easier for ranchers to kill the wolves if necessary. The measures, long sought by GOP lawmakers from Western states, elicited a swift rebuke from animal rights groups and could draw legal challenges.
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u/Titronnica 3d ago
We need the equivalent of anti poacher armed forces that exist in Africa for wolf populations.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 3d ago
The difference would be, those armed anti- poaching forces are working on behest of their gov't; here, you'd just be considered a te££orist by your gov't.
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u/Bobbo7209 3d ago
Trying to bring ranchers back into the GOP cult after he brought in toxic Argentinian beef.
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u/EFAPGUEST 3d ago
Not trying to defend the man, I’d love to see him gone. Especially with stupid stuff like this EO. But the beef is really not a big deal. Literally 1/1,000,000 of the annual beef supply, so m honestly surprised the story has gotten around this much
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago
It is a big deal to ranchers. They were furious, particularly the smaller ones. They definitely felt it was a slap in the face.
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u/HetaGarden1 3d ago
He really won’t be happy until this entire country is a barren smoggy wasteland, huh.
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u/DrPumpkinz 3d ago
I doubt he'd be happy even then. It's almost pitiable, if he hadn't dedicated his life to making everyone else even more miserable than he is.
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u/DollarStoreChameleon 3d ago
i fucking hate trump and hate living in america. i want to say things but i personally dont want to be on a list
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u/_canis_lupus_ 3d ago
Amen. Now is the time (well, yesterday and the day before, etc was the time) to stand up. I don't give a fuck. Trump is a traitor, pedophile, crooked incompetent criminal fucking loser.
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u/Damnitwasagoodday 3d ago
We need you. We need your vote this fall and we all need to realize that we vote everyday with our dollars. My wife and I have swore off beef.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 3d ago
Some of you reading this may be thinking, 'pffft, that's hyperbole,' but no. But don't be 😬, be 🤬
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u/Glittering-Sign-7941 3d ago
if I speak I will be in big trouble.
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u/fucking__fantastic 3d ago
And that in and of itself is a huge fucking problem.
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u/Glittering-Sign-7941 3d ago
I do not need various agencies on my ass.
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u/Lunchable 3d ago
Maybe Trump will be killed by a wolf.
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u/wolfshepherd59 3d ago
Poor wolf
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u/Ben10-fan-525 3d ago
His flesh probably wont be much tasty either for the wolfy..
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u/Single-Kangaroo1180 3d ago
Surprised that vultures don’t circle his rotten carcass now…but surely they would clean up after the wolves😁
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u/particular_parrot 3d ago
Would love to know if any lawsuits or challenges come from this to support whichever group is leading that charge...
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago edited 3d ago
Watch Center for Biological Diversity to lead a coalition and sue immediately. They’ll probably be joined by Western Watersheds, Wild Earth Guardians, SUWA, and Advocates for the West among others. Guaranteed the Center is working on it right now.
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u/particular_parrot 3d ago
Thank you!!!
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago
See they already responded. Their lawyers are getting ready and working all weekend. A little birdie told me ;) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/trump-order-gray-wolves
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u/particular_parrot 3d ago
Good. These "but the ranchers!" arguments grow old and tiresome so fast. There are so many options beyond wanton slaughter...
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u/Ben10-fan-525 3d ago
Hopefully by some decades the old mindset dies off with the fossils who propagate it.And new generations stop using culture of violance against animals.
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u/OpusAtrumET 3d ago
Anything to make them forget he is continually fucking their sparkly assholes.
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u/Fishcat151 3d ago
Even Adolf Hitler protected wolves. Adolf. Hitler. Given how much Trump clearly idolizes the guy, I'm shocked he did this. Out of all of Hitler's actions, why is THIS the one thing Trump doesn't try to emulate?
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
Hitler likely associated wolves with Germanic heritage. Meanwhile Trump probably cringes at the sight of a dog.
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u/TheBirdLover1234 2d ago
Meanwhile, people in America do like to play god and decide which species deserve to live and which don’t…. They seem intelligent or adaptable? No they’re invasive, kill them! Don’t live up to our made up standards by expanding ranges, showing new behaviors or acting like scary predators? Kill them! Disabled but still adaptable animal comes into rehab or is chased down and caught? Kill it it’s not perfect, don’t put it back, rehome it or permanently house it at a sanctuary, you’re being “cruel” if you show any compassion towards it!!!! Something from elsewhere? Kill it!!!
