Interior chief OKs taking gray wolf off endangered list in Nort...

Wolves are our fellow top predators and should be off limits; humans should not be allowed to kill wolves except in the same circumstances as we are legally allowed to kill other humans. People who insist on having domesticated livestock are 100% responsible to protect these less-able animals from wolves and other native predators, without killing them. It has also been found that decimating wolves to try to increase the populations of game species we eat doesn't work for us, them, or for the plant communities these game species eat. Aldo Leopold knew that decades ago. The real enemy in Wyoming isn't the wolf, but the alien European culture.

It is pretty sad when one thinks how these beautiful animals have been decimated. They have every right to live and roam in their natural habitat. One would think that people would understand the vital role these predators play in the wild, and take precautions to protect domesticated animals.
A crying shame.

can't wait for wolf season !!

Jean606 wrote:

Wolves are our fellow top predators and should be off limits; humans should not be allowed to kill wolves except in the same circumstances as we are legally allowed to kill other humans. People who insist on having domesticated livestock are 100% responsible to protect these less-able animals from wolves and other native predators, without killing them. It has also been found that decimating wolves to try to increase the populations of game species we eat doesn't work for us, them, or for the plant communities these game species eat. Aldo Leopold knew that decades ago. The real enemy in Wyoming isn't the wolf, but the alien European culture.

'People who insist on having domesticated livestock...'?

I guess that means people who eat the products thereof don't bear any responsibility, just the rancher, is that it? Do you really think that ranchers can afford the manpower and other resources necessary to babysit steers on open range? Are you willing to advocate a market system that would make it possible for the ranchers to hire the thousands of people required? To build wolf-proof fencing around untold thousands of acres of range? I suspect the McDonald's Dollar Menu would no longer contain beef.

And I guess that European culture so alien and evil in Wyoming is fine in Illinois, eh? I would imagine that your presence there has had a detrimental effect on former top predators in that environment; I suggest you get to work leveling Chicago. Once you've returned your own environment to a totally wild state you'll have the moral standing to justify that statement, but not before.

And for the record, I live in Wyoming, and am against the hunting of wolves. It just so happens I'm also against self-righteous idiotic crap.