Wonder how far they'll take this.....

[BRULEDRIFTER]

Wolf supporters show how to disrupt hunts, sabotage traps

The 12-page manual published online Monday by Earth First! tells would-be saboteurs that Internet activism alone can leave activists with an empty feeling, so “why not try direct action?”

By: Associated Press report, Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. — Environmentalists upset with a federal government proposal to remove protections for wolves across most of the U.S. have posted a manual on how to disrupt wolf hunts and sabotage traps.

The 12-page manual published online Monday by Earth First! tells would-be saboteurs that Internet activism alone can leave activists with an empty feeling, so “why not try direct action?”

The manual instructs how to find traps and take them out by destroying or hiding them. It also instructs how to release a trapped wolf, noting that doing so is very dangerous, and suggests forming blockades where wolf permits are sold and walking ahead of hunters with air horns.

Earth First! Media spokesman Grayson Flory said his organization published the manual written by a group calling themselves the “Redneck Wolf Lovin’ Brigade.” The impetus was the Obama administration's announcement in June that it plans to end Endangered Species Act protections for almost all wolves in the United States, he said.

“We don't believe something being illegal automatically makes it right or wrong,” Flory said. “The wolf hunt manual that we're redistributing is only about protecting life, not killing it. We're completely against the harming of living things.”

Wolf hunts are allowed in Minnesota, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. A hunt is scheduled for this fall in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said the state's wolf hunting policy was a public process that deserved respect.

“This shows you the extremes people are willing to go to in making their points and affecting public policy,” Aasheim said. “But if something comes to pass and people do break the law, they will be prosecuted.”

Montana Trappers Association president Tom Barnes said hunters and trappers help manage the wolf population.

“All we ask is that we can manage these wolves,” Barnes said. “Hunting is a tool to do that, just like trapping, for any other animal species.”

A draft of the U.S. Department of Interior proposed rule to lift wolf protections said the roughly 6,000 wolves now living in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes are enough to prevent the species’ extinction.

The agency says having gray wolves elsewhere — such as the West Coast, parts of New England and elsewhere in the Rockies — is unnecessary for their long-term survival.

A small population of Mexican wolves in the Southwest would continue to receive federal protections, as a distinct subspecies of the gray wolf.

[Wanderer]

Brule,

Below is a piece I copied off their HSOforum by their login/registration info.

WARNING! Anyone who takes this HSOforum seriously will be shot. Anyone who does not take it seriously will be buried alive by a Mitsubishi bulldozer.

Maybe they're just the Onion of the tree huggers. I didn't really read much further.

[PurpleFloyd]

There was an Earth First chapter at Northland college when I went there at the end of the 80's. They tend to be pretty scatterfocused and the best way to counter them is to throw a shiny new cause their way.

One particular member I knew was on the whole fast food styrofoam kick and used to make a point of going to the local fast food restaurant and ordering his food to be wrapped in the standard paper wrap instead of the foam box. Then interestingly once the gulf war started and he jumped on the whole "No blood for oil" kick he would stop to eat at the restaurant and suddenly he was OK with the styrofoam box. Back at the dorms we had a pretty good chuckle about that.

[lungdeflator]

These are the same liberals that are all for abortion.

"We don't want to harm any living thing"

Try to sabatoge my trap, just watch out for the two other traps I have set right behind that one that are just big enough for a human foot....

[pikerliker]

There are laws on the books for this exact thing. They cannot legally do things like walk ahead of you in the woods blaring air horns, damage traps, stands, etc. If it happening to you call a CO or the Sherriff. Use camera's in srategic locations if you have traps out to get nice smiling pics of them and turn them in. They arent' the only ones who can "take action".