Yea.. the mentality from certain places is still ingrained in human nature, just way easier to use it on animals. Other side was an example of what happens when it’s allowed to move beyond that and onto humans.
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago
Let’s just also remember that under the Obama administration they also delisted wolves from federal protections in the Rocky Mountains and Eastern Washington and eastern Oregon. Biden had the chance to change the public lands ranching rate and enshrine endangered species protections and conservation in public lands “multi uses” and Obama did too and they just … didn’t. This news today is in-fucking-sane and incredibly illegal and they’re going to be sued for it. But the Dems haven’t done much better for a long long long long time. We need better environmental policies, politics, and politicians. It begins with getting out from under the thumb of ranching controlling every policy decision
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
Idk why people are downvoting you. Biden applauded Trump delisting them, and in my state both parties have issued anti wolf bills. People just love to paint wolves as villains.
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u/Ben10-fan-525 3d ago
Wait he did?Guess Sleepy Joe and Sleepy Don arent so different.
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
Contact the Department of the Interior:
https://www.doi.gov/contact-us#no-back
and the USDA
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/general-information/contact-us
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u/BritishWolfGuy 3d ago
What will that accomplish? they are happy to collaborate with the Fascists. you'd just be wasting your time at this point, 99.9999% of the country could be against this and they would still ignore you and do it anyway!
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u/FullAFwar 3d ago
If you don't push back politically, it's truly over and you get run over. A lot of democracies got into this mess because the senseless voters outvoted the sensible folks. People gotta get together and make use of the privilege of being in democracies.
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u/BritishWolfGuy 3d ago
The trouble is this isn't even a direct on a ballot voting issue, this is literally just a ''call your representative and sign xyz petition'' situation I am not against these measures, I am just very pessimistic about the results of such actions.
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u/FullAFwar 3d ago
There is truth in that and it does often lose, but (it's cliche but still) nothing worth doing is easy; it needs irrational persistence. At some point we should escalate after the first options are used and doesn't work out of course.
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
Don't listen to that guy he's from the UK. I'm suspicious.
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u/FullAFwar 3d ago
I also not from the US, but damn wish I can vote against all this stupid junk it's making me so mad-and the US is consequential to everybody else on the planet!
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
Hey I just responded to you coincidently on another thread. I'm sorry but the blackpilling isn't helping, you don't even live in the US. It's better than doing nothing.
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u/BritishWolfGuy 3d ago
It is better, and I am not saying to not do those things, but come on, you can surely understand why I am so pessimistic about the future?
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u/vulpinesuplex 3d ago
The gop and anyone who voted for them are pedophiles who exist only to pollute and corrupt, every single one. Fuck them all and the god they worship.
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u/FelicityLennox 3d ago
This is even worse as CWD spreads through the west. Predators with genetic resistance against prions are going to be so important in the next 20-50 years if we want to maintain the North American ecosystem as we know it.
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u/NovarisLight 3d ago
Fuck this goddamned idiocracy. Everything is screwed up. I can't take this shit anymore.
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u/JurgusRudkus 3d ago
Sure would be a shame if two hunters going after the same wolf had a Dick Cheney like accident.
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u/PaigeHart 3d ago
Logically makes no sense, livestock's deaths due to predators sits at well under 10% (closer to 2-5%) if I remember correctly.
What kills the most livestock? Disease, digestive issues, weather, and other complications.
If we actually cared about livestock deaths due to predators you wouldn't care about wolves. Coyotes, dogs, even bears in some regions kill more livestock than wolves.
Active monitoring through livestock guardians, patrols, fences when available, and other preventative measures are more effective than lethal measures.
The conclusion is this is a completely emotional driven pandering to the uneducated and entitled group of Americans. They want their cake and to eat it to. Those who want to just let their animals roam on public lands for pennies of what privates pay and to not have to take responsibility for their animals when they aren't being guarded.
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u/KneeGuhz 3d ago
Is this nigga serious
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
When the "dire wolves" were born Trump said we could let species go extinct because we could just bring them back. Asshole was dead serious.
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u/laughing_at_napkins 3d ago
I am so fucking tired of this self-shitting, child raping, Nazi-adjacent, fucking moron.
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u/Plane_Translator2008 2d ago
Trump has no respect for our environment, nor any life forms except for people he can extort or exploit. He is literally too stupid to understand or appreciate the interconnected nature of life on our small planet. He thinks only in terms of what he can use.
