Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Why Not a Subsription Fund?

Ranchers really pull their hair out about environmentalists. The reintroduction of the Mexican Gray Wolf onto wild lands and ranching lands in western New Mexico/eastern Arizona has many ranchers upset.
The public must keep in mind that an entire rural county and several small towns depend on the dollars that ranchers pump into the local economy. They are now spending production time managing wolves. They are being forced out of business, while feeding an animal that has been shown historically to be a major depredator and a danger - an animal pushed into their midst by an agency that says the public is happy to have this occurring in its name.
Wolves eat ranch animals, inflicting direct losses on ranchers. Why not have an insurance fund, subscribed to by environmentalists and governments, that ranchers can get reimbursed from for their losses?

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