Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Wolves pay for death of Idaho sheep

A wolf pack that roams the south end of Teton Valley, Idaho, has been all but wiped out after a bizarre sheep stampede that’s been blamed on the wild canines. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have killed 13 wolves from the Pine Creek Pack, which occasionally ventures into western Wyoming in the area of Teton Pass, said Todd Grimm, Idaho director of the federal Wildlife Services program, which kills predators that cause damage. “We had already removed 12 by the time this incident had taken place,” Grimm said. “And we’ve got another one since then.” “I can’t believe how many wolves we’ve got in there,” he said. Of the 13 trapped and euthanized wolves, four were adults or sub-adults, Grimm said. Nine of the wolves killed were pups, he said. The pack’s demise was already underway when two wolves thought to be Pine Creek members ventured into a 2,400-head sheep herd early Saturday morning. The herd, owned by the Siddoway Sheep Company of St. Anthony, Idaho, was bedding down on Caribou-Targhee National Forest land between Pole Canyon and Fogg Hill, about 5 miles south of Victor. Running downhill in a panic, about 165 sheep from the Siddoway herd were killed, trampled and smothered in their terror. Two wolves, which were witnessed by a herder at the scene, killed about another dozen sheep. The final tally: 119 lambs and 57 ewes dead. Price tag: $20,000. In the weeks leading to the sheep pileup, the Pine Creek Pack had been actively preying on the Siddoway sheep, Grimm said. “We’ve confirmed 10 other kills in that area this year,” Grimm said...more

Look at it  this way:  Obama and the feds are the wolves and we're the sheep.  Are we heading for a similar pile up?

Idaho's director of Wildlife Services says, "I can't believe how many wolves we've got in there."  Could certainly say the same about the feds.

So where is that little piggy with the brick house?


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