Jett
Ten Pointer
THANK YOU NC FARM BUREAU
Last spring I approached Larry Wooten, President of NC Farm Bureau about the USFWS's unwillingness and inability to operate their Red Wolf Program within the parameters they agreed to in 1995.
NC Farm Bureau actually negotiated the 1995 agreement on behalf of the private landowners of NC. Today I received the following letter from NC Farm Bureau to USFWS regarding the red wolf program in NC.
I want to personally thank and commend Mr. Wooten and NC Farm Bureau for standing up for the private property rights of so many North Carolinians against our continuously overreaching government. Eastern NC has a wonderful ally in Mr. Wooten and NC Farm Bureau. GREAT JOB!
Thank you,
Jett Ferebee
LETTER NC FARM BUREAU TO USFWS
June 11, 2014
Ms. Cynthia K. Dohner
Director, Southeast Region
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1875 Century Blvd.
Atlanta, GA 30345
Dear Ms. Dohner,
North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB), with a membership of over 500,000 families, represents farmers and other landowners across the state who are in constant interaction with wildlife of all types. NCFB has strong policy established by its members to not only protect members’ property and livestock from predators within the rules and regulations of the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, but also to uphold all state and federal wildlife protection rules. The recent ruling by federal district Judge Terrance Boyle in eastern North Carolina to temporarily prohibit coyote hunting removes an important tool for our members to protect themselves and their property from physical and economic harm. As you know, the ruling came as a result of several wildlife advocacy groups filing suit against the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and individual Commission members. Evidently, the Red Wolf Recovery Plan in that area has allowed red wolves and coyotes to interbreed, creating a hybrid animal that is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish its identity-- red wolf and coyote alike. This comes as no surprise to those of us who submitted comments in 1986, including NCFB and the American Farm Bureau Federation, who opposed the reintroduction of the red wolf into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, on the basis of farmer and other land owner’s rights to protect themselves, their families, and their property against wildlife threats. Adverse consequences we anticipated back then have come to pass.
We are asking USFWS to: 1) uphold the rules established by the Service in 1995, namely to manage the red wolf population on public land, and to remove any unwanted wolves on private property at the request of the landowner, 2) discontinue any efforts to sterilize coyotes and place them within presumed red wolf populations as this only introduces more known predators that are a threat to people and property, and 3) to seriously evaluate the effectiveness of the Red Wolf Recovery Plan in North Carolina, both in terms of success/failure of the intended goals to establish self-sustaining red wolf populations on PUBLIC LANDS, and the cost/benefit of the program to date.
The NCFB has always supported the work of our state and federal wildlife agencies to carry out the critically needed management of wildlife populations, and to protect private property rights of all NC citizens. We urge you to strongly consider the points we bring to your attention and await your response.
Sincerely,
Larry B. Wooten, President
North Carolina Farm Bureau
cc: Honorable Governor Pat McCrory
Honorable Senator Richard Burr
Honorable Senator Kay Hagan
Honorable Representative Walter Jones, Jr.
Honorable Representative G.K. Butterfield
Dan Ashe, Director, USFWS
Gordon Myers, Executive Director, NCWRC
Bob Stallman, President, AFBF
Last spring I approached Larry Wooten, President of NC Farm Bureau about the USFWS's unwillingness and inability to operate their Red Wolf Program within the parameters they agreed to in 1995.
NC Farm Bureau actually negotiated the 1995 agreement on behalf of the private landowners of NC. Today I received the following letter from NC Farm Bureau to USFWS regarding the red wolf program in NC.
I want to personally thank and commend Mr. Wooten and NC Farm Bureau for standing up for the private property rights of so many North Carolinians against our continuously overreaching government. Eastern NC has a wonderful ally in Mr. Wooten and NC Farm Bureau. GREAT JOB!
Thank you,
Jett Ferebee
LETTER NC FARM BUREAU TO USFWS
June 11, 2014
Ms. Cynthia K. Dohner
Director, Southeast Region
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1875 Century Blvd.
Atlanta, GA 30345
Dear Ms. Dohner,
North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB), with a membership of over 500,000 families, represents farmers and other landowners across the state who are in constant interaction with wildlife of all types. NCFB has strong policy established by its members to not only protect members’ property and livestock from predators within the rules and regulations of the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, but also to uphold all state and federal wildlife protection rules. The recent ruling by federal district Judge Terrance Boyle in eastern North Carolina to temporarily prohibit coyote hunting removes an important tool for our members to protect themselves and their property from physical and economic harm. As you know, the ruling came as a result of several wildlife advocacy groups filing suit against the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and individual Commission members. Evidently, the Red Wolf Recovery Plan in that area has allowed red wolves and coyotes to interbreed, creating a hybrid animal that is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish its identity-- red wolf and coyote alike. This comes as no surprise to those of us who submitted comments in 1986, including NCFB and the American Farm Bureau Federation, who opposed the reintroduction of the red wolf into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, on the basis of farmer and other land owner’s rights to protect themselves, their families, and their property against wildlife threats. Adverse consequences we anticipated back then have come to pass.
We are asking USFWS to: 1) uphold the rules established by the Service in 1995, namely to manage the red wolf population on public land, and to remove any unwanted wolves on private property at the request of the landowner, 2) discontinue any efforts to sterilize coyotes and place them within presumed red wolf populations as this only introduces more known predators that are a threat to people and property, and 3) to seriously evaluate the effectiveness of the Red Wolf Recovery Plan in North Carolina, both in terms of success/failure of the intended goals to establish self-sustaining red wolf populations on PUBLIC LANDS, and the cost/benefit of the program to date.
The NCFB has always supported the work of our state and federal wildlife agencies to carry out the critically needed management of wildlife populations, and to protect private property rights of all NC citizens. We urge you to strongly consider the points we bring to your attention and await your response.
Sincerely,
Larry B. Wooten, President
North Carolina Farm Bureau
cc: Honorable Governor Pat McCrory
Honorable Senator Richard Burr
Honorable Senator Kay Hagan
Honorable Representative Walter Jones, Jr.
Honorable Representative G.K. Butterfield
Dan Ashe, Director, USFWS
Gordon Myers, Executive Director, NCWRC
Bob Stallman, President, AFBF
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