Not gone, just moved
This is in response to the two people who wrote about Cable One in the Sunday's Tribune (Dec. 14). It's not that they took those channels away; they just moved them to digital cable channels, in hopes to move more of the digital cable boxes.
Chandra Berg
Clarkston
Manage wolves?
Recently in Outdoor Life, I read a story about the wolves. Here is what the author had to say: "When they spot their prey, they give chase. It can be a very long pursuit, or a very short one, depending on the terrain, snow depth, six of the pack, ability of the prey to fight and other factors.
"The kill is not pretty. Wolf experts describe how typically one or more wolves will lunge at the flanks of the beleaguered animal with their powerful jaws, biting and slashing to shear away the hide and rip out the organs and cause severe blood loss. At the same time, another wolf will commonly jump up and latch onto the victim's nose with its teeth, especially when the pack is hunting a heavy animal, like a moose. With a 150-pound animal holding onto its nose and several others tearing its sides, the victim is history. The wolves continue to eviscerate the animal and gobble up the emerging entrails until it finally dies. This might take hours or even days -- but rarely minutes.
"So, knowing that this scenario occurs countless time every day in wolf country, how can we possible accept wolf reintroduction in the West?"
I, like many people in Idaho, did not want wolves to be reintroduced. Our elk herds were already down drastically compared to 15 or 20 years ago. If the wolves are removed from the endangered species list, it will probably be in December 2004. I think it should be removed immediately, but it will be up to Congress. Idaho opposed the reintroduction efforts. It took the intervention on the part of Congress to get the program started. Idaho refused to send any official representative. Instead it fell to members of the Nez Perce Tribe to represent Idaho wolves. But now that the wolves are here, is there any plan to manage them?
Ray E. Payton
Lewiston
No assignments?
Nobody in these parts wants to believe the news -- or more to the point, they don't want any of the rest of us to believe it.
It doesn't do [the Tribune's] credibility any good when we only see AP and Reuters bylines, which indicates you haven't assigned a report.
Gene Clasen
Clarkston