Write 5 arguments for and  5 arguments against wolves should be protected in north america?
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Wolves should be protected casue they keep the ecosystem in balance, like what happened in yellow stone when they  took out the wolves. The coyote took over and the deer population skyrocketed. So, basically everything will fall apart if you take wolves out.
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Just the Facts \n\nAverage length \nfemales: 4.5 to 6 feet (tip of nose to tip of tail) \nmales: 5 to 6.5 feet \n\nAverage height\n26 to 32 inches (at the shoulder) \n\nAverage weight \nfemales: 60 to 80 pounds \nmales: 70 to 110 pounds \n\nAverage foot size\n4 inches wide by 5 inches long \n\nLength of Life\nup to 13 years in wild (usually 6 to 8 years) \nup to 16 years in captivity \n\nFur color\ngray, but can also be black or white \n\nNumber of teeth\n42 teeth \n\nBreeding season\nFebruary to March \n\nGestation period\n63 days \n\nWeight at birth\n1 pound \n\nLitter size\n4 to 6 pups \n\nPack size \n2 to 30 or more \n\nAverage pack size \n6 to 8\n\nPack territory size \n25 to 150 square miles in Minnesota \n300 to 1,000 in Alaska and Canada \n\nAverage travel speed \n5 miles per hour \n\nSprinting speed \n25 to 35 miles per hour for short distances \n\nCommon food \ndeer, moose, caribou, elk, bison, musk-oxen and beaver. \n\nMain threats to survival\nloss of habitat due to destruction, development and encroachment by humans; persecution by humans
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1) Ensure that we have enough resources to prevent another natural disaster from impacting us so severely.\n\n2) Bring our troops home from Iraq (not immediately, but within 2 year timetable seems reasonable)\n\n3) Appoint justices/judges from all areas of the political spectrum, but only qualified ones\n\n4) Veto any bill that curtails the freedoms of Americans.\n\n5) Strengthen the border patrol, esp. around Mexico. Enforce tougher penalties for illegals.\n\n6) Push for public acceptance of often-persecuted minorities (gays, fat people, homeless, atheists, etc)\n\n7) Attempt to legalize file-sharing\n\n8) Marry someone.\n\n9) Punish my little brother for all the evil stuff he's ever done.\n\n10) Push for higher punishments for discrimination, be it from the minority or majority.\n\nAnd finally, try to be as bi-partisan and open-minded as possible, without sacrificing my own views for politics.
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Try joining PETA.com.  That's a good place to start.
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Preamble:  "Provide for the common defense"
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They should allow local landowners whose crops or natural forage for their own domestic animals that are being destroyed to take the elk. they should also issue more licenses or allow locals to take more than one animal for the season. charge less for out of state hunters, and let local gun clubs that are teaching young hunters a special weekend to hunt and then donate their \nkills to the food banks and shelters for the homeless. Everybody wins.
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Yes, humans do a lot more harm than wolves do.  Also, in many areas of the country, species that wolves used to keep in check are becoming severely overpopulated.  White-tailed deer in particular (also known as rats with hooves), but also wapiti (aka elk) in some regions have created major changes in local ecosystems.\n\nRe-introducing predators can help to manage these populations, in addition to helping to maintain the health of the wolf populations which are losing territory all over the world.
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I agree with your feelings about wolves but don't forget all the other animals out there!  I hate any harm done to all animals!  I just don't want to see or hear about hurting animals & I'll protect them if I can without a second thought.  I understand them & they sometimes even understand me, I think.  But I'm definitely human, I should be, & so should you.\n\nBe content with being human & use what you know to help wolves & other animals.  I think it's an admirable career choice.
