Word: stockmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems certain, when it is released at year's end, to recommend the return of wolves, but political maneuvering has blocked the drafting of the necessary environmental-impact statement. The major national environmental groups support wolf reintroduction, and one, the Defenders of Wildlife, is raising $100,000 to reimburse stockmen in the northern Rockies for livestock the wolves might kill. Last month Defenders agreed to pay $1,700 to cattlemen for kills by a wolf pack that had migrated from Canada into Montana...
...eyes and long brown hair, and her manner is that of the pretty, courageous schoolmarm standing up for truth and decency in words the fearful townspeople would just as soon not hear. Yes, she says, wolves get their living by killing. No, they are not sweet and docile. Yes, stockmen are having a hard time economically. "But if we can't preserve wildness in Yellowstone, where can we preserve...
Hunting outfitters and stockmen scuff their cowboy boots in the dirt, unconvinced, as Askins talks. Some of them like to draw a line between Eastern ecobabblers, who puff wolves as gallant symbols of wildness, and true Westerners, who know them as cruel and cowardly and who can be relied on to "shoot, shovel and shut up," as the brag goes in the cowboy bars. But, Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries...
...great deal more dangerous than water pistols. They use a carbon-dioxide propellant cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot a steer on the flank with a Nel-Spot, and you color-coat him with a splotch of red or blue or yellow the size of a fried egg. easily recognizable at shipping time...