Anyone that wants to recreate in AZ should find this disturbing:
Here’s something from the Federal Register/Vol. 80, No. 11/Friday, January 16, 2015/Rules and Regulations that was passed out at the meeting. “Disturbance-causing land-use activity means any activity on Federal lands within a 1-mi radius around release pens when Mexican wolves are in them, around active dens between April 1 and July 31, and around active Mexican wolf rendezvous sites between June 1 and September 30, which the Service determines could adversely affect reproductive success, natural behavior or persistence of Mexican wolves. Such activities may include, but are not limited to, timber or wood harvesting, prescribed fire, mining or mine development, camping outside designated campgrounds, livestock husbandry activities (e.g., livestock drives, roundups, branding, vaccinating, etc.), off-road vehicle use, hunting and any other use or activity with the potential to disturb wolves…I wrote that so the reader understands there will be forest closures involved as well.
That means no early elk hunts in 4A, 4B, 3A/C and when they do the next batch of releases below the rim, in 22 and 23. If the wolves move west, you can add 5A, 5B and 6A to that as well. It also means no OTC archery deer hunting and no family camping in the cool pines for Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. Family camping in 3A/C is a huge activity with people coming from the valley to escape the heat. What about the impact to those businesses?
When this whole process was started, the USFWS refused to accept the input from AZGFD as part of the initial proposal. And people wonder why there is such disdain for the the federal government in AZ.
Dang typo's.
