And since we're discussing eco-freaks and their stupidity running rampant

Introducing an apex predator is never a good idea.

DENVER–The Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund submitted 211,093 petition signatures December 10 for a ballot measure mandating reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado. Signature verification is ongoing by the Secretary of State’s office with 124,632 valid signatures required to put the initiative on the 2020 ballot. 

The prospect of wolves returning to Colorado alarms rural residents because of the certainty of wolf predation on livestock, big game and even pets. 

Wolf predation is a big problem in other states like Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington, California and Minnesota, home to more than 2,400 wolves, the largest population of wolves in the lower 48 states.

Idaho has had to issue hunting tags for wolves because the deer and elk populations are getting wiped out.  And that doesn't take into consideration the damage done to domestic animals.  There's a reason people hunted wolves to extinction, people.  Wolves are killing machines.  They'll kill anything they want to kill, because that's what they do.  Bring them back, and they'll just do what they do all over again.

Rick Enstrom, former Colorado State Wildlife Commissioner from 2000 to 2008 and Chairman for three years is an expert on wolves in Colorado. Enstrom also served on the first wolf working group that developed the wolf plan for Colorado in 2004.  He warned against the reintroduction measure in an interview with Complete Colorado on Thursday. 

“You only have to look at what happened to the Wyoming elk population,” Enstrom said. “Their herds have been knocked back to 10 percent of what it was.”

A big chunk of money that the states use for wildlife management comes from hunting licenses and the various fees associated with getting a tag for whatever animal you're hunting.  Take away the animals (by reintroducing wolves and letting them go to town on the herds) and you won't have people buying tags, because there will be nothing to hunt.  So bye-bye wildlife management funding.  And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems that the wolves will bring.

Naturally, the usual suspects (that would be the eco-freaks living in cities who never have to deal with the consequences of their actions) are up in arms and shrieking like the hysterical bullshit artists they are.

Savor the irony of the Sierra Club’s website boasting, “For the first time, Coloradans – not politicians, not bureaucrats – We, The People, may decide whether to reintroduce gray wolves to Colorado.” 

In other words, one of the harshest groups that insists politics has no place in wildlife management, now dismisses wildlife professionals as nothing more than “bureaucrats,” whose flawed judgment must be overruled by the political process. Now, who is declaring war on scientists? 

Apparently to these activists, scientists are only useful if they adhere to the “correct” political view, but can easily be discarded if they deviate.

Same as it ever was, and since Colorado has been completely Kalifornicated, I expect to see whatever ballot measure pass.  And as usual, the rural folks will take the brunt of the damage while the smug, elitist shitbags living in the urban areas who voted for this crap get to rest on their smug sense of moral superiority which they have completely failed to actually earn.