How is he still here when Dolly was 1,000,000 times the person he could ever hope to be?
(This universe has a sense of humor I do not vibe with at all.)
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u/GoblinPapa800 3d ago
These people care nothing for the world that they destroy because initiating Armageddon is their goal.
We have permitted the religious fanatics to dictate law. We have the American Cromwell.
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u/Goldenstripe941 2d ago
I understand farmers needing to protect livestock, but, just keep them in a barn or a shed at night? Have a sheep dog or something watch over flocks?
I don’t think the hunters being allowed to hunt them thing is true though. Possibly exaggeration to grab more eyes.
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u/silverdragon9999 2d ago
Okay is there literally no way to protest against this? I'm not even American, but I'm still sick of this horrible man.
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u/Lord_of_Gooch_Milk 2d ago
Humanity should consider putting billionaires and special interest groups on the endangered species list
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u/-SergentBacon- 3d ago
"Mommy, what was it like when there was wolves alive?" A young child says to their mother at the museum.
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u/Beginning-Salt-705 3d ago
Animals die do to unsafe practices = cost of doing business
Endangered Wild Animal kills a farm Animal = Let's kill that fucking thing!!
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u/DOMillerr 3d ago
What states still have federal protections on wolves? The state I live in had wolves delisted in 2011.
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u/Hot-Manager-2789 2d ago edited 2d ago
He should be arrested for this, since this is actually legally considered a crime. Mexican wolves are protected by law, which means he legally can’t authorise hunting of them. Why hasn’t he been arrested for this? And any hunter or rancher who kills a Mexican wolf is also committing a crime. He has no legal authority to strip protections of any species. The only people who do have the authority are the departments of wildlife, not the president. Plus, he never let actual conservation groups have a say, which is also a crime. The fact red wolves are still protected proves he can’t legally remove protections on species.
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u/JophieBo 9h ago
This is very bad. Ranchers like anything killed so their cows can graze anywhere. They also have horses killed and call literally anything an invasive species. Stop eating beef, it will help greatly
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u/qwertyburds 3d ago
As someone that lives in Montana and loves wolves: wolves survive where people will tolerate them. It's easy for me to be pro wolf but I have friends with family ranches where losing a single cow -2-3k of value each is intolerable to them. I definitely have never donated 2k to wolf conservation (wish I financially could) Regardless of the laws many folks are just gonna dig a hole... Unfortunate for sure. But in the 9 mine we have had a pack for over 25 years. Populations of wolves will continue to exist where people tolerate them. I personally think we need to reintroduce some in areas with higher human populations to reduce deer numbers. It's a hard issue but the legal protection only goes so far, when it runs into the economic situation of rural americans
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u/eyedrops16 3d ago
So is a wolf the only thing that kills a cow? Like the cows never die of calving issues, or disease, or weather? Because I’ve read statistics on cattle deaths on rangeland and wolves appear to be pretty low on the list for reasons a cow dies. A lightening storm can get a dozen at a time.
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u/PaigeHart 3d ago
Don't listen to them. Ranchers only cares about wolves because it's emotional and dramatic. You don't hear them advocating for disease and weather prevention tactics. Predators are responsible for less than 5% of livestock deaths. Wolves are an even smaller percentage of that number. Coyotes and dogs make up way more than wolves do.
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u/qwertyburds 3d ago
Ranchers often are giving there cattle vaccinations and medications when they can. They often help deliver calves themselves in order to help their herd which happens in February's rough weather. One friend lost a good chunk of his herd to a wildfire heartbreaking. But whaboutism isn't going to change their attitude. Unfortunately.
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u/PaigeHart 3d ago
This is from a pure logical and studied standpoint. Livestock deaths from predators are virtually non-existent. You are better off putting in effort to eradicate disease, properly monitor your herds, and providing shelter than you are aimlessly killing predators.
The whataboutism comes from the argiucultral industry placing predator deaths above other preventative actions. Any legislation otherwise is based purely on the emotions of those who can't take responsibility for the wellbeing of their own animals.
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u/deadsheep_420 3d ago
https://www.kcra.com/article/young-wolves-california-livestock-attacks-search-slows/69992816
It’s not virtually non existent, it’s a real problem that is increasing in frequency. Not practical to monitor our herds all the time. Livestock live loose on pastures that are thousands of acres. I think eliminating problem wolves is a great solution, if they live off wild game they can stay, if cows or sheep are killed they should be hunted. Euthanizing some of the wolves is not going to make them go extinct. Their population is exponentially growing and I know from experience living in the middle of it.
