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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWolf Slaughter Continues in the Rocky Mountains
http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/wolf-slaughter-continues-in-the-rocky-mountains-by-james-william-gibson-earth-island-journal/Wolf Slaughter Continues in the Rocky Mountains
by James William Gibson (Earth Island Journal)
Fantasies of killing become increasingly bizarre
Lynne Stone, longtime wolf advocate and executive director of Northern Idahos Boulder White Cloud Council in Ketchum, couldnt help but laugh. For the last two years she has routinely petitioned the Idaho Dept of Fish and Game for every single Big Game Mortality Report filed on wolves killed by hunters several hundred of them since the animals lost Endangered Species Act protect. Hunters and trappers are required to send in the report along with the skull and pelt for examination. In mid-January Stone ran across a November 2012 report that stated, DNA came back as a domestic dog, a light-skinned one.
Hunters operating just west of Yellowstone National Park killed seven radio-collared wolves from
October through December, including the famous, often photographed 832F, the majestic female
alpha of the Lamar Canyon pack.
Buy a wolf tag, shoot a dog, claim it was a wolf, get bragging rights and a dog-skin rug, she chuckled Life is wonderful in 3rd world Idaho. Is anyone missing a light-colored mutt? Maybe its time folks put orange vests and hats on their dogs.
Gallows humor is all wolf supporters have left. In February 2011, Congress removed gray wolves in the northern Rockies from protection by the Endangered Species Act, the first time a species has ever been delisted for political reasons. Before that, the US Fish and Wildlife Services reintroduction of wolves to the northern Rockies in the mid-1990s appeared to be one of the greatest conservation successes in decades. Wolves had been killed off in the West in the late nineteenth and early centuries. But while tourists from all over the country came to Yellowstone in hopes of seeing Cinderella or Limpy many of the wolves became named in the Rockies a reactionary political movement developed against the animals.
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Wolf Slaughter Continues in the Rocky Mountains (Original Post)
G_j
Jan 2013
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G_j
(40,366 posts)1. The lack of concern is duly noted
Not about sex or guns, or lip-syncing. Just
hundreds of wolves slaughtered. Carry on....
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. I'll kick...this sucks.
KNR