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*Wincing a bit at this and shaking my shaggy skull* KK Let's start with they are two seperate species all together...\nThe canid family consists of thirty-five living species. Eight of these species inhabit North America. These North American species include gray wolves, red wolves, coyotes, red foxes, gray foxes, kit foxes, swift foxes and arctic foxes. The eight species may be organized in three general categories: wolves, coyotes and foxes.\nWolves are the largest members of the canid family. This is the species from which our pet dogs were domesticated. Wolves were once the most widely distributed wild mammals. They inhabited most of the available land in the northern hemisphere. Due to the destruction of their habitat and persecution by humans, they now occupy only about two-thirds of their former range worldwide, and only about 3 percent of the continental 48 United States. Many people have used the terms "brush wolves" or "prairie wolves" when referring to coyotes. Coyotes, however, are not wolves. Coyotes and wolves are in the same family (Canidae) and genus (Canis), but are separate species, just as foxes and wolves are separate species.\nCoyotes are smaller than most mature wolves. Resilient animals, they have higher population numbers and inhabit a much larger range than do wolves. Coyotes are able to adapt to change and have a strong tolerance for human encroachment. Like wolves, coyotes have been persecuted because of their predatory nature. They are still trapped and killed in predator control programs throughout North America.\nhttp://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_sci/canid_na.asp
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Wolves were virtually eliminated as pests throughout much of the lower 48 States, and is listed as a threatened species on the U.S. Endangered Species List (although the species is not listed on the International Endangered Species List due to healthy populations remaining in Canada, Scandanavia and Russia).\n\nOnly Minnesota had a healthy population of gray wolves (Canis lupus) until re-introduction programs began a few years ago to bring wolves back into areas that they were once abundant in.\n\nToday, gray wolves can be found in Minnesota (2,500+), Michigan (321), Wisconsin (335), Montana (81), Idaho (285) and Yellowstone Park in Wyoming (271).  This is in addition to the 7,500 to 10,000 wolves living in Alaska and the estimated 57,000 that live in Canada.\n\nThe red wolf (Canis rufus) was extinct in the wild until a captive breeding program and conservation initiative re-introduced a handful to North and South Carolina.\n\nA similar captive breeding program and release initiative has also been used to try and return the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) to the wild.  Today there are about 55 Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.  The U.S. Endangered Species List lists them as endangered, but also lists them as 'nonessential', mostly due to pressure from ranchers.\n\nSo yes, there are wolves in New Mexico, but not very many, and they are the exceedingly rare subspecies of wolf, the Mexican wolf.
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1--Enforce the border, even if it means with troops.  This is an invasion.\n\n2--Sanction those who hire them.  I mean jail.  Even for little old ladies who hire them to mow the lawn.  If there is no work, they will not come.\n\n3--End birthright citizenship.  These women who come over to shell out a kid so it will be a US citizen are a problem.\n\n4--NO government benefits for illegals.  I mean no school, no health care no food stamps, no nothing.  That will also slow it down.  \n\n5--National Identity card for all, with biometrics.  I used to be against this, but desperate times call for desperate measures.\n\n6--Major jail time for the coyotes.  That is if we don't shoot them as invaders and leave their bones to bleach.
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Depending on the country but in the U.S. it is the mountain lion and wolf. In areas humans have destroyed these animals natural habitat, there are none except horrible people who mistreat animals. \n\nI love all creatures big and small and don't think it is right the U.S. actually has three plants that process horse meat for other country's consumption.
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Wolves are about the same size as large dogs.  A five inch canine would be hard for a canine this size to conceal in his mouth.  \n\nFrom what I've seen on mounted specimens:  less than 2 inches.
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I don't know. I like to consider myself culturally sensitive but when the safety and well being of innocent animals is at stake I will always advocate for the animals. A local news report on the conditions would probably do wonders for rectifying the problem.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights\n\nhttp://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?splash&oid=3
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the same answer of wolf I recommend his to take the ten points
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i don't think there is anything wrong with wearing fur, but i would like people to hunt the animals them self's and use the entire thing.  Or at least do the research and find out if the place the fur came raised the animals humanely and they did something with the rest like made it into dog or cat food or something like that