Montana: Wolf Hunts Are Banned in Area Bordering Yellowstone

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119. Actually it was the government

who promoted and killed them off to lure the ranching community to come here to a less than favorable for cattle environment. without the government programs to remove all the indigenous peoples and the predator populations... wolves, bears, lions and others... there would have been no ranching in the Rockies. Now that the ranching folks have been here for about a century they claim it's a tradition and that we, the taxpayers, should continue to pay millions/year for the Dept. of AG (APHIS:Wildlife Services) hit squads to come and kill all the animals the ranchers say cause them problems, including on our public lands that they pay squat to defile with their cattle... instead of taking proactive measures to protect those precious cows and sheep. A very few livestock producers actually do their jobs of protecting their livestock. And more livestock die from disease, weather conditions and insect bites than large carnivores.