Help Stop the Bush Administration’s Latest Debacle: Aerial Gunning of Greater Yellowstone Wolves
In 1995, Canada sent 35 gray wolves to the state of Idaho, to help reintroduce wolves to the Yellowstone region of the Norwest United States. Protected under the Endangered Species Act, free-living wolves flourished in the Yellowstone area of the Northern Rockies in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Gray wolves play a beneficial role in the ecosystem, and they also help to maintain healthy populations of raptors, rodents, and coyotes and other animals.
Now the Bush administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has cleared the way for states to begin aerial gunning these reintroduced wolf families as early as this fall. This disgraceful scheme, supported by a coalition of hunters and ranchers, aims to kill up to 700 wolves, which will decimate the current population of approximately 1,200. Wolves would be removed from the list of federally protected, threatened and endangered species, but the aircraft-assisted killing would begin while they are still on the list. Wolves could be shot on sight in most parts of the states, if they travel outside the safety of Yellowstone or Grand Tetons National Park.
Hasn’t Bush or the officials in these three states learned anything from shameful wolf control programs in Alaska? When the Alaska Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game moved to deploy, as The New York Times editorialized on March 14, 2004, “an air force to hunt animals” as a method of suppressing wolf populations to make moose hunting more convenient, there were audible protests around the world, and a successful travel boycott of Alaska, launched by Friends of Animals. Why do Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana officials want to step into the same firestorm of criticism by signifying their return to wrongheaded wolf persecution routines?
Following Alaska down the slippery slope of a primitive, violent, wolf slaughter scheme, federal and state officials also failed to justify their machinations with good science. The purported goal is to protect elk populations, yet there is no clear evidence of any decline in elk. Moreover, elk are coveted by hunters.
For example, in Idaho, elk populations are 20 percent above so-called management objectives, according to Idaho Fish and Game’s 2006 progress report, which stated, “Overall elk populations statewide are near all time highs.” Yet this same agency based the plan for the aerial gunning of wolves on a “trend count” in the Clearwater region, relying on astonishingly unscientific data in which eight cows were reportedly killed by wolves in the area.
This example of politics trumping science is also based on the faulty reasoning that wolves can be killed in large numbers with no biological problem, simply because their high reproductive rates and dispersal capabilities enable them to restore their populations quickly. These views are without sensitivity to shattering the lives of individual animals, or the damage it does to destroy members of a socially cohesive group.
Ranchers and hunters have spearheaded the campaign for this wolf-killing scheme, led by Idaho’s Ron Gillett, of the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition. Using a dead wolf as their mascot, Gillett’s group distributes “Kill a Wolf” bumper stickers and describes the animals as “land piranhas.” At one of their rallies earlier this year at the Idaho Capitol, Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter endorsed their efforts, promising that the state would kill more than 500 wolves after delisting. Added Otter, “I’m going to bid for the first ticket to shoot a wolf.” The Idaho legislature then voted to allow permits to kill wolves for only $9.75.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting public comments on their “wolf control” scheme plan until Monday, August 6, 2007. Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals advises, “The Draconian wolf-control measures these states are proposing are best left for snow removal.”
Please write to oppose the wolf control schemes. Ask the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to prevent states from initiating aerial shooting schemes — out of respect for the inherent value of the wolves, and in the interest of a thriving biocommunity in which theenvironment is protected and wolves remain free.
Ed Bangs, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator
Email: Wolf RuleChange@fws.gov — include “Wolf PDM Plan Comments” in the subject line.
Phone: 406-449-5225, ext. 204
Email: nrmgraywolf@fws.gov (additional email) — include “Wolf PDM Plan Comments” in the subject line.
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On July 25, 2007, Raccoon wrote:
Yet another diabolical plan from this administration to do everything in its power to destroy our planet and everything in it. Thank you for writing this article to try to bring some awareness to save the wolf, a beautiful and sacred animal.