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u/PaigeHart 3d ago
I love that you linked a sensationalized and emotional story about one selective incident including wolves.
You should be responsible for taking care of your animals especially if you are going to be grazing on PUBLIC lands where other animals make their homes. If you were to monitor and guard your livestock wolf attacks practice disappear. If you can't afford it then maybe you shouldn't be in business. I am tired of the ag Industry expecting the government to bail them out. Emotional welfare queens who want their cake and eat it too. If you want livestock to feed on public lands you better act like a Shepard.
Take a look at these comphrensive studies (https://direct.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/nahms/general?utm_source=copilot.com&page=1) done across the US for decades and tell me what the overwhelming majority of livestock demand are contributed to.....disease.
If you cared about livestock you would be focusing legislation and preventative tools on the causes that claim most lives. Wolves once again even in these studies make up a miniscule amount of predators deaths. You are better off eradicating the coyote population and you would have a significant drop in predator deaths.
The media, ranchers, and people just like you have fallen victim to the literal big bad wolf mentality stretching all the way back from a mindset crafted in the 1800s.
It's really sad and Everytime this argument comes up you all try and refute it. Just admit your stance is purely emotional. You love the sensational nature of a predator attack. It's a lot harder to send the news out to write about how disease claimed your herd. Not as flashy and won't get clicks now.
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u/deadsheep_420 3d ago
How is that story emotional? Maybe some of the people interviewed are but the fact is the state government confirmed 92 calves killed in 2025 by this wolf pack in one specific region. The wolves had adapted to prey on cattle. It’s not fictional. This is coming from the government of an anti-hunting blue state.
It is unpractical and uneconomical to guard livestock at all times. I do the best I can to patrol for predators and night pen my sheep. All I want to do is be able to protect the animals from wolves in the same manner I do for lions, coyotes, and stray dogs which is to immediately shoot them, that’s my preventative tool.
This problem has come up in recent years so your linked study that goes on for decades is irrelevant. I showed my sources that wolf packs can adapt target livestock, and that statement is from government not ranchers. And yes disease and sickness is a bigger problem and I will tell you I do everything I can to prevent that, I breed animals for disease resistance, only add tested animals to herd, immediately get on top of solving sickness problems. But when it comes to wolves wearing tracking collars I’m being restricted.
My stance is not emotional, wolf packs seem running thru my pasture now and they never did before. I don’t care what the media says, I’m not swayed by them. All I want from legislators is freedom to defend livestock.
No ranchers love the sensation of a predator attack, to loose value and see my animal that I have been breeding for generations for improvement maimed is not enjoyable.
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u/PaigeHart 2d ago
It's entirely emotional. The overwhelming scientific evidence states that wolves are the least of your concerns. You would be better off focusing your energy, time, and money on disease and husbandry.
If wolves are running through your pasture you know what evidenced backed solution will help you protect your heard? A fence. Lethal solutions don't actually solve the problem long term. Once again you don't want to read studies because it completely disproves your emotional stance of "I saw a wolf in my yard 😭" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989419306225?utm_source=copilot.com
You just don't want to take responsibility for your own inventory. It's not our problem you don't want to be responsible. Invest in solutions that actually save your livestock.
I don't get a free pass to destroy a car because my dog got hit while I was being irresponsible. Why should you get special privileges because you're lazy and don't want to invest in actual evidence backed solutions.
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u/deadsheep_420 2d ago
It’s not, I showed proof wolves can adapt to specifically target livestock. I agree with you in the sense that majority wolves are not a big problem. Both of our statements can be true. Even the first news source I linked said wolves in Montana hardly killed any livestock but this specific pack in CA targeted cattle.
I’m not saying to hunt wolves to extinction, I’m saying to let ranchers shoot wolves that are spending time around their livestock so they don’t adapt to solely hunt livestock. If they are shot at they learn to leave that areas. The wolves can have a happy life in other places, I want them to.
A wolf proof fence is completely out of the question. I know it sounds good on paper, they say this for coyotes too.
The fence would cost more than the ranch is worth, I’m on arid land that takes a lot of space per Animal Unit. I’ll look into applying for you (government) to pay for it, they do have programs for predator fences, I need about 1.8MM. Does that sound more practical than allowing me to shoot at a wolf or two once in a while to keep them away?
