![]() ![]() While my bill won’t solve Colorado’s specific problem because of state laws, I am submitting comments for the U.S. I wasn’t having it, so I spoke up and blasted their plan to bring predators back to hunt in our communities. The agency were supposed to hear from concerned citizens but, instead, they tried to silence people. Fish and Wildlife Service’s so-called public comment session in Grand Junction. This gets the federal bureaucracy out of the way and restores some power to local communities.Īdditionally, I spoke out at the U.S. My bill follows the advice of experts who have found that the gray wolf is fully recovered. Recently, my bill to delist gray wolves from the Endangered Species List, the Trust the Science Act, received a subcommittee hearing. I’m sick of liberals in Washington, D.C., Boulder and Denver dictating how rural Colorado manages its wolves, so I am advocating for farmers and ranchers, and making sure their stories are heard. He then discovered three additional calves that were severely maimed.įor each of these stories, there are hundreds of other Coloradans who are too afraid to speak up. He discovered the attack by hearing one of his heifers moaning in pain. In November, a wolf pack attacked his calves. I testified about Johnny Schmidt’s wolf problems. The dog survived but, later, was put down since the injuries were too severe. Recently, two wolves killed her border collie “Cisco.” The next day, they injured her neighbor’s dog. With the protections liberals have enacted for wolves, she cannot defend her livestock and pets. In the past two years, he has lost two pet dogs to wolf attacks and has had a third dog severely injured. I told Carlos Atencio’s story, a rancher and lifelong Colorado native whose dogs have been hunted and stalked by a vicious wolf pack. I shared their stories that the left doesn’t want people to hear at a recent hearing before the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries. I am providing a voice for these ranchers. I have received letters from families, farmers and ranchers across Colorado who have nowhere else to go. However, the reality is that wolf attacks are gruesome. They only see images filtered through the media of cute wolf pups. People in the Denver suburbs do not understand wolf attacks. I’ve witnessed the devastation farmers and ranchers face due to wolf attacks. Congresswoman Boebert's op-ed was originally published in the Cortez Journal and the Durango Herald.
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