Rax
On July 26, 2007, Shirley wrote:
GOD HELP US, MOSTLY THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE A HEART AND THOSE WHO LIVE ONLY BY THE ALL MIGHTY DOLLAR ONE DAY WE WILL BE ASKING WHERE DID ALL THE ANIMALS GO!!
God, made it so each animal and person have a purpose in this World. We took over their land, their home not the other way around.
On July 26, 2007, encarpenter wrote:
What has happened to this administration. This is maddness to kill and shoot these wonderful creatures. I am so distressed about the decisions being made.
On July 26, 2007, Shirley wrote:
God, made it so each animal and person have a purpose in this World.
We took over their land, their home not the other way around.
GOD HELP US, MOSTLY THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE A HEART AND THOSE WHO LIVE ONLY BY THE ALL MIGHTY DOLLAR ONE DAY WE WILL BE ASKING WHERE DID ALL THE ANIMALS GO!
Shirley
On July 26, 2007, Jennifer Torrence wrote:
It seems to me that these amazing animals where reintroduced to the Yellowstone region for a purpose. Like, they were endangered. So, why are you tring to take steps backwards in this process. When the original plan is to let these animals grow in numbers. NOT to knock them down when they got to a certain point! The Idaho ledislature then voted to allow permits to kill wolves for only $9.75. Bush Administration’s U.S Fish and Wildlife Service has cleared the way for states to begin aerial gunning! Thats not all. A coalition of hunters and ranchers, aims to kill up to 700 wolves, which will decimate the current population of 1,200. On astonishingly unscientific data in which eight cows were reported killed by wolves. The aerial gunning is all because they want to protect elk populations, yet there is no clear evidence of any decline in elk! Hunters and ranchers just want the convenience of no competition. Which I thought was part of the point of hunting and ranching. Yellowstone covers about 2.2 million acres of land and has an average elevation 7,300 feet(2300m). I found only 9 pack of wolves found in Yellowstone and Im sure there are more, but doesn’t that sound pretty fair so far? A typical wolk pack is highly structured, highly social group. The average pack in the wild consists of six-eight members. When a member of the pack or alpha member dies. Leads to a great deal of stress on the pack. The survivor’s will general disperse. Some as loners, some travel together in sibling pairs. Which survival becomes that much harder. So, if this aerial gunning takes out one-two members a pack. There wont be many left at all in six months time. Please stop this barbarian aerial gun slaughter!
On July 27, 2007, Janet Bollero wrote:
Once again, ignorance typical of this pitiful administration… what more can they do wrong? It’s disgaceful.
On July 29, 2007, chris f. wrote:
here’s a thought, turn bush loose alone in yellowstone and………
On July 29, 2007, dave wrote:
here we go again, didn’t anyone learn anything from alaska. kill all the wolf to save all the elk, then kill all the elk.and create an airforce to do it. doesnt anyone screen these people before giving them a job. if you have a brain dead idea, please keep it to yourself.these people are elected to improve things, unnecessay slaghter of a wolf was not part of it. to the fed. fish and wildlife, gov. butcher otter and the 2 other states that came up with stupid idea,THANK YOU FOR BLOWING MY HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS TO SATISFY A FEW ANIMAL ABUSERS THAT ARE NOT JUST SATISFIED KILLING ELK. pitty they cant just issue permits so they can shoot each other, then we wouldnt even have to deal with this issue.
On July 30, 2007, JULIA D COOPER wrote:
Bush has shown no respect for his parents by letting others kill each other and killing animals, no clean air, killing the forest in Alaska…
On July 30, 2007, Craig Higgins wrote:
Shooting wolves from planes or any other vantage point is cruel and unusual punishment for these magnificent creatures. I never thought there was much compassion in the Bush administration but this is just plain mean and vindictive.
How would George W. like it if hunters in planes took shots at his dogs from over the White House lawn?
On July 30, 2007, dave wrote:
I sat down and did the math on this hunt. Kill 500 wolves times $9.75 per permit equals $4875.00 the state makes.
Now for the hidden costs. We all know lawsuits will be filed and legal costs will run at about $100,000.00. We also know animal activist groups will start a boycott of Idaho.
