Dear HCN:
Just a few thoughts on
reintroduction of the Mexican wolf.
Al
Schneberger of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association is correct
when he says, “This isn’t about wolves. It’s about control.”
However, I see it as ranchers doing the controlling. They control
not only the public lands but every aspect of anything that people
want to do on that land. It’s not the bureaucrats that want the
Mexican wolf back, Mr. Schneberger, it’s the overwhelming majority
of the people.
The USDA 1992 Agricultural
Statistics Board shows the following losses of cattle and calves
from all causes: respiratory, 30 percent; calving, 14 percent;
digestive, 21 percent; weather, 7 percent; unknown, 16 percent;
other, 10 percent; predators, 2 percent. Enough already of the old
song and dance that predators put livestock growers at serious
economic risk.
Carol
Buchanan
Norwood,
Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Enough already, ranchers.
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