Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Long Live the Wolves


Wolf 253 brings up the rear in the Druid Peak in Yellowstone back in 2004. Copyright © Kim Kaiser

The Bush Administration delisted the Wolf last week and the same day three of them were shot and killed outside of Daniel, Wyoming. One of the Wolves killed was known as "253" and had a long history, he had a limp and was the one that made it to Utah several years ago. You can read more about him here. The Wolves that were reintroduced back into Yellowstone and Central Idaho have done better than anyone expected and amazingly they have not eaten any school children as was predicted (there is no recorded human ever killed by a wolf in North America) . They have killed livestock and all of the owners were compensated for their losses. I hope as a society we will have the wisdom and foresight to keep some of the wild things on this continent that we live on.

5 comments:

mena said...

Amen Brother!!!!!Regan & Mena

tiffy girl said...

Hey Bri, you remember that sign at the bar in Salmon?
I took a picture of it when I was working for Salmon air it says "You can take your tree hugging,granola eating,politically correct, earth worshipping, subaru driving, ponytailed,sandal wearing in the winter, wolf loving ass , somewhere else." Bunch a wolf lovers they got up there in the ID
We read a book last night about wolves and Max has been walking around howling all day. ow ow owhoooooooooooo
Pollywog

wild murdocks said...

what a bunch of granola, wolf-loving radicals.

;)

Unknown said...

good, good, about time the damn wolves are delisted, i mean, they eat all the trophy bucks.

McKell said...

We talked about this today in environmental ethics. It was interesting...