Science Doesn’t Lie, but “Scientists” Publish *
*A shameless modification of something my grandmother once told me that, “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure!”
Below my 30 November email to select colleagues, there is a List of historical wolf attacks almost entirely from Europe and Asia. My comments and the List will, hopefully, prove of interest and value to you that read them.
Jim Beers
30 November 2018
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Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.
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Guys,
What a wonderful place Christopher Columbus found! Who knew? I feel like bursting forth in stanzas of “My Country Tis of Thee”! Now I really know why all our forbearers left “the Old Country”.
There has (according to this List) only been but ONE wolf attack and death in North America for that matter in recorded history. It was in 1989 in Forest lake, Minnesota (“where all the children are above average” per Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion and for other unmentioned incidents’ fame) about 20 miles from where I am sitting at the moment AND that was from a CAPTIVE WOLF! It must have been imported from those other countries far away and it only goes to prove that only North American wolves, unsullied by those dastardly Euro-Asian oppressors, are “natural” and “beneficial”. Obviously, our wolves are like angels placed here for the virgin forests and wild grazing animals to live in loving harmony with “native” people and this List proves it. Once invaded (there was no wall) by these European immigrants “seeking asylum” sure enough they brought in this “captive wolf” that couldn’t help killing his “caretaker”.
My point here is to take this list for what it is. It is a PARTIAL European/civilized Asian List (i.e. where they kept records that endured and where such things were noted, much less recorded). There were lots more and the historic references back to the Ancient Greeks are chilling to say the least.
Enter North America. Consider that Norwegian Canadian trapper the other day that killed a grizz a hundred yards from his cabin only to find his “partner” and their 10-month old baby dead and “mauled” (i.e. ripped apart) where they had tried to get back to the cabin by “apparently the same bear”. How often did frontier families and settlers experience the same horrific deaths from wolves and bears and mountain lions? Who “Knew”? Who “Investigated”? Who “Reported”? Who Publicized”? Who “Recorded”? Who “Kept Records”?
Despite all that, Stanley Young in Wolves of North America mentions a lot of word-of-mouth incidents passed down and still mentioned when he was “controlling” (only they didn’t have qualms then and spoke in real words like “killing”) predators. Today the same necessary activity (predator control) is verboten to even (like Oscar Wilde’s “love” that “you dared not speak its name” and got him imprisoned and ruined his life) speak its name or necessity.
This very valuable List is but the tip of an historical iceberg. There were undoubtedly many more deaths and survival-with-injuries in Europe and Asia in these years and a similar ratio of wolf attacks and wolf-caused deaths based on rural expanses and wolf-to-human ratios undoubtedly occurred under “Native” occupation and European occupancy in North America.
The real horror and scandal is the government functionaries, quack “perfessors”, teachers, over-educated influential elites, immoral NGO’s and many others with all manner of anti-rural hidden agendas that have not only sold the re-imposition of deadly predators by government force and finance but also buried this history (like Holocaust-Deniers) and created Socialist automatons that will not only deny but actively suppress these horrific facts and put them on the “Mention at Your Own Peril” List.
A Grant to some fearless person who is neither afraid of the truth nor squeamish about what must be done (“Yo Demosthenes, are you out there? We need you.”) should set about recording what took place in North America as best we can reconstruct it and then attempt an ordered and supportable synthesis (like the incomplete Euro/Asian records) to extrapolate what most likely took place. Should I go to the University of Minnesota or the University of California or where? Decisions, Decisions.
Should I look for funding at the Animal Rights NGO’s or the federal bureaucracies or the spineless hunting NGO’s or the “hiding-under-their-desks” State agencies?
I leave all that to you dear reader.
Jim Beers
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On Nov 29, 2018, at 5:08 PM, XXXXX wrote:
YYYY and I were talking today about recent wolf attacks on Humans. I started to search in the internet and found this. Wow. There are many more attacks than I had known about!
