The yahoo
jihad at the wildlife refuge in Oregon is part and parcel of the larger
problem across the public lands of the West including here in Colorado.
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| A better understanding of our prime predators will help us confront some aspects of climate change. |
Ranchers aren’t
just occupying that federal building in Oregon, they’ve been occupying our
public lands across the West for over a century and that occupation has been
armed, violent and completely subsidized by state and federal taxpayers.
Read Gary Wockner’s story on EcoWatch - “Oppose Welfare Ranching, Not Wolves.”
(Our misunderstanding
of public versus private and our general affinity for the latter contradicts
the behaviour we need to abide if we are to have any chance of truly mitigating
the processes that are root causes of climate change. It has been clearly shown
that wolves, one of America’s prime predators, play a key role in allowing our
environmental landscape to heal from human onslaught and yet it has been the
public purse that has been repeatedly raided to ensure that America’s ranchers
(Australia’s farmers) can profit as wolves by their millions have been put to
the sword. Watch this four minute Youtube clip - "How wolves change rivers" - narrated by George Monbiot to learn about and understand the importance of wolves– Robert McLean).
