Preservation of America's Wildlife

Tag: wildlife

  • Reality vs. Tradition/Heritage

    Written by
    John Cox, M.A. C/M

    “Frankly, when I started to Ride Horses, and establish a reliance with them, the connection between them and I, to be comfortable for them, as well as myself, I found many traditional and heritage driven situations to be absurd. As a matter of fact, many were abusive, and these fear driven traditions, certainly inconsistent with my Horse’s reactions while in remote areas on the trail.” — John Cox, M.A. C/M Horseman

    “We are in a fight over “Ignorant Mind-Sets”, make no doubt, and “False-Narratives” brought about by heavily funded non-profits, special interest groups, and what we accepted as Tradition or Heritage.

    Yet, we “Block-Out” the Traditions of Nature, the Wolves and the Wild Horses for example, that have been around centuries before the “Human Invasion”! Upon which, “Humans” assimilated their beliefs into what is termed “Tradition or Heritage” today, while hypocritically overlooking the “True-Heritage, and how the planet was healthy enough to get us here, today, by Nature, not humans, and, not the human mind set at all. Which is truly destructive on this planet.

    Public debates over Gray Wolves and Wild Horses in North America often pit modern ecological science against deep-seated agrarian traditions and sensationalized media. Yes, tradition based upon “Myth” in the media. Drama and story-telling, not science nor facts, but enhancements to the story-telling, which become, over time, reality — or more dangerous to us all, an ironic “truth”. We now see the destruction when we attempt to assimilate these story-telling dramatic episodes within Nature versus Human, and attempts to manage our Lands and Wildlife within that perspective.

    Traditional viewpoints frequently cast both species as destructive threats to rural livelihoods; whereas, prevailing narratives sometimes romanticize them or misrepresent their direct ecological roles.

    The Conflict Over Wolves traditionally-accepted perspectives are Rooted in folklore and historical livestock protection, fantasies about being endangered by them and dramatized via story-telling, and raising the dramatic structure of the stories to extreme excitement.

    No doubt, this perspective frames wolves as relentless, bloodthirsty predators that decimate big game and domestic cattle (i.e. which are non-indigenous by the way, and should not be roaming our countryside).

    Science, i.e. credible science or “non-dramatic science”, shows Gray Wolves act as Apex regulators that help maintain healthy ecosystems. Depictions of random mass killings, of livestock, et al. (again non-indigenous domestic animals, cattle, should not be roaming our countryside), or imminent danger to humans, are largely exaggerated; although, localized livestock interactions, exaggerated to the extreme. The Wild Horses, and those same people that exaggerate the Wolves aggressiveness, establish drama through fiction, or, exaggerated lies, about the Wild Horses, as well.

    These false-narratives I discuss here, need to end, before we can actually attempt to resolve the issues we face today, within the destruction of our Natural Ecology and overall Environmental Complex.

    Conservation, for example, precisely means to approach Nature as a priority, and not a wreckless, ill-defined term that means making up lies about designated Wildlife, such as Over-Population lies, in order to enhance Trophy or Sport Hunts.

    Nothing wrong with being truthful. Before Humans invaded the planet, the Wildlife, in their version of our Planet, enhanced this Environment over millions of years. Humans here for a mere few thousand years, and we are destroying millions of years of Evolution — as many lie to themselves daily now. As if to say to themselves, their version of history is Tradition, and Heritage, as long as they do not look behind the Curtain of Reality — and the very observable destruction of our Natural Environment. . .” — John Cox, M.A. C/M

  • Conflicts with the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

    John Cox – M.A. C/M

    North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, when studies, and references perused and checked, has no science nor statistics based within any reality complex in our Wilderness and Forests — a very shallow document, commercialized rather than reality management = more Advertising types of Propaganda.

    Certainly, more of a pretend piece of rhetoric, that conflicts with common humane ethics, as well as responsible conduct, which neglects, abusively in many instances, Wildlife and Lands Management to be accomplished within a positive process.

    The model over-emphasizes game species and fails to adequately address non-game species conservation, though it technically covers them, falsely, as their science does not, nor ever has backed the conclusions of the model.

    They like to say a decline in the number of hunters threatens the primary funding mechanism, but we can find no evidence of such — and the rhetoric about Hunter / Trapper situations funding, in totality, simply a lie. We find through perusing Fish and Wildlife State Budgets, and the Federal Budgets, and the government Lands and Wild Agencies Budget, to have little to no funding from Hunters / Trappers, et al. directly.

    While wildlife is held in trust, the public has limited input compared to special interest groups (e.g., hunting lobbies, ranching lobbies, fishing lobbies, trapper lobbies). Here, we see the inequity of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation model itself, generally protects the very-people that it was designed to protect Wildlife and Lands Management from. Lobby interests do not serve America, nor the general population of Taxpayers — but rather, a select few situations of Profit-Based lobby efforts, that conflicts with the majority of American Rights.

    The seven pillars (sometimes called “seven sisters”) are not as deeply rooted in history as proponents claim, and the model is actually more of a 20th-century creation — That myth and heritage is nothing more than rhetoric, to excuse those who commit atrocities upon our Public Lands, and forced upon Wildlife, as well. It is where Heritage and myth, conclusively combine into a conflicting tale of lies, innuendo, and abusive actions toward Wildlife, in reality, nothing more than mental-dysfunction, or Psychotic Behaviors unacceptable within a Humane Society.


    Privileging Game Hunting: The model serves to justify hunting, with management agencies prioritizing game animals (deer, elk) and predator control to enhance hunting opportunities, rather than, ecosystem health.

    Marginalizing Non-Hunters: It fails to include non-hunting conservationists, indigenous groups, and minority voices, focusing largely on the history of sportsman-led conservation (this type of conservation questionable, at best).

    Inadequate Predator Management: It supports the elimination of predators to increase game populations. This is in direct conflict with credible science, and Predators being a significant part of Ecological Habitat Health and Sustainability.

    Neglecting Non-Game Species: Agencies often focus disproportionately on taxa valued by hunters and pay less attention to threatened, endangered, or non-game wildlife.

    Questionable “Legitimate” Killing: The tenet “wildlife can only be killed for legitimate purposes” is contentious, with critics saying it allows for trophy hunting and the killing of predators as “vermin”.

    Limited Scientific Scope: Awkwardly, science is not always the primary driver in setting policies, which can be heavily influenced by political agendas or hunting lobbies.

    Neglect of Modern Biodiversity Issues: One direct circumstance, very negative to both Wildlife and Lands Management, is the fact it does not adapt to 21st-century issues like climate change, biodiversity loss, and invasive species, focusing instead on traditional game management . . . Avoidance of these issues, ignorance, bigotry, and hate, combined with psychotic behaviors, are not tools for science, but rather, to be avoided.

    We find the Paradigm of The American Model of Wildlife Conservation to be flawed, and nothing more than common rhetoric. Fortunately, Conservation is much more than this model can provide, in truth. We find the Desertification of Lands toward positive growth, as well as much of our Nations Wildlife that is sacrificed, all the while promoting this dysfunctional model of Conservation, to be distasteful, and simply common and shallow words. . .

    (Filed 3-27-2026)