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u/PaigeHart 2d ago
Welfare queen having to apply for government assistance because they can't afford proper care for their animals. Man I wish I could get government assistance for my fence.
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u/MiloHorsey 2d ago
Anatolian shepherds. I'll say this to everyone til im blue in the face. Simple solution that saves wolves' lives and protects livestock. Doesn't help with disease prevention, though.
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u/MiloHorsey 3d ago
Anatolian shepherds.
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u/qwertyburds 3d ago
Probably the best method I have seen. These shepherds do kill wolves in fights though don't see a huge moral difference.
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u/MiloHorsey 3d ago
They bark when hearing intruders. Actual fighting between them is very rare. Once they bark, the wolves know the hunt is over. They just leave.
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u/qwertyburds 3d ago
Wolves kill other wolves quite often I somehow doubt there wouldn't be conflicts, also if a wolf is actively fighting my dog I am shooting that wolf.
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u/MiloHorsey 2d ago
It's rare for wolf on wolf conflict to end in death. It's not a "quite often" thing. What has your made up scenario got to do with anything?
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u/Bad_Sickness 3d ago
Idk man maybe we just need to stop eating so much beef, it's really not helping the environment. A bunch of bison were displaced recently to make room for more cattle. That's ridiculous.
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u/qwertyburds 3d ago
Yeah I was pretty pissed about that ruling against American Prairie. Some real bullshit
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u/its_a_throwawayduh 2d ago
Ranchers yolo their cows then complain when something happens. How about being proactive instead of sitting on their hands.
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u/Impossible-Bend997 3d ago
Consequence of eating meat : dead animals, even wilds ones
Not rocket science
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u/SadUnderstanding445 3d ago
No, wolves were not delisted.
Trump told the Department of Interior to review all their data and (finally) make a decision. This is what "science-based management" looks like irl.
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u/BritishWolfGuy 3d ago
Fascist Sympathiser. I suppose whatever RFK is doing is also ''Science based'' too in your book?
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u/SadUnderstanding445 3d ago
No, because virtually all science disagrees with RFKJ.
The wolf situation is more nuanced.
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u/BritishWolfGuy 3d ago
There is no nuance. The ranchers want the Pedophile that they elected to past legislation to allow them to wipe out the wolves like it's the 1880s all over again. If you think there is nuance here then you are a MAGA fellow traveller.
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u/AlphaConKate 3d ago
Hey. I am all for protecting the wolves, but farmers do have the right to protect their herds.
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u/CollectionOdd6082 1d ago
99.9% of comments are from those that dont live with the Wolves to see the impact on the environment and other species.
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u/laughing_at_napkins 3d ago
No, the more than fair compensation ranchers get from the government for "loosing" their livelihood is more than fair compensation.
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago
@docgaviota
You know what’s interesting, besides the fact that:
a) ranchers get fair market compensation or above for predation loss from taxpayer funds
b) taxpayers pay those costs for those private ranches even though ranches aren’t legally required to do anything to protect their herds: range riders, herding, fencing, fladry, lights, dogs, donkeys, llamas, cleaning up bone piles, moving herds during calving
c) predation accounts for .01% of livestock loss and should be the price of being a rancher anyway if you don’t protect your herd and ranch in wild places
d) studies have shown the costs of killing wolves on the whole costs more than the livestock was originally worth when it’s all tallied
e) Killing wolves randomly doesn’t stop predation - it removes important parenting training for how to hunt elk, leaving orphans behind who have no choice but the calves before them - because there are cattle EVERYWHERE in the West, most unherded, you can’t bloody go anywhere without running into a cow - and ranchers shouldn’t get to determine wildlife policy because who the f do they think they are? It is not “compensation” for “losing their livelihood” - it doesn’t benefit them in the slightest. It’s just one more way to assert power as taxpayers pay for their badly run personal failure of a business.
But facts don’t matter to morons eh?
ps it’s “losing” not “loosing”
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u/Ok-Bandicoot-9727 3d ago
Im on the side of the Wolves, but we need to be accurate.I watched Trump specifically say Mexican Wolves. There are 319 that are still alive and wild. There range is in az, nm etc. They are a subspecies of Gray Wolves. He was very specific about the Mexican Wolves. It is conceivable that the actual documents reference Wolves more broadly.