Odds favor the potato will be their choice to boycott. Now the potato farmer will lose money — and they have nothing to do with this argument. The loss could be over $1,000,000.00, and I am being conservative on my calculations. And remember the consumers: they lose, they will have to try and get them back after all is said and done. So to make $4875.00 the state will lose $1,100,000.00 plus.
On August 1, 2007, bellasera wrote:
All we can do is fight back and continue to stick to our guns and educate people.
Hey I’m all for hunt the hunters..lets put these guys out in the wilderness and see how long they last as we fly over and shoot at them.
On August 1, 2007, Angela wrote:
Just another example of Bush’s screwed up priorities. Not to mention his typical gutless approach to things. How much more damage can he possibly do for the remainder of his term?
On August 2, 2007, jimmyallen wrote:
it never ceases to amaze me how those who preach animal rights speak out about ‘hunt the hunters’ and such. lets shoot all the hunters so we can all live in harmony.
i realize it is not FoA and that they do not support these morons.
and doesnt reintroducing the wolves in the first place seem to go against animal rights. they are trapped or shot with tranqualizers, caged and transported to an area they are unused to.
i do disagree with aerial wolf hunts, even those in my home state of alaska, but think that animal control is needed in some cases. take a look at new jersey and the deer there. animals dying of starvation is a sick thing to see.
thanks,FoA, for allowing me to voice an opinion.
On August 3, 2007, Nancy wrote:
These wonderful gracious animals deserve to live their lives out as we do ours….in peace. The workings of an every day routine causes enough stress to us as well as these wolves. Their group has a structure, same as ours, and they pick a mate that will live on until one dies.that’s better than our society. Doesn’t that tell of the feelings these animals have? They don’t deserve this kind of treatment and I for one would wish the same treatment on the Bush administrators.the hunters and the farmers….then we, and the wolves, could live in peace.
I pray to God…….stop this useless slaughter.
On August 3, 2007, +Riitz+ wrote:
what the hell?! D:
ok now that guy has crossed the line first he chases my people (Mexicans) and now this?! I am an animal lover and of course this makes me turn angry and sad, and more because wolves are my favorite animals! oh my I live kinda far from that area but hey I hope if I could do something for help, anyways for sure you got my support ;)
On August 4, 2007, Baaboo wrote:
Who or what gave you the right to kill the wolves ?
On August 5, 2007, Chena wrote:
Yet another example of the stupidity and ignorance of the Bush Administration. The reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone had countless benefits on the ecosystem. Elk populations are thriving, due mainly in part to the wolves. Why can’t these stupid ranchers get it through their thick skulls that wolves prey on the sick and weak, therefore allowing healthy animals to flourish? How can governments at the state and national level allow such an atrocity? I can’t believe there are people who would falsify data and support the SENSELESS SLAUGHTER of one of the greatest species on earth, just so they’d feel safer about their livestock or have less competition when hunting. Yep, there’s a whole lotta sense in killing wolves to save the elk so we can kill them instead. Of all the selfish, irresponsible, hateful things to do…
On September 20, 2007, dorothy babb wrote:
if anyone looked at the true beauty of the wolf nature and took the time to learn about them they would see that the wolf only kills for food and usually it is older animals, they are truly beautiful creatures and this act to kill them is disgraceful…. they have an amazing heritage and they deserve to be treated better than this..
On September 23, 2007, Leslie wrote:
You know they say you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat animals.If a person abuses animals they probably do the same thing to people.Doesn’t say much for our president.This is all so sad but hopefully the wolves can be saved if enough people protest against killing them.
On October 2, 2007, Brendan Joshua Morales wrote:
why would any body want to kill such loving animals.the wolf populatiom is not bothering anybody and bush has to destroy what animal lovers love most.this planet would be nothing without animals!i guess people have nothing else to do but to do stupid things like this!we are just going to have to keep on protesting to save these beautiful animals
On October 2, 2007, nicole morales wrote:
how sad that we have nothing in this world to do but kill poor animals that dont have a voice for themselves. God put everthing and everybody on this earth for a reason and to kill them would be a sin. you are our president not god you shouldnt say who lives or dies.
