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To promote the protection and enhancement of wildlife habitat, the quality of wildlife management programs and America's family heritage of hunting, fishing and trapping.

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March 5, 2010

Montana FWP "Legal Counsel" blames Wyoming Wolf Management Plan at state EQC meeting in Helena Montana.

... when FWP legal counsel Bob Lane pointed an accusing finger
at the Wyoming Game and Fish wolf management plan -
which still has not been approved by USFWS.

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A Good Explanation about the Echinococcus Granulosus

March 7, 2010

Environmental Quality Council
Re: Follow-up to March 5th testimony
From: Gary Marbut, President
Montana Shooting Sports Association

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Council:

There are issues about wolves that were not adequately addressed before the Council on Friday, primarily because of time constraints, and about which I'd like to follow up.

Wolf diseases and human health risks.

About Echinococcus Granulosus (EG for short), I felt that the council did not get a good synopsis of this disease. The Council was informed by FWP that 63% of Montana wolves carry this disease, which is transmissible to humans.

Because this disease has not been well studied, especially concerning the likelihood that this disease has been or will be transmitted to humans, FWP takes the position that it is no big deal. They equate their lack of information with absence of risk - what you don't know about can't hurt you, an attitude similar to the people of Haiti about earthquakes a year ago.

This is a mistake. Council members have been provided recent issues of The Outdoorsman which will generate a more informed view. Let me summarize.

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Will Graves Letter 03/03/2010

Will Graves
900 Hillen Drive
Millersville, MD 21108

3 March 2010

Environmental Quality Council
Helena, Montana, 59620

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Council;

This is for the record:

I worked for a short time (1950-1951) in Oaxaca, Mexico for the US Department of Agriculture. I was the Chief of an Inspecting, Vaccinating, Slaughtering Brigade in a horseback sector working to eradicate the Foot and Mouth Disease. In 1951 I volunteered for four year service in the US Air Force where I was taught Russian. In 1955 I started to work for the National Security Agency (NSA) and retired after 35 years service. In 1983 I was awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from NSA.

I have had an active interest in wolves since 1951 during which time I researched the characteristics, habits, and behavior of wolves in Czarist Russia and the former USSR. I recorded the results of my research in 2007 in a book titled, "Wolves in Russia: Anxiety Through the Ages." The much esteemed Dr. Valerius Geist was the Editor of my book.

From 1993-1995 I worked for the US State Department in the US Embassy in Moscow. While there I spent much of my free time traveling and collecting information about wolves in Russia. I still maintain email contact with some residents there. I have contacts with individuals who live in Yakutsk in the Yakutia Autonomous Republic. This area is well know as a reindeer breeding and herding area. One of my contacts is Yuri Sleptsov, whose wife Maria Rastorgueva works in the Yakutia Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Science. She knows Isakov Semen Innokentevich, Doctor of Veterinarian Science who also works at the Institute. I requested and they forwarded to me on the 26 of February "A Notice for the Public about Hydatid Diseases." A translation of that notice done by Mr Vladimir Deriaben and me, and edited by Dr. Geist is attached.

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WGFD - News Release - March 5, 2010

WYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT STATEMENT REGARDING SAGE GROUSE DECISION

Cheyenne - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today its decision to classify the greater sage-grouse as a candidate species under the Endangered Species Act.

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Jackson Woman writes to the Wyoming Game & Fish concerning her experience on the sleigh ride on the Elk Refuge.

Joanna Johnson

1050 So. Park Loop Road

Jackson, WY 83001

February 19, 2010

Steve Ferrell, Director

Wyoming Game & Fish Dept.

5400 Bishop Blvd.

Cheyenne, WY 82006

Last week I went on the Elk Refuge Sleigh Ride. Some of the information given to us by

the concession personnel is not true!

Examples: we were told the 24,000-acre Refuge cannot support more than 5,000

wintering elk. The truth is, approximately 12,000 elk have wintered here for many years.

We were told wolves only kill the sick and weak animals that will die anyway. The truth

is, the number of healthy calves killed by wolves every year is devastating the herds. To

date, Wyoming has no management control of wolves.

We were told Brucellosis causes cows to be sterile! Not true! The federal government management decisions are seriously damaging Wyoming's economy. The University of

Wyoming's economic evaluation of this state's natural resources values one elk at

$10,000. It's a shame that visitors to the largest elk refuge in the world are not told the

truth because of the federal government's agenda.

I believe the Wyoming Game & Fish shold seriously oppose U.S. Fish & Wildlife

decisions that are detrimental for our state.

Joanna Johnson

Cc: Clark Allen, Box 4068, Jackson, WY 83001

Aaron Clark, Box 249, Wheatland, WY 82201

Ronald Galles, 3332 Allendale Blvd, Casper, WY 82601

Michael Healy, 1205 N. Hillcrest Dr., Worland, WY 82401

Fred Lindzey, 17 Millbrook Road, Laramie, WY 82070

Clifford Kirk, 2591 Whitetale, Gillette, WY 82718

Ed Migniry, 181 miller Creek Road, Sundance, WY 82729

Gov. Dave Freudenthal, state Capitol, 200 W. 24^th St., Cheyenne, 82002-0010

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