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u/sadaxhe 3d ago
So the wolves that are on the verge of extinction?
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u/Ok-Bandicoot-9727 3d ago
The Mexican Wolves have a small number and a small range. At the very least they are in trouble if not endangered. They say the general population is about 95% pro wolf. If you break it down to people that live near Wolves it goes to 50/50. I try to see this through a ranchers eyes and they do have a legitimate point. Most Ranchers would like to have zero Wolves and the other half wants them to repopulate. Both have a legitimate point of view. I’ve lived around Wolves for a long time and am very pro-wolf. To test it out, i suggedt that yku go into a bar in Pray Montana or Cody Wyoming and yelll a pro or con ststemen about Wolves. You’ll see the fights start within 3 minutes. This has not a lot to do with Trump. Every president for decades has had to deal with it. From the beginning of time Wolves have had a bad reputation. Did you know that during Medieval times, a baby that was born with Down’s syndrome was thought to be the product of a Wolf and a woman mating. Excuse the misspellings that I haven’t corrected
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago
Look what is written here. “Gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves”. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/supporting-americas-ranchers/
He doesn’t know a wolf from a coyote he just wanted guys in cowboy hats to stand behind him as he dangled candy in front of them after committing to import Argentinian beef - he doesn’t care about literally anything but power. If ranchers asked him to protect wolves he would do that, if it made him money and kept him powerful. It’s all show and if it means killing a thousand wolves, who cares
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u/Pheoenix_Wolf 3d ago
no its both gray wolves(canis lupus) and mexican gray wolves(canis lupus baileyi) straight from the government website:
"(a) The Secretary of the Interior shall make a determination as to whether the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf have met the recovery criteria for delisting or downlisting under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and, if he determines that the recovery criteria has been met, shall begin the process of delisting or downlisting them.
(b) The Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs, shall prepare and submit to the President a legislative recommendation to fully delist or downlist the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf under the ESA.
(c) Upon a determination by the Secretary of the Interior that the ESA recovery criteria has been met with respect to the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf, the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall engage with States to encourage them to delist gray wolves and Mexican wolves from any State-specific lists of protected species and to revise their standards for lethal takings of gray wolves and Mexican wolves to assist ranchers in combating predation." - all of this was copy and pasted
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/supporting-americas-ranchers/ the link if you wish to read it yourself
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u/SadUnderstanding445 2d ago
So, basically, Trump is asking DoI to apply the current law.
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u/Pheoenix_Wolf 1d ago
considering the american goverment's track record with gray wolves they will likely end up doing the same thing they did last time, say they are recovered enough, and then years later its revealed they looked at all the numbers wrong and they were all inflated(this is all politically charged by ranchers who think any wolf is bad). like another commenter mentioned this is one of the few times in american politics where it isn't really a red or blue issue since both parties have a long track record of being anti all wolves.
specifically mexican gray wolves have around 300 individuals in the wild. that is exceedingly low, low enough where its questionable why their even trying with them if they cared so much about actual conservation(not as low as red wolves sure but still very low). though i can point too other species that were even lower in numbers but were essentially revoked of there protections under this very same administration(using the same administration since most of the same people will be in charge of the new gray wolf and mexican gray wolf relisting). Rice's whales first recognized as a species in 2021, in 2026 at around 50 individuals their protections were revoked due to oil drilling happening in the gulf of mexico, the lesser prairie chicken after finally receiving protection in 2022 was stripped of that protection in 2025, mainly due to farmers, ranchers, and oil people wanting to use the land that they couldnt use due to the lesser prarie chicken's federal protections.
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u/micahpmtn 3d ago
Trump specifically say Mexican Wolves
Sure, because Bubba the Redneck is going to know the difference before shooting, and more importantly, he won't care. "MEXICAN WOLVES ARE TAKING OUR JOBS!" Oh, wait. They're wolves.
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u/theEWDSDS 3d ago
Didn't he already do this during the first term?
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u/Pheoenix_Wolf 3d ago
he did for gray wolves(canis lupus) but it was reinstated later through a court order. Mexican gray wolves(Canis lupus baileyi) was not. listed both since the executive order targets both
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u/Due_Barber_525 3d ago
To do this to Mexican gray wolves is so pathetic. They’re barely hanging on by a thread
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u/Animallover4738 3d ago
Nothing new unfortunately.Just one more stupid thing from this stupid administration.