On October 3, 2007, edward wrote:
Didn’t the U.S Government spend millions of our tax dollars on reintroducing wolves back into the environment, thereby helping them avoid extinction?
So why would you, “Mr. Bush” want to kill them off a second time?
On October 3, 2007, Shannon wrote:
This shows you how hateful and stupid our president can be! Maybe, if Bush wasen’t so worried about the wolves attacking humans, then maybe he’d see the truth!
Humans are pushing into wolf terriotory, it’s Bush’s fault we’re having all this wolf masserce! Save the wolves, don’t kill them!
On October 4, 2007, JACK wrote:
How much more can one man do to “P” people off ?……. is there no end to his stupidity and always behind the the American public’s back. Stop the killing of the wolves there must be a better way to to fix whatever problem brought this on…has he ever heard of capture and transfer…. anywhere ?
KILLING…Ugh!
On October 4, 2007, Tami wrote:
Let’s face it - Bush is an a-hole. I am an animal lover, activist, environmentalist and a vegetarian. I think all wildlife should be protected. Bush, however, has not done a thing during his 8 years to help animals or the environment.
Please remember this come election day - after all, we put him in office. If you want someone who will help animals and the environment, look toward Clinton’s wife in 2008. I can pretty much guarantee she won’t permit aerial gunning.
The compassionate people who visit this website need to turn things around before its too late; otherwise, the Earth and all its creatures in it could very well be destroyed - and, as the saying goes - once its gone, its gone!
On October 6, 2007, Shelli wrote:
I am outraged. Just outraged. I am at a total loss for the proper words.
On October 6, 2007, MistyJack wrote:
I am an animal lover. This just outrages me. Killing animals that do so much good for the wildlife is just plain sad. These wolves do not kill just for fun, they kill for food. But they only kill the old, weak, and dying animals. By doing this, the wolves help decrease sickness and disease in the other animals. I do not agree with what the bush administration is trying to do. I don’t even understand where they are coming from. Well you see, cows look like food to them. If someone wants to keep there cows then they should put up a bigger fence. I cannot wait until bush is out of office. he is an idoit. I am just hoping that the next person to become president is much more caring to all things and not just oil and money. errrrr I am so mad that they even want to do all this.
On October 6, 2007, Delilah Figueroa wrote:
Once agin here is our fearless leader, he makes me sick! He will kill these lovely cretures for his own enjoyment! What golfing getting old? Giveing less then hopefull speaches now boring? I am sorry let this boy finish his two years as president then lets find someone with a brain. I don’t know but we have to stop this Bush is taking his power out on something that can’t fight back.
On October 10, 2007, Jaksen Cruger wrote:
Why oh why is he still in Office! In this world there is an abundance of stupid people, Bush being the president of them all. Soon he’s going to say that birds shat on his suit and need to all be killed. Then the ecosystem is going to fall apart to nothing and Bush will be standing alone in his own feces and sucking his thumb.
As much as i want this to happen, i dont too. That would mean the slaughter of many others animal or human RRRRRRR…wolves were here first.
Like i say to everyone. HUMANS are the only creatures on the planet that adapt their surroundings to themselves. No other animal does this. We are the planet’s Virus and Bush is only proving it!
On October 11, 2007, Bobby Rogers wrote:
I cant believe this President Bush is a complete Idiot in my book. We need to stop him now.
On October 13, 2007, naomi-13 wrote:
How can i help stop animal slaughter? I just saw a bulletin with pictures of slaughtered seals and I would really like to help stop the slaughter. Is there any way I can get involved?
