Kill off apex predators like cougars, spray atrazine, neonicotinoids and glyphosate on everything then wonder why cervids like deer and wapiti contract a prion contagion like chronic wasting disease?
Now, the Bearlodge Ranger District of the Black Hills National Forest in northeastern Wyoming is shopping for Earth haters who want to be outfitters and guides for hunting deer, wapiti, cougars, and wild turkeys. Each ranger district has this option but it tends to happen most often where congressional delegations are Republicans and Crook County is a colony of whiny anti-government welfare ranchers.
420 permits are issued for over 24,000 head of cattle to graze the BHNF for pennies a month in June through October and according to some alarmists wapiti can spread brucellosis and wild turkeys can transmit avian flu to fragile livestock.
Meanwhile, research scientists are sounding the alarm for bats after white nose syndrome was discovered in two species at Devils Tower National Monument in 2021. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) is the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome and in part because of WNS the US Fish and Wildlife Service extended Endangered Species Act protection for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) despite protestations from Republicans. Insects coated with industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals in water supplies are weakening immune systems spreading WNS to bats as part of Earth's anthropogenic-driven sixth mass extinction.
Cattle oilers laced with insecticides are placed near water supplies on public lands where livestock graze contributing to the deaths of susceptible bats.
The northern long-eared, little brown, and tri-colored bat are three of the species Northern Hills Ranger District Wildlife Biologist Amy Hammesfahr describes, when she says bats are hanging by a loose thread. [Black Hills Pioneer]
During one season in the Black Hills a white trophy hunter illegally slew a three-month old, fourteen pound cougar kitten. The idiot was cited for a class one misdemeanor improper tagging, which carries a penalty of fines to $1,000, one year in jail and loss of hunting privileges for a year. That particular incident is par for the course in Lawrence and Crook Counties where firearms and alcohol mixed with meth chasers are as common as sibling marriages.
ip image: cattle shitting in a sensitive public watershed in the Northern Black Hills.
The Bearlodge RD is soliciting interest from businesses & individuals wishing to offer new outfitting & guiding services for hunting big game (deer & elk), hunting mountain lions, & hunting spring turkeys on NFS lands. https://t.co/04mKBnvLyT pic.twitter.com/NlV76MBYST
— Black Hills NF (@BlackHillsNF) June 18, 2024
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