On October 19, 2007, Dolores Holmes wrote:
I was once impressed that the government would help to protect and preserve our wildlife and natural beauty in the US. I am no longer impressed. It’s not only the wolves, but the grizzly bears in Yellowstone that will lose their protection, freedom, and lives. Where will there be to see the natural beauty and wildlife at it’s best? Why can’t man appreciate the bounty and beauty we have been given. There are going to be some livestock killed…of course! That’s the way God created predators. We are predators ourselves. At least the wolves don’t kill 700 at a time for fun! It seems hateful and cruel to slaughter such beautiful animals in this way. I really don’t understand why anyone would want to do this. There isn’t even any reasonable answer for murdering in this way. Murder is murder. Killing for the joy of killing, or out of hate. I’m sure they are not going to use the wolves for meat or anything. The wolves aren’t attacking anyone. So, it is murder.
I once read an article that stated “thou shalt not kill” was translated wrong. It meant “thou shalt not murder”. That would make more sense, because murder is an offense. I wish we could learn to stop doing it. Where is the respect or glory in it? Where does it say that we should annihilate other living things because we want to? We should protect them and watch them florish. Why? For our own survival in God’s scheme of things, or, if you prefer, in the environment’s scheme of things. They are our protectors too.
On October 19, 2007, Oddlo wrote:
How could Bush… He’s killing these poor wolves. He’s broken promises and hearts. What else can he do?? He told us that he’d bring our troops home by August of 2007- He lied and broken so many hearts- I wanna see him go to every doorstep to tell the loved ones of the fallen soldiers that their not comming home, face the children and look them in the eye and tell them that mommy or daddy’s not coming home… And now he has to go and destoy more families- oh wait, there’s a difference, now he’s picking on wolves too!? Bush has lost everyone’s trust. Here’s a quote: “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings , we are still savages”
- Thomas Alva Edison
On October 24, 2007, leopardgirl wrote:
I can’t believe them! I personally love wolves and think killing and poaching is pure evil!
On November 6, 2007, gena fontaine wrote:
MSG SENT TO WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES,US DEPT.
To Whom It May Concern,
IF your organization, that we, (I), as tax payers pay for, were to trap and move
the Grey Wolf to areas in need of depopulation of animal over growth. Such as the
White Tail Deer in the Northeastern States; i.e. New York and, Connecticut. Beaver in Massachusetts, and Bear in New Jersey. I, we, would be happy to, as taxpayers, nod an O.K. to move them to areas of ecological need, as aforementioned. HOWEVER, we, I, have already paid to grow the Grey Wolf, and NOW are paying to eliminate……..
A mere $9.75 for a license to KILL is hardly a return on what has been spent on re-populating the North Western States. IT IS PATHETIC, POOR MANAGEMENT OF WILDLIFE, AND HARD WORKING AMERICANS MONEY, FOR WHAT?
p.s. WHO’S PAYING FOR THE HELICOPTERS?!
Gena Fontaine
Wildlife and Domestic Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation, NJ/FL
[Blog editors’ note: Wolves have been manipulated and hammered far too much already. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service should be pressed to keep their hands off wolves, bears, deer and beavers. The “overgrowth” belongs to us.]
On November 28, 2007, C. Ennis wrote:
I believe the cost for a permit is about $10.00 I think we, all of us here, should buy them… January 8 09 can’t come soon enough.
On December 3, 2007, Heather wrote:
All animals belong on this earth more than human beings. To kill these beautiful creatures is wrong.
On January 4, 2008, L. wrote:
Help the wolves!!!This is not right and these amazing creatures deserve to run free with happiness and without the fear to be killed by hunters!
L.
On January 4, 2008, L. wrote:
Help the wolves! This is not right- wolves deserve to run wild without the fear of being killed by hunters!The Lord did not put animals upon the Earth only to have them killed.Help the wolves!
On January 8, 2008, livia wrote:
help wolves! stop the slaughtering stop the killing, its all useless and hurtful to the wolves and also to we animal lovers who actually care unlike mean and nasty killers who caused this usless mess!
On January 14, 2008, Larry Pringle wrote:
I voted for animal killer Bush and now after hearing this, I regret my actions from the bottom of my heart. We must do everything in our power to stop this viscious killing of a magnificent creature as a Wolf.
On February 7, 2008, JM wrote:
The wolf population has exceded the limits that were set for successful reintroduction. It’s time to lift the federal protection of them. Open slaughter of them should be prohibited as well as ariel shooting. But I see no reason why they shouldn’t issue tags for them and allow hunters to persue them.
[Blog editors’ note: Might someone argue that
removing legal sanctions against killing overpopulated Homo sapiens should be advanced? One might issue tags for retrieving nuisance, two-legged hunters? Shooting wolves for reasons of population control is a lame idea, and parallel arguments are offered here to highlight the wrongheaded view that humans should interfere with wolf biology, or anything else that promotes deliberate harm to these long persecuted animals.]
On February 9, 2008, Lauren wrote:
I am so depressed that wolves are being killed! They are wild,free animals,that don’t deserve to be killed time and time again by hunters. It is heartbreaking to realize that humans are making wolves die. Poor wolves,let them run free!Don’t let them be in harm’s way.
On February 11, 2008, J. Lea Smith wrote:
Save Idaho’s wolf population from hunting.
On February 18, 2008, Mary Cathey wrote:
Leave the wolves alone! We all know that the Bush Administration is anti environment but pro hunting, oil and lumber corporations and anything that destroys the earth and animals. Now they are after the wolves, what a shame as the wolf pack is a very tight knit family. What happens to the pups when moms and dads are killed? Will there be other wolf family members to care for them? We spend the money to relocate them then decide to kill them off. What a sham! Let the wolves roam free and enjoy the country they were born to roam, hunt and raise their young. We don’t need the hunters and ranchers to dictate the control of the wolves, their percentage is low compared to the people that want them protected.
[Editor’s note: Right you are. We’d like to see ranchers’ authority diminished through a permanent boycott of ranch products. Let them convert to vegetable gardens, and let the wolves be. ]
On February 24, 2008, Tom Molson wrote:
It is important to pay attention here that 35 wolves intoduced in 1995 have already multiplied to 1200 in only 12 years.
There is no such thing as a balance of nature if left alone, only a boom and bust.These carnivourious predators have no predator to keep them in check, other than man. If these wolves are not pursued to some degree, and are left to proginate, it will only be a matter of another 10 years, and thier numbers will be to that degree that they will not only be pulling down elk, and domestic livestock, but also a number of campers, and hikers. You could pray that these folks not be a member of your family, or you could also do something about it.
[Blog editors; note: Little Red Riding Hood
must still be your bedtime story, Tom. Get a grip. Your wolf-fearing-hating fantasies are popular among wolf hunters but they don’t hold any weight over here. We think the human population needs to be kept in check, and that should start with abundant measures of birth control. Then, perhaps, there will be habitat left for the animals with whom we’ve co-evolved. And domestic livestock? Stop eating them, for starters, and leave the elk the heck alone, too.]
On March 3, 2008, L. wrote:
Why are they doing this terrible thing? It is disgracful and killing the poor wolves who have done nothing to us. I hope that whoever becomes president will help these magnificent creatures. Wolves should roam happily in the wild without the fear of being shot by a human. If this keeps going on, then we will have no wolves left and millions of people will be sad like me. Please help the wolves and save their race and habitat. Help the cool marvolous amazing animals. GO WOLVES!
On March 11, 2008, MTJ wrote:
Have you ever had half of your calf crop killed by coyotes? How about a $5000 horse used to work stock break his leg in a hole rooted up by a feral hog? This kind of stuff does regularly happen and makes it necessary to take measures to control out of control pest populations when normal hunting isn’t enough. Just as new understanding of wolves ensures there will never be wholesale wolf extinctions ever again, a hunting season for wolves is equally unavoidable.
[Blog editors’ note: What’s unavoidable is the flow of inane comments about calves, moose or caribou being “crops,” as though animals are ears of corn. Hunters and ranchers are pests, and controlling their havoc and outbursts on this blog is a constant chore. Alaska’s officials plan to shoot wolves this Spring from helicopter gunships under the guise of producing more caribou calves for two-legged hunters. What a hellish scheme that offers violence a civic mission. Leave the wolves, calves, horses, feral hogs, moose and caribou alone, and meanwhile stick to vegetable crops.
On March 12, 2008, MTJ wrote:
Vegtable crops cause more damage, more pollution, and more harm than hunting ever has. The ammount of resources used, animals and people abused to grow those crops is staggering.
[Blog editors; note: Oh, please. Tell that to a duck who has just had its wings blown off. Hunters just make stuff up to deflect the criticism from most of us who view hunters as dangerous nutters.
On March 12, 2008, MTJ wrote:
You may also be surprised to know there is a growing movement amongst hunters to protect wolves, support a diverse healthy ecosystems, and ban ATVs from public lands. Animals eat other animals. As much as many people would like to deny it, humans are animals. Animals have evolved various traits for hunting and to defend from being hunted. Wolves have their teeth, the hawk it’s talons and beak, the deer it’s ears and eyesight. Humans have evolved (and survived on) their ability to make and use tools.
[Blog editors’ note: And idiots have helicopters and aircraft for the purpose of shooting wolves from the air. Let your hunters sound off against that. The silence is deafening. ]
On March 14, 2008, deniseburke wrote:
have a million person walk fdr the animals in wasinhton d.c. we need to save these animals from being killed the public needs to know about these crimes against the wolves etc.
On April 1, 2008, jessica wrote:
I’m not surprised by “Governor” Bush’s ignorance. But the Fish & Wildlife Service should be ashamed of themselves!
How could you just roll over, and sell out like this?$?
What is your real purpose? Who/what are you really working for?
HYPOCRITES !
On April 14, 2008, Kimberly Shirley wrote:
Just how many orphaned pups will be left after the slaughtering stops, if it stops. And, how are they going monitor the so called limit…are “they” going out there to count the dead bodies??? If they can’t have a new “human” war, they start a “nature” war with our beloved pedators. Who is the true disgusting predator here?!
On April 14, 2008, Kimberly Shirley wrote:
And another thing….I once worked for a “processing” house..of course, I quit, but my point is this: to make our sausage…we kill 4000 hogs daily…daily!!! And, to have chicken for dinner…we kill 10,000 daily….not mention just how many of those defensless animals get killed just to be thrown away as “useless meat”!!!!! These numbers are just from one plant! It killed my soul when I saw these facts first hand, we truly are no better than the adminstration of our country. Humans are nature’s worst enemy, bar none.
On April 23, 2008, L. wrote:
Why are these people killing these wild and wonderful creatures? It really is not right and the wolves never did anything to the humans. [if the wolves prey on some of the farmer’s animals] The wolves are just trying to survive in their shrinking habitat. If you stop and think about it, lots of the land that we dwell on now used to be uninhabited by humans, but only by the wonderful creatures that God put on the Earth. Maybe a wolf isn’t is not your favorite animal but just try and help them. And help all the other animals that are losing their habitat and their families due to dreadful and mad hunting. HELP ANIMALS , INCLUDING THE WOLVES!
On April 26, 2008, L.H. wrote:
Wolves are amazing creatures that the Lord has set upon this Earth. It is terribly wrong to kill them when they are just trying to survive. It is truly heartbreaking to know that all these poor animals are being killed. God did not put wolves or any other animal on the Earth just to have it hunted down untill it is endangered. Help all Animals, including wolves!
On May 7, 2008, Ev Stone wrote:
i was just wondering - have there been any updates on the killing? did the law pass? has this actually started? are there any numbers for the deceased?
to get this issue in front of more people - a new story or report would be helpful …
[Blog editors’ note: Unfortunately, federal protection of wolves was lifted March 28, and since states took over management, 37 wolves have been shot to death. A lawsuit has been filed to put wolves back on the Endangered Species Act list, and to block trophy hunts planned this fall. It’s a bloody drag, for sure. ]